FOREST GUIDE DEPARTMENT 



SOLAN L. PARKES, EDITOR 



THE editor of this department has been ill for some 

 time but is now on the job and will devote his 

 time to forwarding the Forest Guide Movement, 

 doing all that he can to make the program available 

 for those organizations which desire to have it for their 

 members, and also to others which would like to follow 

 the teachings of the program as outlined in the January 

 number of the American Forestry Magazine. It will 

 take a little time until the full details of the plan can 



be presented. 



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While sitting in the office of the Commissioner of 

 Forestry of Pennsylvania on the afternoon of April 5 

 my eyes swept the range of hills across the Susquehanna 

 River, in Perry County, and I saw smoke rising, just a 

 little white cloud at first, and I said, "I think there is a 

 forest fire over there on the hills." Chief Forest 



THE WHITE PINE 



A case of white pine specimens, cone and seed in center while to the 

 right at the top a hranchlet or clump of needles is shown. Immediate- 

 ly at the bottom is a cluster of five needles. You can easily identify 

 the white pine as there are always- five needles on a cluster. At the 

 bottom, bark and so forth as in other cases. 



Fire Warden White came in, and in a few seconds fores- 

 ters were on the way to extinguish the blaze. 



Five hundred and eleven Boy Scout Troops in 

 Pennsylvania have enrolled as Forest Guides, with 

 the total number of ten thousand one hundred fifty- 

 six Forest Guides in the State of Pennsylvania. There 

 is also the button of the Pioneer Forest Guide, which is 

 a new classification in Forest Guide Service for those 

 who give leadership to the boys in their charge. These 

 buttons will be sent out to the leaders in Pennsylvania 

 as soon as the lists are compiled. 



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The photographs show the contents of four cases which 

 can easily be built by any boy or girl scout troop, or any 

 school or club. 



The cases are built from boards one-half inch in 

 thickness. Inside measurements, twelve inches wide and 



RED CEDAR 



Red-cedar specimens. There is also a peculiarity about the cedar leaves 

 or needles which is shown plainly on the charts. The bottom of this 

 exhibit is built to show bark, grain and cross section, and makes a 

 very attractive case, as it shows so clearly the red wood of the 

 cedar. 



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