A New Course 



The College of Forestry of the Univer- 

 sity of Washington, at Seattle, particularly 

 calls attention to the opportunities for 

 specialization in the business of lumbering, 

 the courses of which are for the first time 

 announced in the catalog this year. They 

 include courses in commercial geography, 

 money and banking, accounting, trade of 

 the Pacific, principles of advertising, and 

 other courses in business and commerce. 

 With the addition of these courses, the 

 School of Forestry is now ofitering oppor- 

 tunities to the students for specialization 

 in practically even,- form of the lumber 

 industry. 



Forest Fire Wamin^ 



With the opening of the season of fire 

 danger on most of the national forests, the 

 Forest Service is sending broadcast a 

 warning that more than half of the for- 

 est fires in the United States are due to 

 carelessness or other preventable causes. 

 starting from campers, railroad locomo- 

 tives, brush burning,, incendiaries, and 

 sawmills. 



This statement is based on an anlysis 

 of statistics compiled from the forest fire 

 records of the last season, when more than 

 7,000 fires were reported on national for- 

 ests alone and appro.ximately 10,000 on 

 State and private holdings in the eighteen 

 States which received Federal cooperation 

 in fire protection under the Weeks law, 

 namely, Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont, 

 Massachusetts. Connecticut, New York. 

 New Jersey, Maryland. West Virginia. 

 Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, 

 Washington and Oregon. 



Forest fires destroy millions of dollars' 

 worth of timber and other property every 

 year, and in some years cause consider- 

 able loss of life. It has been estimated 

 from the best information obtainable that 

 forest fires last year burned over an area 

 of approximately 6.000.000 acres, with a 

 total loss of at least 89.500.000. 



Forest Notes 



retary feels that in authorizing the en- 

 rance of automobiles to this park a step 

 has been taken in the right direction and 

 that a greatly increased number of people 

 will be enabled to visit the park without 

 increased danger in travel. Mr. Mather's 

 report also states that travel in the park 

 is breaking all records, the total visitors 

 for the month of June being 7,500, and 

 that during the period from June 15 to 

 July 8 about 12,500 people visited the 

 park, and that on July 8 there were 4,000 

 visitors there. 



Autos in the YeUowstone 



Secretary Lane has just received an en- 

 couraging report from his as.sistant, Mr. 

 Stephen T. Mather, in charge of national 

 parks, relative to the opening of Yellow- 

 stone Park to automobiles on August 1. 

 Mr. Mather states that everyone concerned 

 is now enthusiastic about the change in 

 the regulations under which automobiles 

 will be allowed to enter the park and that 

 Colonel Brett, the superintendent, has 

 worked out a schedule under which it is 

 expected the automobile traffic will not 

 endanger visitors to the park. The Sec- 



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Summer Camp for Forestry 



The forestry summer camp of the Uni 

 versity of Maine opened at Camp Lunka 

 soo on August 4. This two weeks' course 

 was started in the summer of 1913 in 

 response to a demand for a popular, short, 

 introductory course in forestry. The 

 staff of instructors at the University of 

 Maine are in charge of the work, but it is 

 not a part of the regular four years' pro- 

 fessional course in forestry given at the 

 university. 



No tuition is charged, but living ex- 

 penses while in camp are divided pro rata 

 between those in attendance, thus making 

 the expense very light. Tents, blankets 

 and cooking equipment are all provided 

 at the camp. The work consists in lec- 

 tures, general discussions of forestry prob- 

 lems, and practical field work, the latter 

 occupying fully two-thirds of the time. 



In the Adirondacks 



One of the best sites in the Adirondacks 

 has been obtained for the 1915 camp of 

 the State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 through the generosity of George H. 

 Thatcher, of New York. During August 

 the time will be devoted to lectures and 

 demonstrations by graduate foresters, bot- 

 anists, zoologists and more particularly 

 to field trips which will enable the 

 campers to come in close contact with the 

 forest and its wild life. 



grades, putting the goods up in the most 

 approved way, beUeving that it will thus 

 develop a fine business on walnut halves 

 and pieces shelled. The association also in- 

 tends to introduce this year 25- and 50- 

 cent consumer packages of shelled walnuts. 

 A million or more cartons, containing 1 

 and 2 pounds of walnuts in the shell, are 

 also to be put out this season. All car- 

 tons will have a diamond-shaped gelatin 

 opening, so the consumer can see the 

 contents. 



Standardizing California Walnuts 



Announcement is made by the Califor- 

 nia Walnut Growers' Association that a 

 by-products plant will be opened in Los 

 Angeles shortly to work all inferior nuts 

 into by-products. This will raise the 

 standard and consequently increase the 

 demand for California walnuts all over the 

 country by keeping from the market the 

 culls, cracked and otherwise inferior wal- 

 nuts. 



Several hundred tons of walnuts will 

 probably be cracked up each season and 

 the association intends to make standard 



Re-enters Forest Seryice 

 On the recommendation of the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture and with the concur- 

 rence of the Civil Service Commission, the 

 President has authorized the reinstate- 

 ment of Edward E. Carter in the Forest 

 Service as forest inspector at $2,800 a year 

 "without regard to the year limit of the 

 reinstatement rule." 



Mr. Carter entered the Forest Service 

 in March, 1905, as a field assistant at 

 $1,000, and resigned in September, 1910, 

 after having been promoted to the grade 

 of assistant forester at $2,500. 



Philippine Concessions 



The Bureau of Insular Affairs of the 

 War Department is in receipt of a cable- 

 gram from Manila advising that the Bureau 

 of Forestry of the Philippine Islands has 

 extended until noon, October 1, 1915, the 

 time at which it will open bids for a forest 

 concession covering the area known as the 

 Tayabas-Camarines tract. 



The Bureau of Forestry also proposes 

 to grant a concession covering the Tam- 

 bang tract on the Caramoan Peninsula in 

 the Camarines, and announces that upon 

 the receipt of the first satisfactory applica- 

 tion the concession will be advertised and 

 bids invited. 



The Bureau of Insular Affairs is pre- 

 pared to furnish information regarding 

 these forest tracts. 



Book Reviews 



Camp Cr.^kt, by Warren H. Miller, $1.50, 

 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City. 

 This is a thoroughly well illustrated book 

 of 282 pages by the versatile editor of 

 Field and Stream, whose contributions to 

 American Forestry are so well known by 

 our readers. Mr. Miller is so well versed 

 in all the knowledge of camping and camp 

 comforts that what he says may be adopted 

 as authoritative. The book contains what- 

 ever information may be needed by the 

 lover of the woods, the hunter, the fisher 

 or anyone who anticipates and enjoys life 

 in the open. Besides what information 



