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FOREST SURVEY IN ILLINOIS 



The State Natural History Survey of 

 Illinois, a Division of the Department of 

 Registration and Education has now in ac- 

 tive progress a systematic survey of the 

 forest areas of the state, carried on by 

 a party of trained foresters, who are mak- 

 ing careful counts and measurements of 

 the different kinds of trees on sample 

 strips or plots to get the data for a com- 

 putation, for each kind of 'rees, of the num- 

 ber of board feet of merchantable timber 

 per acre, and the number of cubic feet per 

 acre, suitable for railroad ties, mine props, 

 fire wood, etc. The information obtained 

 will be published, together with general 

 descriptions illustrated by photographs and 

 maps, of the kinds and condition of the 

 various forest areas, in the bulletin of the 

 State Natural History Survey. Other stud- 

 ies are being made of the rate of growth 

 of the different species of trees on differ- 

 ent soils and under different conditions as 

 to subsoil, slope, and drainage, the whole 

 investigation being in the nature of a stock- 

 taking of Illinois woodlands for a deter- 

 mination of their value as public and pri- 

 vate resources. 



Statistics are also being collected of the 

 consumption of timber by the different 

 wood-using industries of the state, the 

 local supplies available for each, and the 

 time which these will last at present rates 

 of use. 



The forest survey will also report upon 

 the kinds of management necessary to 

 maintain production, the most important 

 of which is evidently protection against 

 damage by fire. These studies will pres- 

 ently be extended to deforested areas in 

 order that normal agricultural lands may 

 be clearly distinguished from those which 

 should be kept in forest or restocked with 

 trees as the most profitable use to which 

 they can be put. The survey party is now 

 at work in the forested area of extreme 

 southern Illinois, but will later extend its 

 operations along the Mississippi bluffs and 

 over the broken lands bordering the more 

 important streams within the state. 



PLAYGROUND FOR BUTTE 



The first law authorizing the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to co-operate; with a munici- 

 pality in the development of playground 

 areas was enacted on April 28, when 

 President Harding signed a bill recently 

 passed by Congress empowering the Secre- 

 tary to set aside for the recreational devel- 

 opment of Butte, Montana, a tract within 

 the Decrlodge National Forest. According 

 to a statement issued by the Forest Service 

 of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture the area is desired by the City of 

 Butte for a playground. The city has beeji 

 reluctant to construct improvements be- 

 cause National Forest lands are freely 

 open to mineral prospecting and the loca- 

 tion of claims on the proposed area would 

 destroy its value for outdoor enjoyment. 



American Forest 

 Regulation 



By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr. 



Limited edition, paper cover, $2.75 net, 

 $3.00 postage prepaid (cloth, $3.50) ; about 

 230 pages (6x9 inches). 



A thoroughly Americanized discussion 

 of the regulation of forests. Introduction 

 by B. E. Fernow, LL, D. ; 4 chapters by 

 H. H. Chapman, Professor, Yale School of 

 Forestry. 



Of Interest to 



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GLACED GRASSHOPPERS 



"Very much unheard of before,' one, of 

 the glacier experts of the Geological Survey 

 said skeptically when recently shown re,- 

 ports and photographs of the Grasshopper 

 Glacier which lies just outside of the north- 

 east corner of the Yellowstone National 

 Park. 



However, the glacier is there for any one 

 to see. Imbedded in its ice there are thou- 

 sands of strata of grasshoppers of an ex- 

 tinct species, which must have been flying 

 over the mountains in living clouds when 

 they were caught in snowstorms and killed, 

 later to be preserved for countless years in 

 solid ice. 



The Glacier which lies in great cirques 

 at the head of Rosebud River is compar- 

 able to any of the big glaciers of the 

 Rockies. It is a safe glacier, having few 

 crevices. The view from the glacier is 

 sensational due to the towering sawtooth 

 mountains about it, and the yawning can- 

 yons of the Rosebud below. The trip to 

 this glacier is worth while in every respect 

 and is be^t reached from the Yellowstone 

 Park as a side trip from Tower Falls 

 Junction. Motorists can drive to Cooke 

 City from which point horses and guides 

 for the glacier trip can be secured. 



$367,000 FOR STATE ROADS 



Expenditures totaling $367,000 of Na- 

 tional Forest Highway funds for the 

 construction of 64 miles of liighway in New 

 Mexico have just been approved by Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture Wallace. This money 

 was made available for roads serving the 

 National Forests and for roads within or 

 adjacent to the forests, which are of pri- 

 mary importance to States, counties and 

 communities. 



ATTENTION. FORESTERS 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will print, free 

 of charge in this column, advertisements 

 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 



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. 



(4-6-22) 



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. (4-6-22) 



"LAND OWNERS, are your holdings burden- 

 some? Perhaps there is a better way of getting 

 an income from them or turning them into casl) 

 than has yet occurred to you. It will cost 

 you nothing to talk your troubles over with 

 a LAND SPECIALIST, temporarily unemployed, 

 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 FORSTER . 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, Wasli- 

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



FORESTER, University Graduate; 28 years of 

 age; ex-service man; several years' experience 

 in the paper industry as an executive, also sales 

 experience, desires position. Best references. 

 Address Box 4040, care AMERICAN FORES- 

 TRY, Washington, D. C. (7-9-22) 



YOUNG MAN, 32 years old; married; graduate o) 

 Cornell University; B. S., 1914; M. F., 1915. witli 

 five years' experience in the United States 

 Forest Service. Desires position as fqrester 

 with a lumber company or private estate. The 

 best of references. Address Box 4050, care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wasli 

 ington, D. C. (7-9-22) 



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, UNEMPLCJ'yED OR EMPLOYED, 

 havinff executive ability and poseissinf 

 the pft to lead others, to write us. Great 

 opportunity for those that qualify. State age, 

 reference (2) if employed. School graduated 

 from (years). Confidential. Rangers also an- 

 swer this. Address Box 66-66, AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. 



