AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FORESTERS ATTENTION 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will gladly prist free 

 of charge In this column advertisements of for- 

 esters, lumbermen and woodsmen, discharged or 

 about to be discharged from military service, who 

 want positions, or of persons having employment 

 to offer such foresters, lumbermen or woodsmen. 



POSITIONS WANTED 



WANTED Position as City Forester. Technically 

 trained and experienced forester. 30 years old. 

 Have had 5 years experience in city forestry, 

 tree surgery, landscape work. Box 2010, care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (2-5-21) 



GRADUATE of a recognized forestry school hav- 

 ing had several years practical experience in 

 all phases of forestry, both public and private, 

 and experienced in portable logging operations, 

 desires to make a change. Will consider any 

 proposition in any part of United States or 

 Canada. Box 2030, care American Forestry 

 Magazine, Washington, D. C. (2-4-21) 



TECHNICAL FORESTRY GRADUATE, B. S. 

 1908, M S. 1914, desires position as City Fores- 

 ter. Twelve years practical experience in tree 

 surgery, planting, transplanting, spraying, 

 orchard care, improvement cuttings and land- 

 scaping, including making and execution of 

 plans. Employed at present. References if 

 desired. Married, age 41. Box 2020, care Ameri 

 can Forestry, Washington, D. C. (2-4-21) 



YOUNG MAN, 30 single, technical training and 

 experienced in forestry and engineering, also 

 first-class knowledge and experience in ac- 

 counting and office work, desires position of- 

 fering opportunity for the future. Address Box 

 2000, care AMERICAN FORESTRY. (2-4) 



BUSINESS MAN with technical forestry 

 training and experience, a specialist in 

 aerial mapping and patrol, experienced in 

 protection, cruising and administration, 

 desires responsible position. Now en- 

 gaged in economic study of paper indus- 

 try. Address Box 080, care American 

 Forestry, Washington, D. C. (2-4) 



YOUNG MAN WITH WOODS EXPERI- 

 ENCE and college and military training, 

 desires position in connection with man- 

 agement of forest lands on large estate. 

 Address Box 990, care American Fores- 

 try Magazine, Washington, D. C. (2-4) 



GRADUATE of the Ranger Course of the Lin- 

 coln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee, 

 wishes to secure work as a forest ranger or 

 guard. Twenty-four years old. Address Box 

 96.5, care American Forestry, Washington, D. C 



(11-1-21) 



POSITIONS OPEN 



WANTED An assistant forester. Good place of- 

 fered for a recent graduate who would like to 

 get in business for himself in an excellent lo- 

 :ation Address Box 920, Amebic** Foisty 

 M*r.Azim (8 10/80) 



WANTED: A married man with small family, 

 with technical forestry training and practical 

 experience, also having some knowledge and 

 experience in farming and with farm machin- 

 ery, to act as forester and superintendent of 

 private forest estate of 500 acres in eastern 

 Connecticut. House provided with modern 

 conveniences. A goon position for a good 

 man. Address, Box 975, Care AMERICAN 

 FOR F.ST RY. 



ea STATE NEWS m 



IDAHO 



VY7HEN the Idaho State Legislature meets 

 in January it will be approached with 

 a bill to authorize a survey of the forest 

 resources of the State to be made by the 

 School of Forestry of the University of 

 Idaho. This survey will be to determine 

 the quantity and availability of existing 

 stands containing raw material suitable for 

 pulp mills, wood-working and by-products 

 industries and the probable future supply 

 of such material from young growth com- 

 ing in on cut-over or burned-over areas. 

