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feet, and a yield in merchantable material of 20,000 board feet. 

 Limited areas carry 100,000 board feet to the acre, and 40,000 

 to 50,000 feet over considerable areas is common. The timber 

 is accessible, of excellent quality, comparatively easy to log, and 

 close to water transportation. The presence of available water 

 power will facilitate the development of wood-using industries. 

 While the Chugach Forest has less favorable conditions for tim- 

 ber growth and a less heavy stand than the Tongass, neverthe- 

 less in it there is a large amount of merchantable Sitka spruce 

 and hemlock, which will have an increasing importance for rail- 

 road construction, mining, and other industrial purposes. Large 

 areas have an average stand of 15,000 to 20,000 board feet to the 

 acre, and the best run as high as 50,000 feet. The volume of 

 timber on the two forests is estimated to be between sixty and 

 eighty billion board feet, about one-eighth of the total estimated 

 quantity on all the forests." 



Representative Lever, of Southern California, has introduced 

 in the House a bill, the purpose of which is to extend to the em- 

 ployes of the U. S. Forest Service the provisions of the act 

 granting to certain employes of the United States the right to 

 receive compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their 

 employment. The purpose of the bill is to give compensation to 

 those employes of the Service who are injured while fighting 

 forest fires. 



The Santa Rita Grazing Reserve near the Coronado Forest in 

 Arizona, and the Jornodo Grazing Reserve in New Mexico, for- 

 merly under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 have been turned over to the Forest Service for the continuance 

 of the experiments. Grazing Inspector James T. Jardine and 

 Grazing Examiner C. E. Fleming, of the Washington office, have 

 been inspecting these grazing experimental areas during the past 

 summer. 



The annual meeting of the Society of American Foresters was 

 held on January 22, 1916, in Washington, D. C. 



The forenoon and the late afternoon were devoted to the 

 reports of the various committees. During the early part of the 

 afternoon an open meeting was held at which the following papers 

 were presented : "The Possibilities of Silviculture in America," 



