News and Notes. 115 



Forest School was in the U. S. Forest Service for some time. 

 * After graduate studies in Europe he became state forester of 

 Connecticut, a position he has held for the last four years. 



With the opening of the British Columbia legislature Premier 

 McBride announced that the government may establish a bureau 

 of forestry with an expert at its head to look after the timber in 

 this province and take up such questions as reforestation, etc. 



The senior class of the Yale Forest School, numbering thirty 

 students, will leave New Haven, Connecticut, about March first 

 for Doucette, Tyler County, Texas, where they will study the 

 lumber operations of the Thompson Brothers Lumber Company, 

 secure final practice in surveying, map making and the estimation 

 of timber, and investigate the possibilities of forest management 

 in the region. 



It has been the custom of the Forest School for several years 

 to conduct the work of the spring term of the Senior Year on 

 some large lumber operation. In 1906 the work was carried on at 

 Waterville, N. H., on the lands of the International Paper Com- 

 pany. The spring term of 1907 was spent in southern Missouri 

 on the lands owned by the Missouri Lumber and Mining Com- 

 pany. The class of 1908 was in Central Alabama on the hold- 

 ing of the Kaul Lumber Company. 



The selection of Texas for the coming season's work is due to 

 an invitation extended by Mr. J. Lewis Thompson, of Houston, 

 Texas, Manager of the extensive Thompson Lumber interests in 

 Texas and likewise an enthusiastic advocate of forestry. Mr. 

 Thompson is a member of the Forest Conservation Committee of 

 the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association and also is greatly 

 interested in the formulation of a proper forest policy for the 

 state of Texas. 



Arrangements have been made for the construction of camp 

 buildings near the center of one of the large timber tracts of the 

 Company, where the students will live during the greater part of 

 their stay in the region. 



The trip wll be made from New York to New Orleans by boat 

 and from thence to Doucette by rail. It is probable that one or 

 more cypress operations will be visited while the students are en 

 route to Texas. 