 The object of making a survey of this char- 

 acter is to have definite statistics available 

 to attract capital from other sections to 

 this State by showing the possibilities of 

 establishing pulp mills, wood-working and 

 by-products industries here. The bill calls 

 for an appropriation to cover the expenses 

 of this survey and it is believed that the 

 expenditure of this sum will be more than 

 repaid in a very few years by the industrial 

 development which it will attract to the 

 State. It appears that not only eastern 

 paper mills, but many other industries 

 manufacturing wood products or by-prod- 

 ucts are canvassing the western situation 

 to determine the possibility of re-establish- 

 ing themselves in a new region because of 

 the exhaustion of the nearby supplies of 

 their raw material and the State which can 

 furnish these industries with concrete in- 

 formation as to the opportunities for 

 permanent establishment within its borders 

 is the State which will attract this develop- 

 ment. 



The plan of distributing forest and shade 

 trees at cost to the people of the State is 

 growing in favor from year to year as is 

 shown by the fact that the business has 

 nearly trebled the past biennium. Approxi- 

 mately one hundred and seventy-five thou- 

 sand trees were distributed in this period. 

 There is an increasing demand for black 

 locust for fence post production. 



A meeting was held in Boise which was 

 called together by the State Land Board 

 for the purpose of being enlightened on 

 forest problems, particularly fire patrol and 

 protection. While no definite action re- 

 sulted from the meeting the opinion was 

 expressed by many prese.it that strides had 

 been made in bridging the gap between 

 private and State interests in the forests of 

 the State. The main issue, on which both 

 sides agreed, was that forests which are 

 under the supervision of the United States 

 Forest Service should be patrolled with the 

 fire protection feature most in mind. Cruis- 

 ing and classification of the forests should 

 also be done. 



ILLINOIS 



'OEMARKABLE developments in fores- 

 try in Illinois are confidently looked 

 for this season. The Constitutional Con- 

 vention, sitting recently at Springfield, 

 passed the following section : "That the 

 General Assembly shall pass laws for the 

 encouragement of forestry and may classi- 

 fy for taxation areas devoted to forests and 

 forest culture." It is hoped that the dele- 

 gates will stand solidly behind this action 

 and that as a consequence legislation favor- 

 able to forestry will be introduced into the 

 next constitution. 



LOUISIANA 



A PROJECT to encourage the boys of the 

 State to reforest Louisiana, put idle 

 lands to work, and incidentally teach the 

 youth the importance of conservation and 

 thrift, was the dominant note struck at the 

 first meeting of the General Forestry Ad- 

 visory Board, appointed recently by Gover- 

 nor Parker. The Forestry Board was cre- 

 ated by Act of the last General Assembly, 

 its principal function being to advise with 

 the commissioner of conservation on all 

 matters pertaining to forestry in the State 

 and to approve expenditures of the Fores- 

 try Division of the State Department of 

 Conservation. 



Methods will be worked out to promote 

 a statewide movement that it is thought 

 may result in the reforestation of hundreds 

 of thousands of acres, the actual work be- 

 ing performed by boys under the super- 

 vision of the Superintendent of Forestry, 

 R. D. Forbes. Briefly the plan is to induce 

 farmers, who may have strips of land not 

 well adapted to agriculture, to give such 

 land to their boys, and to enter into a con- 

 tract with the State, the farmer as trustee 

 for his son, to set aside such strips for a 

 term of years exclusively for the growing 

 of trees. As the boy grows to manhood 

 the tree's grow with him, and upon arriving 

 at maturity the boy will find himself in pos- 

 session of a well timbered tract of second 

 growth, which will be an asset to his purse 

 and an asset to the State itself. 



The plan is similar to that which was 

 inaugurated by Henry E Hardtner, at 

 Urania, several years ago, which has 

 worked out so successfully that it has at- 

 ti acted international attention. In the lat- 

 ter case the boy will look out for re- 

 foresting, protecting his wood lot from 

 fire and hogs, fencing it, etc. Upon reach- 

 ing manhood's estate he will have a fine 

 stand of timber ready for the ax and saw. 

 It was the opinion of the members of the 

 board that the movement, if encouraged, 

 would prove as far-reaching and beneficial 

 as the Boy Scout plan. Thousands of 



