ROTARIANS ENDORSE FORESTRY 



CTRONG resolutions were recently 

 passed by the Rotary Club of Helena, 

 Montana, endorsing and supporting the 

 proposal to secure an appropriation for es- 

 tablishing a forest experiment station in 

 northeastern Montana and urging its repre- 

 sentatives at Washington to use their in- 

 fluence in its behalf. The resolutions are 

 based on the constant need of reforestation 

 in the great forested areas of Montana, 

 western Washington and central and south- 

 ern Idaho due to loss by fire and other 

 damage, and the great importance of trie 

 efforts of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion to secure the establishment of the 

 station covering the States of Montana, 

 western Washington and central and north- 

 ern Idaho were commended in the reso- 

 lutions 



RESOLUTIONS BY NEW YORK 

 ASSOCIATION 



T^HE Xew York State Forestry Asso- 

 ciation at its Ninth Annual Meeting, 

 held in January, passed resolutions vigor- 

 ously endorsing the proposed legislation to 

 provide an adequate basis for forest taxa- 

 tion and the proper handling of our for- 

 est lands, and expressing their interest and 

 support of the constructive work being 

 carried on by the several State agencies 

 concerned with administration of State for- 

 ests and the education of the people of 

 the State in forestry, as well as the ex- 

 tension of fire protective work to include 

 all the forest lands of the State. In a 

 final resolution the Association favors the 

 granting of increased appropriations by the 

 Congress of the United States for fire pro- 

 tection and the acquisition of forest lands 

 under the Weeks Law. 



USE OF WOOD BY THE FARMER 

 "AGRICULTURE is the greatest wood 

 using industry of the United States," 

 said Colonel W. B. Greeley, Chief of the 

 United States Forest Service. "Forty-six 

 per cent of all the wood which the country 

 consumes annually is used on its farms. 

 The yearly lumber bill for farm structures 

 and improvements aggregates six and three- 

 quarters billion board feet! Farm re- 

 quirements for boxes, barrels, and other 

 articles manufactured from wood call for 

 nearly four billion board feet additional 

 each year. Add to these requirements the 

 eighty million cords of fuel wood con- 

 sumed annually by farmers and over a 

 billion cubic feet of fencing material and 

 it is easily seen that farmers have a great- 

 er interest in an assured supply of timber 

 at reasonable prices than any other class 

 of American citizens. 



"The farmer is the most independent of 

 anyone in the nation when it comes to 

 food. He might be equally independent 

 in the matter pf timber. He owns, in the 

 aggregate, more forest land than the lum- 

 bermen and all other private owners com- 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



bined. Farm woodlots, or woodlands, 

 reach the enormous total of one hundred 

 and ninety-one million acres and com- 

 prise two-fifths of the forest area of the 

 United States. East of the Mississippi 

 River they cover one hundred and fifty- 

 three million acres, or forty-five per cent 

 of all the forests. A rough estimate places 

 the timber standing in the farm woodlots 

 of the Eastern States at three hundred 

 and forty billion feet, or forty per cent of 

 the timber in this region. And this quan- 

 tity includes over half of our remaining 

 hardwoods." 



PENNSYLVANIA DISTRIBUTES 

 FREE TREES 

 'T'HE Pennsylvania Department of For- 

 estry -will distribute free this spring 

 about 3,500,000 forest tree seedlings to 

 private land owners in the State, according 

 to a statement issued by Gifford Pinchot, 

 the Chief State Forester. Last year 2,748,- 

 120 seedlings were given without cost to 

 792 private planters. 



Since 1903, when the State nurseries be- 

 gan producing young trees, the total output 

 has been 45,909,309 seedlings. Albout 34,- 

 000,000 of them have been planted by the 

 Department of Forestry on State forest 

 lands, and the remainder have been planted 

 by individual land owners. Some of the 

 largest plantations have been established 

 by coal mining, water and lumber com- 

 panies. Scores of farmers, however, have 

 planted thousands of seedlings on waste 

 and idle land that is not suited for growing 

 agricultural crops. 



The Department's supply of black walnut, 

 white ash and Jack pine seedlings is com- 

 pletely exhausted. The output of Norway 

 spruce and honey locust is being applied 

 for in such quantities that it soon will be 

 gone. There is available for future appli- 

 cants, however, a large supply of white 

 pine and pitch pine seedlings. 



GOVERNOR FAVORS OPENING NEW 

 YORK FOREST PRESERVE 



'J' HE Empire State Forest Products As- 

 sociation has sent out a ballot to its 

 membership to learn the concensus of 

 opinion regarding the proposed opening of 

 the forest preserve, which was advocated 

 by Governor Miller in his message to the 

 New York State Legislature in January, 

 when he said : 



"I invite attention to the question 

 whether the time has not arrived for the 

 State really to conserve some of its 

 natural resources. Valuable timber is an- 

 nually going to waste in the forest pre- 

 serve. It seems to me that a plan ought 

 to be devised to utilize such timber in a 

 way to protect and improve the forest 

 preserve and at the same time produce a 

 substantial revenue and prevent waste of 

 valuable timber, which is greatly needed. 

 Of course that will require a constitutional 

 amendment. recommend the subject to 

 your careful consideration." 



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School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with oppor- 

 tunity to specialize in General 

 Forestry, Logging Engineer- 

 ing and Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course, of high 

 school grade, covering two 

 years of five months each. 



Special Short Course, covering 

 twelve weeks designed for 

 those who cannot take the time 

 for the fuller courses. 



No tuition is charged for any 

 of the above courses, and other- 

 wise expenses are the lowest. 



Correspondence Course. A 



course in Lumber and Its 

 Uses is given by correspon- 

 dence for which a nominal 

 charge is made. 



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University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



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