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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ATTENTION, FORESTERS 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will print, free 

 of charge in this column, advertisement! 

 of foresters wanting positions, or of per- 

 sons having employment to offer foresters. 

 This privilege is also extended to foresters, 

 lumbermen and woodsmen who want posi- 

 tions, or to persons having employment to 

 offer such foresters, lumbermen or woods- 

 men. 



POSITIONS WANTED 



GRADUATE FORESTER. tJ yer rxperirnce in 

 Practical Forctrjr and Park work, with (tood 

 workinz knowledge in the cuttinir and removal 

 of timber. Fire Protection Planting. Pruning 

 and Care of Treei and Shrubs, etc., desires posi- 

 tion with private company or on an estate. Ad- 

 dress Box UTS, care AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 MAGAZINE. Washington. D. C. (3--) 



YOUNG MAN, Age , ex-service man in the 6eld 

 artillery, desires employment in some branch of 

 forestry or as a ranger, guard, etc. Address Box 

 MM. care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGA- 

 2INE, Washington P. C. (3-5-82) 



WANTED Positions by three High School Grad- 

 uates for forestry work or woods work for the 

 summer. Salary or location no object. Ex- 

 perience wanted. Box 3085. care AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. 



(4-0-22) 



GRADUATE LANDSCAPE FORESTER, expe- 

 rienced in both municipal and private forestry 

 and landscape engineering desires position with 

 a municipality or private concern. Address 

 Box 3095. care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAG- 

 AZINE. Washington, D. C. (4-8-22) 



"LAND OWNERS, are your holdings burden- 

 some? Perhaps there is a better way of getting 

 an income from them or turning them into cash 

 than has yet occurred to you. It will cost 

 you nothinir to talk your troubles over with 

 a LAND SPECIALIST, temporarily utiemployed, 

 with 25 years* experience at lumbering, fores- 

 try, farming and agricultural organization in 

 the Northwest. Write description of location, 

 topography, soil. etc.. in reply." Box 4010. care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



FORESTRY COLLEGE GRADUATE. 22, single, 

 willing and capable, wants work with a forest 

 products company or a research party. Not par- 

 ticular which part of world duties will lead to. 

 Address Box 4000. care AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 MAGAZINE. Washington. D. C. (5-7-22) 



GRADUATE FORESTER Experienced; eight 

 years state forest management, four years nur- 

 sery, landscape and horticultural work, desires 

 connection with firm or individual interested in 

 forests or nurseries for commercial purposes. 

 Address Box 4020. care AMERICAN FORES- 

 TRY .MAGAZINE, Washington. D. C. (6-8 22) 



POSITION WANTED BY A TECHNICALLY 

 TRAINED FORESTER at present employed as 

 forest manager on one of the biggest private es- 

 tates in Pennsylvania; 35 years experience. Can 

 furnish the best reference. Address Box 4030, 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE. Wash 

 ington, D. C. (6-9 22) 



WANTED 



WANTED A graduate forester of four or five 

 years' experience. Eastern preliminary educa- 

 tion preferred- Good salesman, excellent talker. 

 To do educational extension work. Address 

 Box X 22, care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAG 

 AZINE, Washington, D. C. (4-6-22) 



WANTED;-FORESTERS AND RANGERS to act 

 as District Superintendents and book orders for 

 fruit and ornamental trees, evergreens, shrubs, 

 etc. Fay weekly. Complete equipment. State 

 territory desired. Full or part time. Address 

 Box 3090. care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGA 

 ZINE, Washington, D. C. (4-8-22) 



FORESTERS. UNEMPLOYED OR EMPLOYED, 

 haying executive ability and poteiasing 

 the gift to lead others, to write us. Great 

 opportunity for those that qualify. State age, 

 reference f2) if employed. School graduated 

 from (years) Confidential. Rangers also an- 

 i!i--j!i'.Jw Aii'l^ss Box 86-66. AMERICAN 

 rOKESTRY MAGAZINE, Waahington, D. C 



EASTERN NATIONAL FORESTS 



The purchase of more than 2,000,000 acres 

 of forest lands by the United States has 

 been approved and 1,700,000 acres has been 

 acquired and put under administration as 

 National Forests, in the Eastern States, in 

 accordance with the provisions of the 

 Weeks law, enacted March 1, 1911. The 

 results of a decade of work under that 

 law have been summarized by the Na- 

 tional Forest Reservation Commission in 

 its report for 1921, which has been sub- 

 mitted to Congress by Secretary of War 

 Weeks, president of the commission. 



