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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FORESTERS ATTENTION 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will gladly print frer 

 of charge In this column advertisements of for- 

 esters, lumbermen and woodsmen, discharged or 

 about to be discharged from military service, who 

 want positions, or of persons having employment 

 to offer such foresters, lumbermen or woodsman. 



POSITION wanted by t'-hnically trained For- 

 ester. Have had fo en yeara experience 

 along forestry lines, t, .r five years on the 

 National Forests in timber sale, lilvicultural 

 and administrative work; three years experi- 

 ence in city forestry, tree surgery and landscape 

 work. Forester for the North Shore Park Dis- 

 trict of Chicago. City forestry and landscape 

 work preferred, but will be glad to consider 

 other fines. Can furnish the best of reference 

 Address Box 900, Care American Forestry 

 Magazine, Washington. D. C 



YOUNG MAN recently discharged from the U. S. 

 Navy, wants employment with wholesale lum- 

 ber manufacturer; college graduate; five year's 

 experience in nursery business; can furnish 

 best of references. Address Box 675, Care 

 American Forestry Magazine, Washington. 

 D. C. 



RECENTLY discharged from U. S. Army, young 

 man wants position with a firm who has use for 

 a lumber tallyman and inspector. Has a good 

 education, 11 years' practical experience in lum- 

 ber and can furnish good references. Address 

 Box 880, care of American Forestry Magazine, 

 Washington, D. C. 



ARBORICULTURIST is open to an engagement 

 to take charge of, or as assistant in City For- 

 estry work. Experience and training, ten years, 

 covering the entire arboricultural field from 

 planting to expert tree surgery including nur- 

 sery practice, and supervision in the care and 

 detailed management of city shade trees. For 

 further information, addreas Box 700, care of 

 American Forestry. 



WANTED Position as Forester and Land Agent 

 Technically trained forester, 35 years old 

 Practical experience along all linea included 

 under the duties of the above positions. For- 

 mer Captain, Field Artillery. Address Box 810, 

 care American Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



A FORESTRY graduate with several years ex- 

 perience in forest work and at present em- 

 ployed along technical and administrative 

 lines desires responsible position with private 

 concern operating in and outside the United 

 States. Address Box 870, care of American 

 Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. C. 



DISCHARGED SAILOR would like position as 

 assistant forester or a permanent position as 

 surveyor with some lumber company with a 

 chance for advancement. Salary is of secondary 

 consideration. Married, so would have to 

 locate in some small town. Have had four 

 years' practical experience in general forestry, 

 and some tree surgery. Address Box 900, care 

 of AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, 

 Washington, D. C. 



POSITIONS OPEN 



MAN WANTED with technical training and 

 practical experience sufficient to make him 

 thoroughly competent as a developer of Park 

 plans, and also Park Superintendent both in 

 road construction, planting and landscape work 

 and Director of Forestry Service upon t the 

 public streets and parks of the city. Address 

 Box 910, American Forestry Magazine, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (8-9-20) 



WANTED Man capable of Supervising Slack 

 and Tight Barrel Plant; Purchase and Inspect 

 Cooperage Stocks; Develop Boxes, Crates and 

 other Packages for miscellaneous articles. State 

 experience, salary wanted and references in first 

 letter. Address Box 123, care of AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY MAGAZINE. Washington, D. C 



CAMPING GROUNDS IN NATIONAL 

 FORESTS 



T>ROBABLY no one piece of woods work 

 has done so much to acquaint the public 

 with forest fire protection and secure its 

 support as the improvement of camping 

 places in the National Forests, says "The 

 Forest Patrolman," published by the West- 

 ern Forestry and Conservation Association, 

 in its last issue. The public is appreciative 

 of rude conveniences for its comfort and 

 everyone is thereafter more careful with 

 fire in the woods. The National Forests are 

 public property and as such are to be ad- 

 ministered so as to secure the greatest 

 public enjoyment of their resources, in- 

 cluding fishing, hunting and camping. Im- 

 provements in the way of clearing, and 

 rough fire places and garbage pits have 

 been made on over 344 camp grounds in 

 Oregon and Washington in the National 

 Forests, these improved camp grounds be- 

 ing visited annually by nearly 35OJ000 

 people. A surprising amount of public 

 appreciation has been expressed for the 

 camp ground work, say many forest officers, 

 and the result has been a greatly increased 

 public understanding of the objects of the 

 National Forests, an increased co-operation 

 and a better support in fire protection 

 work. 



