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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with op- 

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 General Forestry, Log- 

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 Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course of 

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 take the time for the 

 fuller courses. 



Correspondence Course in 



Lumber and Its Uses. No 

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 penses are the lowest. 



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University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



Forest Engineering 

 Summer School 



University of Georgia 



ATHENS, GEORGIA 



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AIRPLANE PATROL IN NATIONAL 

 FORESTS 



OATROL of national forests by Army 

 airplanes to give early warning of fires 

 developing in the forests began June I, 

 according to arrangements completed with 

 the War Department by the Forest Serv- 

 ice, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. On the same day observations cov- 

 ering a large part of the Angeles National 

 Forest were begun from a captive balloon 

 stationed over the Army Balloon School 

 near Arcadia, California. 



Two routes of airplane patrol work will 

 be operated from March Field, twelve miles 

 southeast of Riverside, California. Two 

 planes will be used on each route, the routes 

 will each be approximately ioo miles long 

 and each route will be covered twice a day. 

 This is the beginning of experimental 

 work in which the adaptability of aircraft 

 to forest patrol work is to be thoroughly 

 tried out. If the tests prove successful it 

 is expected that the airplane patrols will 

 be extended before the end of the 1919 sea- 

 son, and that airplanes will become a per- 

 manent feature of the ceaseless battle 

 against fires in the national forests. 



The airplane routes from March Field 

 will afford an opportunity to survey about 

 2,000 square miles in the Angeles and Cleve- 

 land National Forests. The airplanes are 

 not equipped with wireless telephone ap- 

 paratus of such a nature that they can com- 

 municate with the ground without the in- 

 stallation of expensive ground instruments. 

 Warnings of fires will be transmitted by 

 means of parachute messages dropped over 

 a town, the finder to telephone them to the 

 Forest Service; by special landings made 

 to report by telephone, and by returning 

 to the base and reporting from March 

 Field direct to the forest supervisor. Fires 

 will be located and reported by squares 

 drawn on duplicate maps, one to be in the 

 possession of each airplane observer and 

 another to be in the office of the forest 

 supervisor. 



The observation balloon over the Ar- 

 cadia Field is to be maintained at an eleva- 

 tion of about 3,000 feet from 7 A. M. until 

 2.30 P. M. each day. The student detach- 

 ment learning observation now stationed at 

 Mount Wilson will also render fire lookout 

 service. Reports of fires from both the 

 balloon observer and the Mount Wilson de- 

 tachment will be telephoned to the Army 

 Balloon School and transmitted to the 

 Forest Service office at Los Angeles. A 

 fire-fighting truck, with ten enlisted men, 

 will be stationed at Arcadia as part of the 

 fire-suppression forces and will be subject 

 to the call of the Forest Service. 



IN MANY sections of the national forests 

 it has been found impossible, without 

 great expense, to maintain telephone wires 

 or cables because of the havoc wrought by 

 timber falling across the wires and by 

 heavy snowslides. Therefore, wireless tele- 



phones are soon to be given a trial in the 

 forests, and the Signal Corps of the Army 

 has lent four combination sets of transmit- 

 ting and receiving apparatus to the Forest 

 Service of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Equipment is to be installed on Mount 

 Hood, at an elevation of about 13,000 feet, 

 and another set is to be at the nearest forest 

 ranger station, about twelve miles away. 

 Two other sets are to be placed in the 

 Clearwater forest region of Idaho, which 

 is heavy wilderness country. 



Wireless telephones have never been 

 tried in mountainous country, and interest 

 centers in the results of the experiments, 

 particularly in the effect on messages of 

 high ridges between telephone stations. The 

 Mount Hood experiment will show the 

 practicability of talking from a high point 

 to a low point, and the Clearwater forest 

 experiment will demonstrate whether mes- 

 sages can be communicated from two points 

 of about the same elevation but separated 

 by mountains. 



All the wireless stations will be estab- 

 lished at lookout points, and will give warn- 

 ings of fires developing in the forests, sup- 

 plementing the regular facilities of the For- 

 est Service. 



A CREW of treeplanters at Albuquerque, 

 New Mexico, is now working under the 

 direction of the Forest Service planting 

 Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce on the 

 high, barren slopes of Santa Fe Baldy, in 

 the Sangre de Cristo range, on the Santa 

 Fe National Forest. A large number of 

 trees were planted last year, and 40,000 

 more are now being planted. 



These seedling trees were grown from 

 the seed of native forest trees at the Gal- 

 linas forest nursery, where experiments 

 have been conducted for several years by 

 the Forest Service in the art of growing 

 forest trees from seeds. The problem is a 

 very difficult one, according to forest of- 

 ficials, owing to the many technical ques- 

 tions involved in the semi-domestication of 

 wild tree species. These problems have now 

 been solved, and the forest plantation on 

 Santa Fe Baldy, as well as several other 

 plantations in the region, have been sucess- 

 ful, and conclusively prove that forest trees 

 can be artificially grown in the southwest 

 in spite of adverse climatic conditions. 



After getting a three years' growth in 

 the Gallinas nursery, forty thousand of the 

 seedlings were transported on pack-horses, 

 with great difficulty, nearly to the summit 

 of Baldy early this spring, where they were 

 buried in the snow until weather conditions 

 became favorable for planting. With the 

 unusually moist, cool season, forest officers 

 are very hopeful that a large percentage of 

 the seedlings will survive and grow into a 

 heavy stand of valuable timber in the 

 course of the next two centuries. 



The work of growing the seedlings and 

 starting the plantation has been carried out 

 by Forest Examiner Herman Krauch. 



