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MICE AND CHIPMUNKS HELP 

 RESTOCK FORESTS 



TUt ICE and chipmunks are helping to re- 

 establish the forests of Oregon and 

 Washington, state officials of the Forest 

 Service. Studies made by J. V. Hoffman, 

 Director of the Wind River Forest Experi- 

 ment Station, Stabler, Washington, have 

 shown that a large part of the young fir 

 growth coming in on burned or logged 

 areas in these States is not due to seeding 

 by occasional trees which are left, but 

 rather from seed buried beneath the duff 

 of the forest floor. 



"In the Douglas fir region," states Mr. 

 Hoffman, "the forests produce a heavy seed 

 crop every two or three years. Rodents 

 collect the seed from the cones in large 

 quantities and bury them just beneath the 

 surface of the soil. Part of the seea' thus 

 stored away is eaten, but snow and soil 

 movement often covers many of the hordes 

 so that they are never found. When log- 

 ging operations open up the stand, these 

 seed germinate and produce a new stand 

 of little trees." 



The Wind River Experiment Station is 

 but one of several establishments main- 

 tained by the Government in the National 

 Forests for the solving of forestry prob- 

 lems. In this particular case many thou- 

 sands of dollars have been saved annually 

 to western lumbermen through the assist- 



ance of rodents in restocking cutover lands. 

 This is one example of the value of the 

 experiments being carried on by these 

 stations, which are so important to the 

 perpetuation of our forests and dependent 

 industries. 



The appropriation for these important 

 investigations, which are the backbone of 

 all standard forest practice, although al- 

 ready insufficient, was cut last year by 

 over one-third by Congress. In the Pacific 

 Northwest, $50,000 annually is needed for 

 this work, and only through adequate funds 

 can much needed results be secured. 



ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN 

 FORESTERS 

 A RECENT event of considerable sig- 

 nificance in the development of State 

 forestry in this country is the organization 

 of the Association of Michigan Foresters 

 by the technically trained foresters of the 

 State. The first meeting of the newly 

 formed association, which was called by 

 the Michigan State Farm Bureau, went on 

 record in connection with a number of im- 

 portant points including particularly fire 

 protection, reforestation, forest taxation, 

 and the reorganization of the conservation 

 work of the State. 



The association emphasized the impor- 

 tance of forest fire protection and urged 

 that sufficient appropriation for a highly 

 efficient fire-fighting organization should 

 be provided by the legislature. It com- 

 mended the work being done by the various 

 State agencies in the reforestation of state 

 forests and farm woodlands, and the ini- 

 tiation of roadside planting on State high- 

 ways. In the field of forest taxation it 

 favored substituting for the present method 

 a land tax to be collected annually at the 

 local tax rate on the value of bare land 

 and a deferred yield tax on timber when 

 cut, and appointed a committee to draft 

 more equitable taxation laws. It also 

 favored an immediate soil and economic 

 survey of all lands in Michigan to deter- 

 mine which are better suited for farming 

 than for forestry purposes. In the matter 

 of organization it recommended the for- 

 mation of a Conservation Department, in 

 charge of a Director of Conservation, to 

 be appointed by the Governor, such a de- 

 partment to include bureaus of natural re- 

 sources, of State forests and parks, and of 

 wild life. Finally, as a means of crystalliz- 

 ing sentiment and expediting action the 

 Governor was requested to call a meeting 

 of all citizens interested in the conservation 

 of the State's resources and the utilization 

 of State lands, as well as of prominent 

 foresters and others interested from with- 

 out the State, to consider plans relative to 

 the administration, protection, and utiliza- 

 tion of forest lands. 



This program, while not complete, con- 

 tains many important items which should 

 be enacted into legislation at the earliest 

 opportunity. About 20 years ago, when 

 State and National forestry received a 



distinct impetus from the work of Roose- ; 

 velt and Pinchot, Michigan, like others ol 

 the Lake States, started out in promising 

 fashion to solve its- forest problems. As 

 a result of this movement, Michigan estab- 

 lished the policy of reserving State lands 

 and placing them in State forests ; organ- 

 ized departments of forestry in the State 

 University and the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, and placed a fairly satisfactory fire 

 law on the statute books. Yet, in spite of 

 this promising start, progress has not been 

 all that could have been wished. 



American Forestry congratulates the 

 Association of Michigan Foresters on hav- 

 ing taken an important step toward the ad- 

 vancement of forestry in the State. It is 

 to be hoped that its efforts will be success- 

 ful in hastening the adoption of a compre- 

 hensive and constructive forest policy. In 

 addition to the other fields covered it is 

 also hoped that the association will turn its 

 attention in the near future to devising 

 methods for preventing the denudation of 

 the areas of merchantable timber still left 

 within the State by seeing to it that they 

 are cut in such a way as to secure natural 

 reproduction. One of the cardinal points 

 in the National Forestry program endorsed 

 by the American Forestry Association and 

 now before Congress is maintenance by the 

 States in co-operation with the Federal Gov- 

 ernment of the productivity of virgin for- 

 ests and other areas of merchantable timber. 



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