120 



45,000,000 



FEET 



National 

 Forest 

 Timber 



FOR SALE 



Location and Amount All the 



merchantable fire-killed and 

 fire damaged timber standing 

 or down and all the live tim- 

 ber marked or designated for 

 cutting on an area embracing 

 about 3,106 acres in unsur- 

 veved Township 29 N., R. 15 

 \Y.. Township 28 N., Rs. 15 

 and 16 \V., and Township 27 

 X. R. 15 \V., Montana P. M., 

 Middle Fork, Flathead River 

 watershed, Flathead National 

 Forest, Montana, estimated to 

 be 45,000,000 feet B. M., more 

 or less of white pine, spruce, 

 larch, Douglas fir, white fir, 

 and lodgepole pine saw tim- 

 ber, approximately 55 per cent 

 spruce, 38 per cent larch and 

 Douglas fir and 7 per cent 

 other species. 

 Stumpage Prices Lowest rates 

 considered, $1.00 per M for 

 green white pine and green 

 spruce, $ .50 per M for green 

 timber of other species and 

 dead timber of all species. , 

 Deposit Two Thousand Dollars 

 must be deposited with each 

 bid to be applied on the pur- 

 chase price, refunded or re- 

 tained in part as liquidated 

 damages according to condi- 

 tions of sale. 

 Final Date for Bids Sealed bids 

 will be received by the District 

 Forester, Missoula, Montana, 

 up to and including March 15, 

 1921. 



The right to reject any and 

 all bids is reserved. 



Before bids are submitted full 

 information concerning the char- 

 acter of the timber, conditions 

 of sale, deposits, and the sub- 

 mission of bids should be ob- 

 tained from the District Fores- 

 ter, Missoula, Montana, or the 

 Forest Supervisor, Kalispel, 

 Montana. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



NATIONAL PARKS AND NATIONAL 



FORESTS 

 A CLEAR distinction of fields exists be- 

 " tween National Forests and National 

 Parks, says Secretary of Agriculture Mere- 

 dith, in discussing the value of the National 

 Forests as recreation grounds in his an- 

 nual report to the President. "Areas of 

 scenic grandeur or natural wonders which 

 are exceptional in character should be in- 

 corporated in National Parks." But the 

 National Forests "must be administered 

 with definite provision for recreational use 

 along with the development and use of their 

 material resources." 



The National Parks must be protected 

 against any form of commercialization, 

 declares Mr. Meredith. Unless they are 

 limited to areas in which the beauties and 

 wonders of nature are in reality so domin- 

 ating that they justify prohibition of con- 

 flicting forms of use, it will not be possible 

 to deny demands which will be made for 

 the use of water power for irrigation and 

 even for timber and forage. "Nor should 

 we build up under the name of National 

 Parks public properties which are open to 

 various forms of commercial exploitation 

 and which are in fact merely National 

 Forests under a different designation," the 

 Secretary says. "Above all, the national 

 conception of our great parks as areas so 

 fine and wonderful that they belong to the 

 whole country should not be cheapened by 

 making them simply a means for local 

 development or advertisement. 



"Areas whose dominant public values are 

 economic do not belong in the parks," the 

 S cretary asserts. "They should remain 

 or be placed in the National Forests if 

 they serve the primary function of the for- 

 eststhe production of timber or the pro- 

 tection of watersheds. On the other hand, 

 the economic service rendered by the for- 

 ests should be no bar to the administration 

 of small areas at many points within them 

 for public recreational purposes or for the 

 protection of their natural beauty." ' In 

 fact, Mr. Meredith says, for every one of 

 the National Parks there are literally hun- 

 dreds of areas in the National Forests 

 whose highest public use requires develop- 

 ment of their recreational value, though it 

 would not justify their administration as 

 National Parks. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING 

 'T'HE adjourned annual meeting of the 

 American Forestry Association will be 

 held at the Willard Hotel, Washington, 

 D. C, at 2 P. M., Friday, February 25, 1021. 

 Members will vote upon proposed amend- 

 ments to the by-laws providing: 



For increasing the subscribing member- 

 ship dues from $3.00 to $400 a year. 



For a Board of Directors consisting of 

 fifteen members, seven of whom W. R. 

 Brown, H. H. Chapman, Dr. Henry S. 

 Drinker, C. W. Lyman, Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, C. F. Quincy and E. A. Sterling- 

 shall be permanent members, and eight 



others, four being elected annually to serve 

 terms of two years. 



For the nomination by the Board of 

 Directors of elective candidates for the 

 Board. 



For the election of the elective directors 

 by vote of members present at the annual 

 meeting and by the mail vote of those not 

 present. 



For the election of the president, vice- 

 presidents, treasurer and secretary by the 

 Board of Directors. 



For the amendment of the by-laws, except 

 as to the selection of directors, either by the 

 Board of Directors or by the members. 



For annulment of membership of mem- 

 bers in arrears in dues for one year. 



By order of the Board of Directors, 

 P. S. Ridsdale, 

 Secretary. 



BULLETIN ON BIRD LIFE 

 'T'HE National Park Service of the De- 

 partment of the Interior announces the 

 publication of "Birds of the Papago Sagu- 

 aro National Monument and the Neighbor- 

 ing Region, Arizona." The pamphlet is by 

 H. S. Swarth, Curator of Birds in the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of California and a leading authori- 

 ty on the birds of Arizona. It contains a 

 very interesting account of the bird life 

 on the Papago Saguaro National Monu- 

 ment, near Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona, 

 and on the Sierra Ancha, north of the 

 Roosevelt Reservoir. Travelers over the 

 Apache Trail should provide themselves 

 with a copy, as an understanding of the 

 bird life of the region will add much to 

 the pleasure of their trip. 



FARM WOODLANDS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES 

 ABOUT one-third of all the forest land 

 of the United States is on farms, says 

 W. R. Mattoon, in a recent bulletin on 

 "Forestry and Farm Income," issued by 

 the Department of Agriculture. Accord- 

 ing to the latest census, the farm wood- 

 lands amounted to about 190,000,000 acres. 

 In the eastern United States east of the 

 Plains the total -woodlands on farms 

 amounted to about 178,000,000 acres. This 

 is equivalent roughly to the aggregate area 

 of the states of Pennsylvania, West Vir- 

 ginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky 

 and Tennessee. 



Farm woodlands in the eastern United 

 States form an area nearly eight times as 

 large as the entire forest lands of France, 

 which furnished practically all the timber 

 required during the war by the armies of 

 France, Great Britain, Belgium and the 

 United States. 



The present yearly income from farm 

 woodlands in the South is estimated at 

 about $150,000,000. From the 53,000.000 

 acres of farm woodlands in the North, Mr. 

 Mattoon estimates that the income to farms 

 from timber produots is $162,000,000 an- 

 nually. 



