Aiiiiii ri.i I i:.\i, Aj'i'i:«)ri:iArioN lui.i., i •-'• '^1;) 



Mr. Andkkson. How intmy «»f tlifwr nrr tht'rr< 



ColonrI (luKKi-KY. Al)(>ut 20 at VVallncp nnd alioiit ."iO in th^ 



coin«'forv »il St. Miirifs. A |)ri»visior» in flic Mppnipriiition ,iri for 

 19'2I iuitlii>ri/.tM| (lit* iisr of S'iOO itt nmrk llir ^;ru\('-> ui \V»illin-c nrul 

 that was doinv Wo luivo suhsiMiiiiMitlv foiuul that thr ^;rnvi»s of 

 theso fin' (i^jlitrrs at St. Marios. Idaho. )iavr hoon utiinikrkoii, arwl jt 

 seoins a|)f)n>priato to nso a small ainotinf f>f inoricv to itiiprovi' tho 

 appoaraiKT »if tho «;rav«'s aixl to },'i\r (ln'm sonic sintahlc niarkitij; in 

 conunonioration of tho fact that those in<'n lost thoir liroM in tho 

 puhli*' sorvico in pi-otcct in^ the national forests in that rojjion. 

 That is tin' purpose of this item. 



Mr. lU < MANAN. That may he lc«;islution, but I am in favor of it. 



KKillTIN'O ANI> ritKVKNTlN<; FORKST FIRFS. 



I Colonel (iiJKKLKY. We lia\(' also asked for rjew lan<;iiaj;e in the 

 item on pai^e 14<). for fi^htinj^ and prevent inj; forest firos. - No 

 chnn<;e is proposed in the amount uf this item. althou<;h it hjis hoon 

 pro,ven inade(juate hy the experience of a fjjood many years. It 

 rocjuiros us to onorato on a defiriency basis, hut tho conimittoo which 

 handles the doticioncy appropriations has understood our situation 

 verv fully and has i;iven us sympathetic support. 



We are askinj; for authoiily licre to expend not excoodincj S'io.OOO 

 of tho amount ajipropriated for meotin<; emerj^encios arising; from 

 attacks of tind)or-Killin^ insects. Down to 1920. the lan*;ua}xe of 

 this it<'m authori/.(><l tlio use of the money for "other* unforeseen 

 emergencies" as well as for li«:htin»; (ires. In the hill for the fiscal 

 vear of 1921 the ''other unforeseen emergencies" disappeared, and I 



jihavo heon unahle to recall. Mr. Chairman, just why that particular 



'' language was dropped out. 



|| TIMHEK-KILI.INO INSECT IN VK.STKJATIONS. 



The situation is this: We do m)t conduct any technical work on 

 forest insects, as that is done for us by the Bureau of Kntom«»loc;y. 

 But from time to time we have these outbreaks of timber-destroying 

 insects. |>articularly the pine-hark beetles, which often assume very 

 Norious proportions. For example, in southern Oregon a serious 

 MUthroak of this pest occurred last year, the beetles operatin^: both 

 on private land and forest reserve land and t<» some extent on Indian 

 reservations. The situation was such that the State <^f Oregon 

 passed a law c(unpelling private owners to clean up their holdings 

 imder certain conditions, and Congress passed a special deficiency 

 'f S1.')0.0()0 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary 

 of the Interior to clean up the (iovornment holdings. 

 ; That particular situation has been provided f«)r, but we have three 

 I other points to-day whore the pine beetle is liable to become danger- 

 ous. One of them is on the Kaihah Plateau, on land which lies partly 

 in theCirand Canytm National Park and partly in the Kaihah National 

 Forest. The Forest Service and the National Parks Service put their 

 odds and ends of ai)nroj)riations together last year and succeeded in 

 getting .?2..")(K) availanle for attacking that outbreak before it rea<'hed 

 lai'ge proportitnis. We will have to do some clean-up w«)rk there 

 next spring. Those outbreaks occur at one point or another nearly 



