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I need a copy of Forestry and Irrigation for 

 March, 1904. Will anyone who can furnish a 

 copy please write me promptly? I should also 

 like to hear from anyone who can supply copies 

 of The Forester, bound or unbound, before De- 

 cember, 1900. I have quite a number of dupli- 

 cates of Forestry and Irrigation, Conservation 

 and American Forestry, the oldest being Decem- 

 ber, 1902, and should like to get in touch with 

 anyone wishing to complete their files. 

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m STATE NEWS hb 



CALIFORNIA 



TUEARLY 56,000,000 feet of timber, worth 

 some $132,000, was the toll exacted by 

 the more than 1,100 fires within the National 

 Forests in California last year, according 

 to District Forester Redington. And this 

 in spite of the fact that 880 of the 1,100 fires 

 discovered and fought by Forest Rangers 

 were kept to less than 10 acres each. The 

 Shasta Forest in Siskiyou and Shasta 

 counties suffered severely, with a total of 

 more than 28,500 acres burned, over 12,000 

 of which was in private ownership. Actual 

 damage to timber was also greatest on the 

 Shasta, for fires here destroyed $34,000 

 worth of Government and $42,000 worth of 

 private stumpage. 



The largest burned acreages, according 

 to Forest officials, were in the brush coun- 

 try of the Angeles and Santa Barbara For- 

 ests in Southern California, where over 200 

 square miles of mountain watersheds were 

 denuded of their vegetation. 



Fires outside the National Forests de- 

 stroyed timber and range worth, according 

 to State Forester Homans, more than $386,- 

 000. This figure does not include damage 

 to grain and hay, which totaled over $350,- 

 000, nor to improvements, valued at nearly 

 $190,000. 



The season of 1919 was considered the 

 worst in California since 1910, Forest offi- 

 cials state. 



ILLINOIS 



A LTHOUGH 30 per cent of Illinois was 

 originally covered by trees, two-thirds 

 of this primitive forest area has been de- 

 forested, a good deal of it to its own injury 

 and to the disadvantage of its owners, ac- 

 cording to State Forester Robert B. Miller, 

 who has entered upon his duties at the 

 University of Illinois. With a view to es- 

 tablishing a permanent forestry policy for 

 Illinois, a forestry survey of the State has 

 been started. The objects of such a survey 

 are, Mr. Miller states, to ascertain present 

 conditions and values of our existing for- 

 ests in order to know which of them should 

 be permanently kept as forest properties 

 and which may be more profitably cleared 

 up, now or later, for agricultural purposes ; 

 to find forest tracts available, under co- 

 operative management, for demonstration 

 purposes ; to select forest tracts which the 

 State should acquire as permanent sources 

 of supply to Illinois industries ; to study 

 the uses and values of the farm wood-lot 

 as a feature in the management of Illinois 

 farms ; to study the advantages and disad- 

 vantages of the use of woodlands for pas- 

 turage by cattle, hogs and sheep ; to study 

 the geographic and local distribution within 

 the State of the most important trees with 

 a view to a choice, for preservation, main- 



tenance and cultivation, of the kinds best 

 adapted to each set of local conditions ; and, 

 finally, to study the relation of Illinois for- 

 ests, and of their removal, to the problem 

 of permanent water supplies, to the occur- 

 ence of floods in streams, and the mainte- 

 nance of underground waters at levels 

 which will prevent their recession beyond 

 the reach of crop plants in times of drouth. 

 The office of the forester, being at the 

 University of Illinois, affords many oppor- 

 tunities for helpful conference and co- 

 operation, especially with the topographical 

 survey made by the Geological Survey of 

 the State, the soil survey conducted by the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of the 

 University, the Farm Management Bureau 

 of the Experiment Station, the county farm 

 advisers and the Extension Service all 

 located at the University. 



LOUISIANA 



'"PHE Louisiana Department of Conserva- 

 tion, through its Division of Forestry, 

 has recently given out its estimates of the 

 amount of cut-over land of various kinds 

 in the State. Heretofore in speaking of 

 the cut-over land problem in Louisiana it 

 has been necessary to use general terms 

 and to employ figures which were at best 

 very rough estimates. While the figures 

 of the Department of Conservation are not 

 claimed to be absolutely correct, they are 

 based upon the most recent tax estimates, 

 checked by the United States census, and 

 various other sources of information; they 

 are felt to be substantially correct. These 

 figures show that on January 1, 1918, there 

 were 12,260,000 acres of cut-over land in 

 Louisiana, of which 8,195,000 acres are pine 

 land, 2,685,000 acres hardwood land, and 

 1,380,000 acres of cypress swamps. All of 

 these figures are exclusive of former for- 

 ested land which has been cleared and put 

 to agricultural use, or converted into pas- 

 tures. In 1907 the number of cut-over acres 

 is estimated to have been 7,895,000. This is 

 a 50 per cent increase in 11 years. The de- 

 partment estimates that in the neighborhood 

 of 5,000,000 acres of cut-over pine lands 

 are practically without second-growth, al- 

 though with proper fire protection more 

 than half of this area, and perhaps as much 

 as two-thirds, would reproduce naturally 

 because of the presence of seed trees. Prob- 

 ably 3,000,000 acres in North Louisiana 

 bear stands of second-growth pine and 

 hardwoods, in some cases very fine stands. 

 In announcing these figures on cut-over 

 land areas Commissioner M. L. Alexander 

 calls attention to the fact that whereas 

 timbered lands are assessed at anywhere 

 from $15 to $235 an acre, the cut-over lands 

 are worth only $2 to $9. With the cut-over 

 acreage increasing yearly by between 250,- 



