AMERICAN FORESTRY 



1503 



R. H. RUTLEDGE PERMANENTLY IN 

 CHARGE OF DISTRICT ONE 



"PERMANENT adjustment of the execu- 

 tive forces of district No. I of the 

 Forest Service, as approved by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture and the Forester at 

 Washington, D. C, have been announced 

 at the Missoula headquarters of the district. 



First and most important of all is the 

 appointment of Richard H. Rutledge as 

 District Forester in charge of all national 

 forests in Montana and northern Idaho. 

 Mr. Rutledge has been acting District For- 

 ester since the departure of F. A. Silcox in 

 the summer of 1917 and his appointment as 

 Chief of the district is now made perma- 

 nent, a fact which is especially pleasing to 

 his subordinates and his many friends in 

 Missoula and vicinity. 



Mr. Rutledge is a veteran of the Forest 

 Service, having first entered it as a ranger 

 at Fayette, Idaho, in 1905, 14 years ago. In 



1907 he was appointed supervisor of the 

 Coeur d'Alene forest, and in the fall of 



1908 came to Missoula as Assistant Dis- 

 trict Forester of operations in the district, 

 and has remained here since. In 1910 he 

 became Chief of the Department of Lands, 

 remaining in that position for four years 

 until transferred back to operations in 1914. 

 As mentioned before, he succeeded Mr. 

 Silcox when the latter left for Washington 

 in 1917. 



COMMENT ON TROPICAL WOODS 



"DEFERRING to an article which appear- 

 ed in the August issue of American 

 Forestry, entitled, "Uncle Sam, Lumber- 

 man, Canal Zone," Mr. C. H. Pearson, an 

 expert on foreign and domestic cabinet 

 woods, makes interesting comment. Mr. 

 Pearson said in part: "Lignum vitae does 

 not grow in the Canal Zone, nor are cacti 

 found there as shown in one of the illustra- 

 tions. The other scenes are probably from 

 Porto Rico or Cuba where this Almendro 

 de la India is planted as a shade tree. The 

 Lignum vitae referred to by the author 

 is a spurious variety called locally Guaya- 

 can, which happens to be the Spanish name 

 for true Lignum vitae. Not a pound of this 

 wood was ever used by any of the Navy 

 Yards in this country, because it was found 

 entirely unfit for the purpose intended. 

 The Almendro to which the author refers 

 in the text is a native forest tree of large 

 proportions and is botanically distinct from 

 this introduced species illustrated and local- 

 ly called Almond. Special attention is call- 

 ed to the grotesque shapes assumed by these 

 trees as a result of the tropical winds, but 

 the traveler in Panama is well aware that 

 there are no localities in the Republic where 

 the wind is permanently in one direction 

 which would give shade trees this form and 

 outline. This is another reason to believe 

 that the pictures were taken on the south 

 coast of Porto Rico or some other island 

 of the West Indies." 



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SCHOOL BOYS MOBILIZED IN 

 REFORESTATION PLAN 



"VfOBILIZATION of thousands of young- 

 sters for service in systematic flood 

 control work around Los Angeles has been 

 completed. In addition to obtaining co- 

 operation of the, principals of the high 

 schools, County Forester Flintham was 

 authorized by the Board of Supervisors to 

 obtain 200,000 young trees for planting 

 back of piling defining the stream channels. 

 These will be of hardwood varieties, which 

 will establish themselves firmly without 

 spreading into the stream channel. 



In the seed-gathering campaign beginning 

 immediately, there will be a systematic plan. 

 Approximately fifty boys a day will be kept 

 on the job indefinitely. The gathering of 

 seeds is authorized by the school principals 

 and will be done in school time under the 

 direction of teachers of the schools from 

 which the boys come. Some twenty varie- 

 ties of brush seed will be gathered for 

 planting in the areas swept by the recent 

 forest fires. It has been found that con- 

 siderable care will have to be exercised in 



planting the seed, as the warm weather fol- 

 lowing the first big rain of the season made 

 a crust over the hillsides. The seed will 

 have to be raked in to be effective. 



SCOPE OF THE FOURTEENTH 

 CENSUS EXTENDED 



'T'HAT the Fourteenth Decennial Census, 

 on which the actual enumeration work 

 will begin January 2, 1920, is to be the most 

 important ever taken is shown by the fact 

 that the Act of Congress providing for this 

 census expressly increased the scope of the 

 inquiries so as to include forestry and for- 

 est products, two subjects never covered 

 specifically by any preceding census act. 



The compilation and gathering of fores- 

 try and forest products statistics will be in 

 charge of a special force of experts. The 

 accurate and comprehensive figures gath- 

 ered concerning this vital natural resource 

 will be much in demand, and the compari- 

 sons made with conditions existing before 

 the war will be of great interest. 



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