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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ONE MILLION CORDS OF ALASKA 

 PULPWOOD SOLD. 



One million cords of pulpwood on the 

 Tongass National Forest, Alaska, has just 

 been sold by the Forest Service of the 

 United States Department , of Agriculture 

 to the Alaskan-American Paper Corpora- 

 Ition. The timber is located along the east 

 shore of the Behm Canal, Revillagigedo 

 Island, about 32 miles from Ketchikan, the 

 .largest city in the Territory. The contract 

 price of the timber was 60 cents per 100 

 cubic feet for spruce and cedar, and 30 

 cents jjer 100 cubic feet for all other spe- 

 cies. The sale area covers 45,000 acres and 

 extends for 55 miles along the coast. Twen- 

 ty per cent of the forest is spruce, 66 per 

 cent hemlock, and 14 per cent Alaska and 

 western red cedar. 



The Alaska forests also contain the 

 second chief essential of the pulp and paper 

 manufacturing industry, namely, water 

 power. No accurate survey of the power 

 resources has yet been made, but known 

 projects have a possible development of 

 over 100,000 h. p., and it is believed that a 

 complete exploration of the National For- 

 ests in southern Alaska will show not less 

 than 250,000 potential horse power that can 

 be developed from water. 



Forest Service cruisers are now working 

 in Alaska collecting data for further use 

 and development of the forests. One block 

 of timber containing 335,000,000 cubic feet 

 enough to keep a 100-ton pulp mill run- 

 ning, has been advertised and is now ready 

 for sale. 



CONTROLLING DAMPING-OFF 



The best method for controlling damping- 

 off in forest nursery stock appears to be the 

 disinfectant treatment of the seed bed, say 

 specialists of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, who have recently completed 

 a Series of investigations to work out control 

 measures. A report of their investigations 

 has just been published as Department Bulle- 

 tin 934, Damping-Off in Forest Nurseries. 

 Sulphuric acid, they say, has been found very 

 useful for conifers, as they are apparently 

 especially tolerant of acid treatment. 



In most nurseries, if the minimum effective 

 quantity of acid is used, there is no need of 

 any special precautions to prevent injury to 

 the seedlings. The minimum quantity must 

 be determined for each locality, for the spe- 

 cialists say that no single treatment can be 

 found that can be universally applied with- 

 out change in details. 



The most serious losses in conifers, accord- 

 ing to the bulletin, are from the root-rot type 

 of damping-off, which occurs after the seedl- 

 ings appear above the ground. This type of 

 the disease is most serious under extremely 

 moist atmospheric conditions. The type of 

 damping-off which appears later when the 

 stems become too rigid to decay easily is 

 ordinarily less important than the earlier 

 type. Seedlings more than two months old 

 are, as a rule, able to recover from infections 

 The specialists believe that thick sowing 

 favors the disease, and that soil acidity is 

 in general unfavorable to it. 



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WOMEN HELP IN FIGHTING FIRES 

 W^OMEN helped in the hazardous game 

 of fire-fighting during the past sea- 

 son in the Southwest, according to the 

 forest officers of several of the .\rizona 

 and New Mexico forests. Some were 

 stationed on the lookout towers of lonely 

 high peaks, others working remote forest 

 telephone exchanges througli many hours 

 when the danger was acute, and others on 

 the very fire line itself, leading or fighting 

 the fires with the hastily assembled crews. 

 Forest fire fighting has generally been con- 

 ceded a full sized man's job, but the long 

 annals of the Forest Service throughout 

 the West are filled with stories of women 

 taking a helping hand at the various phases 

 of the game. This past season in the 

 Southwest was no exception. 



On the Rincon Mountains, a part of the 

 Coronado Forest in Southern Arizona, the 

 high Spud Rock Lookout point was 

 "manned" during the fire season by Mrs. 

 Lyle B. Smith, wife of the local Forest 

 Ranger. Mrs. Smith, in addition to her 

 lookout duties, cleaned and brushed out 

 a number of miles of trail in the vicinity 

 of her tower. 



On the Prescott Forest Miss Edith 

 Dandrea discovered a fire near the head 

 of Turkey Creek. She reported the fire 

 to her father and brothers, secured the 

 services of another man, and went with 

 the party to the fire, taking a hand in the 

 fight. The fire had secured a considerable 

 start when the party arrived, and when a 

 brisk wind came up about the middle of the 

 afternoon it was seen that they could not 

 control the fire. Miss Dandrea then caught 

 up her horse and rode 15 miles in record 

 time over rough mountain trails and roads 

 to the nearest telephone in Crook's Canyon 

 and notified the Forest Ranger of the dis- 

 trict. Later the fire was put under control. 

 The Forest Supervisor reported that the 

 prompt action and work of this woman 

 prevented a large fire and saved a big 

 area of young and mature yellow pine, 

 which the fire would shortly have destroyed. 



ADDITION TO EASTERN NATIONAL 

 FORESTS 



The purchase of 42,221 acres of land in 

 101 different tracts in the White Mountains, 

 Southern Appalachians and Arkansas, at an 1 

 average price of $4 an acre, was authorized 

 by the National Forest Reservation Commis- 

 sion on June IS. The tracts are located in i 

 Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, New Hamp- 

 shire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia 1 

 and West Virginia. 



The commission also authorized the ex- 

 amination of lands in Kentucky with a view > 

 to determining their suitability for the es-^ 

 tablishment of a National Forest in tha 

 State. Investigation will be made of lanSs' 

 outside the Appalachians with the object of 

 ascertaining the protection afforded the flow 

 of navigable streams by forest cover. 



