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thier some seven years ago, have made 

 splendid progress and are now six to ten 

 feet in height for Norway spruce and 

 eight to ten feet for white pine. These 

 plantations were made to stop the en- 

 croachment of the sand on farming country 

 and have answered the purpose admirably. 

 The growth of the spruce in absolutely 

 pure sand is quite remarkable. It is too 

 bad that the plantations have not been con- 

 tinued. 



■ Messrs. Clyde Leavitt, J. M. Swaine and 

 Arnold Hanssen made a trip to the limits 

 of the River Ouelle Lumber Company at 

 River Manie, in the company of W. G. 

 Power, President of the Canadian Lumber- 

 men's Association, to investigate the rav- 

 ages of the spruce budworm and spruce 

 bark beetle. They report that the trees 

 are beginning to recover from the attack 

 but that the number of spruce trees blown 

 down as the result of cutting to a diameter 

 limit is very large, causing a great deal 

 of waste. 



forty-five entrants. The course will begin 

 with lectures on forestry and will be fol- 

 lowed by others on logging, wood prepara- 

 tion, grinding, sulphite making, paper- 

 making, purchasing, selling, engineering 

 and management. One hundred and fifty 

 pupils are enrolled for the winter session 

 of the school. 



A course in paper-making has been start- 

 ed in the Laurentide Night School with 



Robson Black, Secretary of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association, has finished a most 

 successful lecturing trip through the 

 Prairie Provinces. He has held ten public 

 meetings in Winnipeg alone, sometimes 

 at the rate of two or three per day, ad- 

 dressing business men, bankers, mortgage 

 companies and so forth. In Prince Albert 

 he had an audience of 700 men and women. 

 Much enthusiasm for the conservation of 

 timber resources was aroused and the idea 

 has taken firm root. The Forestry Car 

 which is making a tour of the country has 

 met with the greatest success. 



The reports of damage from forest fires 

 in the Prairie Provinces during the past 

 summer will run into millions of dollars. 



FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



rPHE Forestry Club has had three in- 

 teresting meetings since October 1st. 

 Twenty-five men left Berkeley early Sun- 

 day morning, October 5th and went by 

 train and boat to Fairfax, for a hike 

 through the picturesque hills of Marin 

 County. The route of the trip was across 

 a chapparal covered ridge to the new La 

 Guitas reservoir of the Marin Municipal 

 Water District. This artificial lake with 

 its well forested watershed is now full to 

 capacity for the first time and has added 

 greatly to the natural beauties of the 

 region. After following down La Guitas 

 Creek to the junction of the Little Carson 

 Creek a halt was made for lunch beneath 

 the shade of some fine redwood, Douglas 

 fir and Tanbark oak trees. The afternoon 

 trip brought us back to Fairfax by way of 

 the headwaters of the Little Carson. 

 Twenty-five species of trees were noted 

 during the day. 



The next regular meeting was held on 

 October 17th, when Professor David T. 

 Mason spoke to the club about his work 

 with the Treasury Department in the ad- 

 ministration of the income tax to the lum- 

 ber industry. 



An open air meeting in the Berkeley 

 Hills was held on October 28th at the old 

 camp fire place in Telegraph Canyon. 

 After a hearty meal of "weenies," coffee 

 and pie, Mr. S. B. Detwiler, who is in 

 charge of the White Pine Blister Rust 

 eiadication, told the boys something of the 

 character of the work being done in scout- 



ing for the disease and the nature of the 

 quarantine by means of which it is hoped 

 that it may be kept out of the western 

 forests. Mr. Posey, who is directing the 

 work in California and several of his 

 field men were also guests of the forestry 

 club at this camp fire meeting. 



During the regular business session it 

 was decided that the forestry club should 

 recommend to the Associated Students' 

 organization the planting of a memorial 

 grove of Sequoia gigantea on a suitable 

 site in Strawberry Canyon to the 80 Uni- 

 versity of California men who gave their 

 lives in the World War. It is hoped that 

 the work can be done as the "Labor Day" 

 project by the entire student body on Feb- 

 ruary 29, 1920. It has been the custom 

 for several years for students and faculty 

 to lay aside regular duties on this extra 

 day and all join in some work of im- 

 provement of beautification needed about 

 the campus. The forestry club feels that 

 the planting of such a memorial grove is 

 the most fitting way in which the coming 

 Labor Day can be spent. 



Professor Woodridge Metcalf spent a 

 week end recently with the Santa Cruz 

 high school forestry class which is being 

 conducted by R. E. Burton, a former presi- 

 dent of the University of California For- 

 estry Club. An interesting field trip 

 through some of the cut over lands in the 

 vicinity of Santa Cruz was made the op- 

 portunity for pointing out the necessity for 

 permanent forests in this region. Many 

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