FOREST NOTES 



8/1/13. 



An organization of scientists who are engaged in 

 the study of forest insects has recently teen formed in Wash- 

 ington. 



Pencil manufacturers are "buying up old red cedar 

 fence rails, in Tennessee and southward, to "be made into lead 

 pencils. 



The Buffalo herd on the Wichita national forest, 

 Oklahoma, now numbers 48, 10 calves having been born this 

 year. When the buffalo were introduced on the Wichita in 

 1907 there were 15 head. 



A conservation movement has been started in China, 

 said to be richer in natural resources than any other nation. 

 The Chinese use the word "conservancy* 1 Instead of conservation. 

 One of their plans- for the Hwai River contemplates dredging and 

 tillage together to control floods. 



The steel towers that support electric power trans- 

 mission lines are being increasingly used* by forest rangers 

 as fire lookout stations on national forests. With the har- 

 nessing of the mountain streams a network of these lines is 

 gradually being woven over the forests and in the absence 

 of other convenient lookouts, the rangers find the steel 

 towers helpful in their fire patrol work. 



