500 Forestry Quarterly. 



portant business questions intimately related to the profession of 

 forestry and too often slighted in the past by the strict silvicul- 

 turist. 



J. D. G. 



The Forest Club Annual, Volume IV, 1912. The University 

 of Nebraska. 159 Pp. 



This publication emanating from the students' organization of 

 the forest school of the University of Nebraska contains a number 

 of very interesting articles worthy of a wider circle of readers 

 than are likely to be reached. The papers are furnished, we take 

 it, mostly by outsiders. 



Mr. Sampson's article on grazing investigations undertaken by 

 the Forest Service sheds light on the importance of these investi- 

 gations as regards the future both of the range and the forest. So 

 far, it appears the reproduction of Sugar Pine and Western Yel- 

 low Pine is not seriously affected by the presence of sheep or 

 cattle. "Where serious injury has resulted it is rather due to 

 faulty handling, such as premature grazing and overgrazing." 

 Indeed as a means of preventing running fires the author considers 

 moderate grazing an advantage. 



In a paper enumerating the tree species, native and exotic, to be 

 found in Omaha, the respectable list of 171 appears. Interesting 

 especially is the report of thrifty conifers of considerable height 

 Abies, Cupressus, Dammara, Juniperus, Larix, Picea, in several 

 and Pinus in many species, Pseudotsuga, even Taxodium, Thuya 

 and Tsuga are represented. 



The "forest conditions of Northwestern Nebraska" develops 

 the region as a bluff mountain country with pine clad slopes, three 

 types of Pinus ponderosa forest, the illustrations reminding one of 

 Rocky Mountain scenery. 



Other articles of note are a description of Methods of Recon- 

 naissance, which gives cost of various methods (rather im- 

 perfectly) ; Forest Roads and Trails, also with costs of actual 

 operations, which in the absence of practical literature on the sub- 

 ject is very welcome; Some Permanent Sample Plot Studies, 

 bringing interesting data in Jeffrey Pine and White Fir repro- 

 duction ; and Notes on Bark Structure, by Theodor Krueger, 



