UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FORESTER 



Published in the months of November, February, April and June, each year, by 

 the Forestry Club of the University of Michigan. 



Office: Forestry Club Room U. of M. 



Subscription Price $1.OO per year 



Entered as second-class matter December 13, 1912, at the post office at Ann 

 Arbor, Michigan, under the Act of August 24, 1912. 



Managing Editor, George C. Caron. 

 Business Manager, Walter E. Bond. 



TWO SMOKERS AND GOOD FELLOWSHIP. 



There seems to be nothing like a pipe, 

 a cigar, or a cigarette, according to in- 

 dividual taste, and "sinkers" or "wien- 

 ers" and coffee to cement a group of 

 students together. These elements 

 have certainly helped greatly in welding 

 the Club into a solid unit, in enlarging 

 it to the promising proportions it now 

 holds, and in bringing together the For- 

 estry students of every class into a For- 

 estry Department. The Club has held 

 two smokers so far this year, and it 

 seems as if every Forester in the univer- 

 sity from Professor Roth down to the 

 Freshman who merely has a "hunch" 

 that he will "take up Forestry," has been 

 on deck. According to our calendar the 

 first one occurred on December 3rd and 

 the second one on January 21st. 



At the first affair O. F. Schaefer gave 

 a short talk on "Winter Reconnaissance," 

 based on some of his work in the Lake 

 Superior country for the Canadian Pa- 

 cific. In introduction, he showed the 

 uselessness of looking to Canada for our 

 future timber supply after our own 



should be exhausted; with the single 

 exception of pulp wood, which is the 

 only kind of timber which that country 

 has more of than we have. He told of 

 the vast areas lying between Lake Su- 

 perior and James Bay, classed on the 

 government maps as timber lands, which 

 often contained nothing more than small 

 spruce and tamarack, birch, poplar, and 

 jack pine. Also of the great areas of 

 unknown extent which have been burn- 

 ed over, often repeatedly. How, when 

 burned over only once, such areas usu- 

 ally reclothe themselves with second 

 growth birch, poplar and jack pine; but 

 how when the fires are repeated, the 

 soil is usually entirely destroyed, the 

 bare rock being left. As to his cruising, 

 the object of which was mainly to locate 

 tie timber, he said that this railroad is 

 now using ties of pine, spruce, tama- 

 rack, and hemlock, treated or other- 

 wise, with a view to cutting down tie 

 imports from the "States." The cruis- 

 ing was done very extensively, and in 

 accordance with the methods used in the 



