ermanently maintained for the recreational 

 se of the public. As the United States 

 '"orest Service favors the preservation of 

 he highway timber under its jurisdiction, 

 his aim of the association may eventually 

 e realized. 



INE BLISTER RUST IN BRITISH 

 COLUMBIA 



Discovery of white pine blister rust in 

 kitish Columbia on cultivated black cur- 

 ants by Prof. J. W. Eastham, Provincial 

 'athologist, British Columbia, is of great 

 mportance to the United States because of 

 ihe extensive and highly valuable western 

 vhite pine and sugar pine forests in the 

 Vest. The rust has been found in several 

 jcalities on Vancouver Island, including 

 /ictoria, ,Nanaimo, Comox, and Courtenay, 

 jnd on the mainland at Vancouver, New 

 Vestminster, Chilliwack, and Agassiz. The 

 iscovery of the rust by Professor East- 

 lam was made on September i6, 1921. 

 iince that time the agents of the Office of 

 ilister Rust Control of the United States 

 department of Agriculture have visited 

 iritish Columbia to study the distribution 

 f the disease. White pines {Pinus stro- 

 us), grown from seed in Stanley Park 

 t Vancouver were found diseased. Spec- 

 mens of these pines were referred to the 

 )epartment of .Agriculture at Washington, 

 ). C. These have been identified as being 

 .ffected by the white pine blister rust, 

 Zronartium ribkola. Further scouting car- 

 ied on by Federal agents has revealed the 

 ' on cultivated black currants at Sumas 



and Mount Vernon, Washington. 

 V. liite pine blister was brought to Ameri- 

 a from Europe during the past 20 years, 

 nd has already done much harm. There is 

 videspread infection in the white pine for- 

 sts of the Northeastern States, and the 

 lisease is spreading in Wisconsin 'and 

 .finnesota. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



HOW DID THEY GET THIS 

 WAY? 

 By S. C. Martin 



This is a long leaf pine, six feet apart 

 at the ground, crossed, but not joined, at a 

 distance of seven feet from the root of 

 the tree, and at a height of thirty feet the 

 two trees are joined together, and as is 



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NEW YORK CITY FORESTERS 



The New York Forest Club, consisting of 



he foresters in and about New York City, 



las, after a year of informal organization, 



nade itself a definite organization for the 



liscussion of forestry problems, and has 



elected E. A. Sterling, Chairman, and O. 



|*f. Porter, Secretary. The Club will hold 



jnonthly meetings, to which all foresters 



I'isiting in the city are invited, the meeting 



late being fixed as the second Tuesday of 



ach month, with a I o'clock luncheon at 



' Yale Club. An effort will be made to 



: the foresters of the entire country 



rrange their visits to New York, when 



;ble, as to be present at this time. It 



'-. a surprise to most of those present 



learn that in New York district there 



about eighty forest school graduates. 



ral of these are connected with com- 



ial concerns in their professional ca- 



ty, especially those in the paper industry 



Inch is going more and more deeply into 



forestry problem. 



THE DOUBLE PINES 



"Double Pines" growing on Pine Moun- 

 tain, in Harris County, Georgia, ten miles 

 from Hamilton, and near Columbus. 



shown in the picture, the two trees form 

 one complete tree. 



The photograph was furnished AMERI- 

 CAN FORESTRY by J. O. Martin, of the 

 Department of Education, of Georgia. 



FOREST FIRE PROTECTION 



The State of Washington spent $37,000 

 in 1921, out of a $100,000 legislative appro- 

 priation, for fire protection in the windfall 

 area on the Olympic Peninsula. Approx- 

 imately eight billion feet of fir, s.pruce, 

 hemlock and cedar timber, blown down by 

 the tornado of January 29, 1921, served to 

 make a gigantic fire trap covering 2,200 

 square miles of wilderness bordering the 

 Pacific Ocean. Fire once started there 

 would have caused untold damage before 

 it could have been checked either by human 

 agencies or by burning itself out, the lat- 

 ter the more probable eventuality. But, 

 due to the preventive measures taken by 

 the federal government and the state, the 

 hazard was reduced to a minimum. Joint- 

 ly with the government, the Washington 

 Forest Fire Association, and the Clallam 

 Lumber Company, the state constructed 

 large water tanks at strategic points along 



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