12-'30/14 



forest fires in British Columbia covered more than 

 300,000 acres during the past year. 



It is reported that there is a big market in Hawaii 

 or box shocks for packing canned pineapple and pineapple 

 juice . 



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During the past two years forest officers have 

 killed nearly 9,000 predatory animals, more than three-fourths 

 of v/hich were coyotes. 



The aboretum established at Washington in Hock Creek 

 Park, through cooperation between the forest service and the 

 District of Columbia, now contains 1,200 trees, comprising 92 

 different species. 



There were 400 fires this year on the national for- 

 ests of Utah, southern Idaho, western Wyoming, and IJevada, or 

 15 more than in the most disastrous season of 1910. Yet the 

 cost of extinguishing them was only one-third and the damage 

 only one-thirtieth of that of the earlier year. The differ- 

 ence is due to better organization now, and to more roads, 

 trails, an.:"- telephones. 



