576 Forestry Quarterly 



making paper which is even better than that which has usually 

 been employed for this purpose. 



According to a statement of Secretary of Agriculture Houston, 

 who made an extended trip through the National Forests, the 

 Forest Service has built nearly 3,000 miles of road and 21,000 

 miles of trail to make the forests accessible. In a published 

 letter, the highest praise is meted out by the Secretary to the 

 Forest Service for the efficiency, loyalty and devotion of its 

 members and administration. 



An aviator has been employed in Wisconsin to detect and 

 report on forest fires. L. A. Vilas, an aviator, is equipped with 

 a powerful machine, which enables him to rise to a height of 1,000 

 feet in a few minutes. From this height he can survey some 

 200,000 acres of forest land. Any sign of fire is at once reported 

 to the forest rangers. It is hoped by this means to prevent the 

 outbreak of serious fires. The difficulty, however, of using aero- 

 planes for such work is the problem of landing places. 



A new position has been created in Wisconsin, namely that of 

 State Entomologist, for the purpose of nursery and orchard 

 inspection and administration of laws governing insecticides and 

 fungicides. Professor J. G. Saunders, with Dr. S. B. Fracker 

 as assistant, has been appointed to the office. Both gentlemen 

 were formerly on the staff of the State College of Agriculture. 



Six graduate students in the Department of Forestry, Cornell 

 University, have recently completed a detailed working plan for 

 a 3500-acre tract in the Catskill Mountains. This is the second 

 season's work done on the tract, the first season's consisting of 

 a detailed forest survey, the results of which were published by 

 the New York State Conservation Commission as Bulletin 11. 

 The present year's work secured additional facts necessary for 

 the preparation of a detailed plan of forest management. 



This tract lies at the headwaters of the well-known Esopus 

 River, the main feeder of New York City's mammoth Ashokan 

 reservoir, and hence is of great value as a protection to this and 

 other streams arising in the vicinity. The tract is divided into 