TIMBER RESOURCES OF ALASKA 



'T'HE timber in Alaska is much more suit- 

 able for pulp and paper than it is for 

 saw timber, says the British Consul at 

 Seattle in a recent report. "Consequently," 

 he adds, "on account of the unlimited 

 amount of cheap wood and immense quan- 

 tities of cheaply installed water power with 

 deep water transportation to the doors of 

 the world, southeastern Alaska in the com- 

 paratively near future must become one of 

 the great paper centers of the world." The 

 best timber in the coastal region or wet 

 belt is found in the Tongass National For- 

 est which comprises nearly all of south- 

 eastern Alaska. It is estimated that this 

 region contains 70,000,000,000 board feet of 

 merchantable timber, of which hemlock 

 makes up 65 per cent; Sitka spruce, 20 

 per cent, red cedar, 7 per cent, yellow 

 cypress, 5 per cent, and other species, 3 

 per cent. 



During 1918, nearly 18,000,000 board feet 

 of hemlock piling was cut on the Tongass 

 National Forest, this being used chiefly for 

 fish traps and wharves. From 30,000,000 to 

 40,000,000 feet of Sitka spruce is cut annu- 

 ally on the Tongass and Chugach National 

 Forests. 



During the war, Alaska furnished large 

 quantities of the very best airplane lumber 

 that was secured, this being practically 

 the only lumber that Alaska has ever ex- 

 ported. 



GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE 

 WOODS 



'T'HE emphasizing of the wasteful lum- 

 bering methods of the past is of little 

 service unless the practicability of better 

 measures can be shown. Where economical 

 logging methods are being used they should 

 be given full recognition by all conserva- 

 tionists, and given earnest consideration 

 by operators. An instance of close utili- 

 zation is evidenced on the limits of a 

 company operating in a modest way in the 

 Parry Sound district. This company se- 

 cured a block of timber, consisting 

 mixed hardwoods and conifers, situated 

 near the mill of another company. The 

 first mentioned company let out its woods 

 operations to a sub-contractor and is pro- 

 ceeding to log the area very cleanly. The 

 thoroughness of the operation is shown 

 in the disposal of the products. The soft- 

 wood logs go to the neighboring mill ; the 

 hemlock ties (hewn) to the railway com- 

 pany; the spruce and balsam pulpwood 

 to a pulpmill at a considerable distance; 

 the basswood logs, as also any good balm 

 of-gilead logs, go to New Jersey for match 

 stock; the birch logs go to Montreal for 

 export to Europe, for use as veneer, and 

 the other hardwoods, including white oak, 

 ash and elm, are also disposed of. Tn 

 addition, cedar poles are taken out, the 

 hemlock bark is shipped to tanneries near 

 Toronto, and hardwood waste is used as 

 fuel in its camps. This operation, there- 

 fore, may be said to represent the maxi- 

 mum of close utilization. This timber 

 license, of course, is close to a railway, 

 but there must be many opportunities for 

 other such intensive operations throughout 

 Ontario. 



Close utilization is also adopted by some 

 of the chemical companies. They operate 

 sawmills in conjunction with their wood 

 distillation plants, and have logging rail- 

 ways, one of which is 13 miles long. They . 

 saw both softwoods and hardwoods into 

 lumber, carbonize smaller hardwoods for 

 chemicals, and use inferior cordwood and 

 slabs from the mill for fuel to heat their- 

 ovens. One company at least is about to 

 experiment with the carbonizing of hard- 

 wood slabs. 



These examples include the logging 

 hardwoods, which is necessary - to solve 

 present forestry problems. It seems prob- 

 able that more companies could be operat- 

 ing logging railways and removing hard- 

 woods when the present prices of fin- 

 ished products are considered. If log- 

 ging railways are not feasible further ex- 

 periments with driving hardwood logs 

 might be carried out. Many companies 

 have already successfully driven hardwoods 

 for short distances, after leaving the logs 1 

 in the bush for a year to dry out. {A. 1 ' 

 Gilbert, in Conservation.) 



