AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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AIR PILOTS TO SPOT FOREST FIRES 



ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, U. S. 

 Army aviators while patrolling their 

 aerial beats along the Mexican border 

 will take time to locate forest fires on 

 the Coronado National Forest, in southern 

 Arizona, under an agreement made by 

 Major Ralph Royce, of the air service, 

 and District Forester Frank C. W. 

 Pooler of the Forest Service. Under this 

 agreement, army aviators will be permitted 

 to leave their border patrol in order to 

 ascertain the exact location of forest fires, 

 and in certain cases special patrol trips 

 may be undertaken with the permission 

 of the district commander of the air service. 

 The region covered by this patrol includes 

 the Chiricahua, Tumcacori, and Huachuca 

 mountain ranges. When forest fires are 

 discovered by the airmen, notice will be 

 telegraphed to the nearest forest ranger. 



The agreement between the air service 

 and the Forest Service marks the beginning 

 of aerial forest fire patrol in the south- 

 western National Forests, and forest offici- 

 als express themselves as highly gratified 

 with the enthusiastic cooperation of the 

 army. Extensive air patrol work is al- 

 ready being done in California and the Pa- 

 cific northwest through the cooperation of 

 the army and the forest service. 



Although aeriel fire patrol is still in the 

 experimental stage, foresters are optimistic 

 as to its future development and usefulness 

 and many air service officers regard it as 

 an excellent means of training army flyers, 

 by giving them a practical objective in 

 their work. 



$10,000 FOR FOREST RESEARCH 

 '"PHE National Research Council has re- 

 ceived a gift from the Southern Pine As- 

 sociation of $10,000 to pay for the incidental 

 expenses of a co-ordinated scientific study 

 by a number of investigators of the re- 

 growth of trees on cut-over forest lands 

 with the aim of determining the best for- 

 estry methods for obtaining the highest 

 productivity. Although some of these cut- 

 over lands can perhaps be most advan- 

 tageously used for agricultural purposes, 

 there is a large acreage of them which will 

 yield better returns if devoted to reforesta 7 

 tion. Despite the large amount of forest 

 study that is being conducted under gov- 

 ernment and State auspices, there is much 

 need for additional investigation. This 

 is well recognized by lumbermen and is 

 especially indicated by the action of the 

 recent meeting of the Southern Forestry 

 Congress at New Orleans in formally en- 

 dorsing the scientific projects of the Na- 

 tional Research Council in regard to for- 

 estry. The gift from the Southern Pine 

 Association is made as a result of this 

 action. The investigation will be conduct- 

 ed under the advice of the Research Coun- 

 cil's special committee on forestry, and 

 will not duplicate any present government 

 or other undertakings along similar lines. 



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LUMBER COMPANY TO REFOREST 

 A T the annual meeting of the directors 

 of the Great Southern Lumber Company 

 at Bogalusa, Louisiana, the matter of a re- 

 forestation policy was brought to a head 

 by General Manager Sullivan, who has 

 long had it in mind. President A. C. Good- 

 year, like Mr. Sullivan, believes in the 

 future of the paper industry at Bogalusa, 

 and realizing that an end will come in 

 time to the stock of virgin timber which 

 now furnishes raw material to both the 

 paper and sawmill, believes it good business 

 for the company to provide raw material 

 for the future; also, he thinks that the 

 present is none too early to begin with it. 

 This policy, in fact, was settled on at the 

 meeting. 



Mr. Sullivan secured the attendance 

 of Austin Cary, logging engineer in the 

 U. S. Forest Service, who about a year 

 ago, in company with a member of the 

 Bureau of Soils at Washington, made a 



rapid survey of conditions on the com- 

 pany's lands. A half day's trip in the field 

 which the company's officials took in com- 

 pany with Mr. Cary was very convincing. 

 It was very clear that with good manage- 

 ment a heavy crop of pulpwood could be 

 raised on certain types of cut-over land 

 of no value for agricultural purposes in 

 twenty years' time. Acre production, in 

 fact, is probably three times as great as 

 in the spruce region of the Northeast and 

 of Canada, where, due to greatly shrunken 

 supplies of pulpwood, tree planting on a 

 considerable scale is already being car- 

 ried on. 



Fire control, the first step necessary in 

 the new program, is already on foot in 

 Washington and St. Tammary parishes, the 

 company's field men having been taken into 

 the organization for that purpose, managed 

 by the State Conservation Commission. 

 The next step contemplated is to select a 

 man to take the lead in the work. 



