i8o Forestry Quarterly 



conservative manner. At the same time, a stretch along Saginaw 

 Bay is being used and continually being developed as a summer 

 resort, because of unusual facilities for boating, bathing, and 

 fishing. 



The nursery and plantation work is intended to supply ma- 

 terial for the complete restocking of the more or less denuded 

 lands and at the same time to .serve for experimental purposes 

 in determining the relative value of different species and also in 

 the encouragement of forest planting among the people of the 

 district by furnishing an object lesson and by supplying plant 

 material at cost, or even free of charge. 



The first year's work involved the setting out of about 38,000 

 trees, representing 16 species of conifers and 5 species of hard- 

 woods. In addition, a nursery was established, in which the 

 seed of a number of different species of hardwoods and conifers 

 were planted under very favorable conditions. Besides the forest 

 plantation and regular nursery work, about 2000 trees and shrubs 

 were set out for decorative purposes, and here again the idea of 

 experimentation, the determination of hardiness, and the adapt- 

 ability to locality of a variety of shrubs, formed important points 

 of consideration. 



During the summer of 1905 a detailed survey and division of 

 the land into 40 acre lots was made by Messrs. Nelson Macduff 

 and George Thorward of the University, and a detailed topo- 

 graphic map with a forest description by compartments prelimi- 

 nary to a regular ^vorking plan, has resulted. This spring the 

 work was continued, tlt^ nursery increased, and an additional 

 10,000 trees set out. An attempt was made to stop sand-blows 

 and moving sands which had become annoying along the beach, 

 by seeding them to Black lyocust. The greater part of the seed- 

 bed work involves White Pine and Western Yellow Pine, thus 

 making this station on Lake Huron the second point in the State 

 where the value of Western Yellow Pine is to be determined. 



The work of the Forestry Department of the University of 

 Michigan on its Saginaw Forestry Farm, the estate given to the 

 University by Hon. Arthur Hill, was continued this spring with 

 the assistance of the classes in forestry under the direction of 

 Assistant Professor Mulford. The work of establishing regular, 

 forest plantations was continued as well as experimental work 

 being undertaken in cooperation with U. S. Forest Service. 



The forest planting of this year consists of a total of about 



