SCT NOTES. 



9/5/13 



Switzerland has four cooperative associations for the 

 growing and marketing of forest products. 



The U. S. forest service is using gasoline rai 

 speeders for fire protection purposes* They follow up trains 

 on steep grades where sparks thrown out by forced draft are 

 likely to start fires along the right of way, 



Forest officers have fov.nd thr\t high power telescopes 

 are not al\vays satisfactory in fire-lookout work. In some lo- 

 calities heat vibrations in the atmosphere are so magnified by 

 the glass that clearer vision can be had with the unaided eye. 



At the national conservation congress to be held in 

 Washington, November 18-20, the subject of forestry will be han- 

 dled by a main committee, with sub-committees which will report 

 on federal and state forest policies, forest taxation, fires, 

 lumbering, planting, utilization, forest schools, and scientific 

 forest investigations. 



21k have been found in the Uinta nation?,! forest, Utah, 

 for the first time in many years. Since they are not from ship- 

 ments from the Jackson Hole country to neighboring forests, the 

 state and federal officials are gratified rvt this -Apparent in- 

 crease in big game, as the result of protection. 



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