SERVICE NOTES FOR JANUARY. 



LAW. 



WILLIAM BINKLEY AND CHARLES PURDY WERE ARRESTED in Los Angeles, through 

 the efforts of Supervisor Robert E. Miller, of the Teton Division of the Yellowstone, 

 for unlawfully killing elk, and were bound over by the United States commissioner 

 for trial before the United States court in the southern district of Idaho. At Poca- 

 tello they received a sentence of six months' imprisonment and $200 fine. Later 

 they were rearrested by the park authorities for a similar offense, and were tried at 

 the park court. On September 12 they were sentenced to three months' imprison- 

 ment. In this latter case Mr. Miller was also a principal witness. On November 12 

 Charles Isobel and Oscar Adams, who had been associated with Binkley and Purdy, 

 were indicted at Cheyenne for killing elk at the north end of Jacksons Hole and 

 along the boundary of Yellowstone Park. 



DENDROLOGY. 



Field Photographs 



Field officers whose work requires that the development of negatives and printing 

 of photographs be done in the field, are permitted to incur the expense necessary for 

 this purpose. Such expenditures will be approved of by -the Forester only in such 

 cases as, in the judgment of the officer, the proper dispatch of official business de- 

 mands that pictures be procured immediately. The officer incurring such expenses 

 will be required in each instance to show that important results would have been 

 lost had he waited to procure the pictures through the Washington photographic 

 laboratory. When, in the judgment of the field officer, there is sufficient time in 

 which to have the developing and printing done at the Washington laboratory, this 

 course should always be followed. 



BRANCH OF SILVICULTURE. 

 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT. 



Approximate Diameter Limits 



It is extremely important that purchasers of National Forest timber realize clearly 

 that the diameter limits agreed upon are merely approximate. This should be called 

 to the attention of purchasers, and the method of marking fully explained. In order 

 to impress applicants still further with this fact, Clause 8 as now given in Form 202, 

 pages 3 and 4, should be stricken out in all applications and contracts and the follow- 

 ing clause substituted: 



The approximate minimum diameter limits at a point 4 feet from the ground 



to which living trees are to be cut is for and for , but 



trees above these diameters may be reserved for seed or protection, and mer- 

 chantable trees below these diameters may be marked at the discretion of the 

 Forest officer. 



This is intended to show that the limits named are to serve only as a guide in 

 marking. Owing to the varying needs of different species, and in most cases to the 

 necessity for reducing the proportion of inferior species in the stand, it would be 



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