Ranger Meeting at Cloquet 



THE annual meeting of district forest rangers, held at 

 Cloquet, November 1st and 2d, was an interesting event. 

 The fourteen district rangers were present, in addi- 

 tion to a number of other forest officers, including the state 

 forester and assistant state forester. 



The sawmill city of Cloquet is a fitting place in which to 

 hold a meeting of foresters. Although Cloquet has a popu- 

 lation of only 7,000, it is the greatest timber manufacturing 

 city in the United States. Last year, between 260 and 270 

 million feet of lumber and other wood products were manu- 

 factured there. The city has five large sawmills, a paper 

 mill, a box factory, and a large tie and post yard. Situated 

 on the St. Louis river twenty-five miles west of Duluth, it .is 

 ideally located for a lumber town. Logs, pulp-wood and cedar 

 products are driven down the St. Louis river and its tribu- 

 taries the Cloquet, Whiteface, Paleface, Water Hen, Flood- 

 wood, East Swan and Partridge rivers. There is an enormous 

 timber-producing region on the headwaters of these streams, 

 and because of the character of the country a great deal of 

 this area will always be producing timber. 



On a Trip to the Cloquet Forest Experiment Station. 



On the second day of the meeting, some of the citizens of 

 Cloquet took the foresters on an automobile excursion through 

 the Cloquet forest experiment station, three miles west of 

 town. This is a tract of 2,700 acres, upon which the state is 

 conducting experiments in forestry, just as it is conducting 

 agricultural experiments at the agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions. 



The work of the Minnesota Forest Service for the past sea- 

 son was gone over in detail by the rangers. There were dis- 

 cussions of improvement work, trails, lookout towers, canoe 



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