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The war department is reforesting a large area 

 near Fort Bayard, New Mexico, for use as an army hospital 



site, 



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The light house reservations on the great lakes are 

 able to grow all the white cedar needed for spar buoys in 

 their district. 



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The Kaibab and the Coconino national forests adjoin 

 each other, Yet it takes from two to three days to go from 

 one to the other across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, 



There are several bands of the Persian fat-tailed 

 sheep on the national forests of southern Utah* The large 

 fat tail sometimes weighs ae much as forty pounds, .and, like 

 the hump on the camel, is a reserve supply of nourishment 

 v/hen food is lacking. 



Dr. B. 33. Fernow, dean of the forest school of the 

 university of Toronto, and Bristow Adams, of the U, S. for- 

 est service, have just been elected president and secretary, 

 respectively, of the society of American foresters, the only 

 organization of professional foresters in the western hemis- 

 phere, 



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