AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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PARK TOURIST SEASON 



Opening and closing dates for the tourist 

 season in the parks for 1922 are announced 

 by Secretary Fall, of the Interior Depart- 

 ment, as follows: Crater Lake National 

 Park, Oregon, July 1 to September 20 ; Gen- 

 eral Grant National Park, California, May 

 24 to October 10; Glacier National Park, 

 Montana, June 15 to September 15; Grand 

 Canyon National Park, Arizona, open all 

 vear; Hawaii National Park, Hawaiian 

 Islands, open all year; Hot Springs Na- 

 tional Park, Arkansas, open all year; La- 

 fayette National Park, Maine, June 1 to 

 Xovember 1 ; Lassen Volcanic National 

 Park. California, June 15 to September 1 ; 

 Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, May 

 15 to November 1; Mount McKinley Na- 

 tional Park, Alaska, no official season 

 (summer only); Mount Rainier National 

 Park, Washington, June 15 to September 

 15; Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo- 

 rado, June 15 to October 1 ; Sequoia Na- 

 tional Park, California, May 24 to Oc- 

 tober 10 ; Wind Cave National Park, South 

 Dakota, June 1 to September 30; Yellow- 

 -tone National Park, Wyoming, June 20 to 

 September 15; Yosemite National Park, 

 California, open all year ; Zion National 

 Park, Utah, May 15 to October 15. 



On the opening date the park hotels and 

 camps will be open and prepared to ac- 

 commodate visitors. The first scheduled 

 motor trips will be operated and until the 

 closing date scheduled trips will be made 

 daily. Motor tours in the National Parks 

 are famed as offering the most fascinating 

 scenic trips in the United States and are 

 comparable to any in the world. The rail- 

 roads have announced greatly reduced 

 round trip summer excursion rates with 

 liberal stop-over privileges, effective June 

 1st. (No war tax). The costs of all park 

 trips are remarkably low. All charges for 

 public utility service in the National Parks 

 are strictly regulated by the National Park 

 Service, which has direct supervision over 

 the parks and which cares for their thou- 

 sands of visitors each year. 



WOOD FOR THE NATION* 



The following are extracts from a re- 

 [lort by United States Forester W. B. Gree- 

 ley : The United States produces over one- 

 half the entire lumber cut of the world, and 

 uses 95 per cent of that amount right here 

 at home. 



We have over 80 million acres which 

 have been denuded to the point of absolute 

 idleness so far as the production of any 

 timber of commercial value is concerned; 

 this is an area greater than all the for- 

 ests of France, Belgium, Holland. Den- 

 mark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and 

 Portugal. We have other enormous areas 

 cut-over land now growing but a frac- 

 :.on of the amount of timber which they 

 might produce. We are adding to these 

 areas of idle or largely idle land from 10 

 to 15 million acres every year, as forest 

 fires and destructive logging progress. 



The forest problem of the United States 



is primarily the problem of using millions 

 of idle acres. 



It takes a long time to grow merchantable 

 timber, and the vast public interests at 

 stake cannot, under a real national concep- 

 tion of the problem, be left to the turn 

 of profit and loss or the business policy of 

 the individual. 



Four-fifths of our forests are now in 

 private ownership, and in the nature of 

 things a large proportion will remain in 

 private ownership. Our future wood supply 

 will be far from adequate unless some defi- 

 nite provision is made for keeping private 

 woodlands in the continuous production of 

 timber, on some basis equitable to their 

 owners. 



The public must realize that the present 

 methods of taxation of growing forests in 

 many regions are equivalent to taxing a 

 farm crop twice a week during the grow- 

 ing season and may largely eat up the 

 value of the timber before it is grown to a 

 marketable size. 



Agriculture is the largest wood-using 

 industry in the United States. And on the 

 other side, the farmers of the country 

 taken together are its largest timber own- 

 ers. Farm woodlots the country over 

 reach the enormous total of 191 million 

 acres, more than all the great holdings of 

 commercial timberlands. The farmers 

 have the most permanent interest in a sys- 

 tematic national plan of reforestation. They 

 will find profit in taking their own wood- 

 lots out of the slacker class and they may 

 well take a hand in bringing about a com- 

 mon-sense plan of reforestation based upon 

 necessary and equitable public control. 



FORESTRY INSTRUCTION 



"If we are to avoid a grave economic 

 crisis fifty years hence, it becomes neces- 

 sary that the present generation, particu- 

 larly the children, learn more about our 

 forestry problems and requirements," said 

 C. E. Lawrence, one of the members of the 

 Conservation Commission of Michigan. 



"Those who have had to do with the 

 dissemination of forestry problems and 

 education have been confronted with a 

 most discouraging task in the past. Their 

 efforts have met but with slight response 

 in the majority of instances," continued 

 Mr. Lawrence. "I believe that instruction 

 in forestry should have its inception in the 

 public school. The children should be 

 taught to know, to understand and to ap- 

 preciate our trees, timber growth, preserva- 

 tion and conservation, all of which have 

 been sadly neglected since the time Michi- 

 gan ruled as the first State in the produc- 

 tion of white pine. The history of all great 

 movements, whether it be prohibition or the 

 Audubon Society, found their inception in 

 the minds of the children. If we are ever 

 to realize the economic necessity of refores- 

 tation in Michigan; if the State is ever to 

 become able to produce sufficient timber 

 within its own confines to supply its re- 

 quirements ; if our wood-working industries 

 are to continue in existence; if we are to 



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RED MULBERRY TREES 

 This remarkable photograph was sent in 

 by Dr. Henry Thew Stephenson, and shows 

 two trees on the University Campus at 

 Bloomington, Indiana, which were twisted 

 together when young. Each stem is now 

 about eight inches in diameter. 