The National Forests created from the 

 purchased lands lie in the States of Maine, 

 New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Alabama, 

 Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. They 

 have been established primarily to protect 

 the headwaters of 12 important river sys- 

 tems. This protection benefits not only 

 navigation but also waterpower develop- 

 ment, and provides a basis for a system of 

 flood control, either natural or augmented 

 by reservoirs. 



The purchase of lands in Pennsylvania, 

 the report states, was begun last year on 

 the headwaters of the Allegheny River. The 

 recurring floods on the Ohio, especially at 

 Pittsburgh, made this desirable. Other 

 rivers protected are the Connecticut, An- 

 droscoggin, Saco and Merrimac, all im- 

 portant New England streams on which 

 many manufacturers are dependent for 

 power, and the Monongahela, which with 

 the Allegheny has been the chief source of 

 the floods so disastrous to Pittsburgli. 



The new forest to be built up in north- 

 ern Pennsylvania, under the name of the 

 Allegheny National Forest, is to embrace 

 more than 400,000 acres of rough, cut-over 

 land, much of which is badly burned and at 

 present producing nothing of value, and 

 which is in need of fire protection and for- 

 estry management to make the area again 

 a productive asset to the State. All the for- 

 ests in the 10 States have an important 

 function in connection with timber pro- 

 duction. 



A VOTE FOR THE SYCAMORE 



At the recent annual meeting, held early 

 in April, of the National Association, Sur- 

 vivors of the Battle of Shiloh, the follow- 

 ing resolution, declaring for the sycamore 

 as the National Tree, was passed : 



"Be it resolved by this Association, now 

 on its annual pilgrimage to the field of this 

 mighty conflict, that the Sycamore Tree be 

 commended as the National Tree of the 

 United States of America, and we hereby 

 endorse the same and cast our votes for it. 

 its pure white body and limbs being the 

 emblem of peace, now so much desired by 

 the entire world. George P. Washburn, 

 Commander." 



SMOKERS CAUSE MANY FOREST 

 FIRES 



Twenty per cent of all the forest fires 

 started by man in the National Forests ol 

 the West during 1921, were caused by care- 

 less tobacco smokers, according to figures 

 compiled by the Forest Service, United 

 States Department of Agriculture. In Cali- 

 fornia, Arizona and New Mexico one 

 out of every four forest fires due to human 

 agencies was started by burning cigarettes, 

 cigars, matches or pipe-heels carelessly 

 thrown aside by smokers while in the 

 woods. In other parts of the West the 

 percentage of smokers' fires ranged from 

 12 to 18 per cent. The total number of 

 forest fires on the western National For- 

 ests during the past season was 5,131, of 

 which number 1,444 were caused by light- 

 ning, 732 by smokers, and 2,955 by other 

 human agencies. 



Careless smokers, foresters point out, are 

 responsible for one of the most serious 

 fire hazards in the country, because they 

 fail to take proper precautions with burn- 

 ing tobacco and matches. The preventable 

 fire waste of all kinds from these causes 

 averages more than $18,000,000 a year, ac- 

 cording to figures published by the Na- 

 tional Board of Fire Underwriters. The 

 "tailor-made" cigarette is the principal of- 

 fender in the woods, where a glowing 

 "snipe" thoughtlessly thrown down on the 

 forest floor may cost the public thousands 

 of dollars for fire fighting, to say nothing 

 of the value of timber destroyed, the deso- 

 lation of scenic beauty spots, and the harm 

 done to waterflow and wild life. 



FOREST LAND PLANTED 



More than 3,000 acres of idle land in 

 Pennsylvania, which are suitable only for 

 growing a crop of timber, were planted 

 this spring with young forest trees, grown 

 and distributed free by the Department of 

 Forestry. Thousands of trees were shipped 

 every day from the three forest nurseries 

 at Mont Alto, Clearfield and Greenwood 

 Furnace. The Department of Forestry es- 

 timates that more than 3,500,000 trees, 

 evergreens and hardwoods, were given 

 without cost to owners of land in this 

 State. About 165,000 other trees were 

 planted in State forests. Applications for 

 the State's trees this spring far exceeded 

 any previous demand, and the entire avail- 

 able supply was taken long before the 

 planting season opened. John W. Keller, 

 chief of the Bureau of Silviculture, said he 

 had applications for at least 7,000,000 seed- 

 lings, but only half that number could be 

 supplied. Next year, the department's nur- 

 series will grow about 8,000,000 trees for 'i 

 the reforestation of Pennsylvania's waste 

 and denuded lands. 



