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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The total area of the district now reserved 

 from settlement along the eastern slope of 

 the Rockies in Canada is about 14,400 square 

 miles. On the additional 48,000 square miles 

 just reserved, the effect of the reservation 

 will be to withdraw the timber from dis- 

 posal under license. It is not intended, how- 

 ever, to withdraw the resources of the area 

 from use, and the use of timber, minerals, 

 stone, and other building materials, under 

 certain specified restrictions, will not only be 

 allowed, but encouraged. For hunting and 

 trapping, it will be necessary to have a per- 

 mit. The reserve will be under the admin- 

 istration of the forestry branch of the de- 

 partment of the interior. Chicago Record- 

 Herald. 



Must Look to Her Senators and Representatives 



The agreement which was reached in the 



Senate before Congress adjourned that a 



vote upon the Weeks Forestry Bill should 



be taken on February 15 next is cause for 



some consolation in the face of a failure 



to enact that measure at the present session. 



If reports from Washington are to be trusted, 



there is little reason to doubt the passage 



of the bill at that time; although there is 



some danger of the insertion of amendments, 



and the consequent possibility of its being 



held up in conference between the houses. 



New England will have to look to her sena- 



tors and representatives to avert any such 



disappointment. But, at the best., the fact 



remains that the taking effect of this impera- 



tively needed legislation has been postponed 



practically another year, and that the destruc- 



tion of the forests, which might otherwise 



have been protected, will continue through 



another winter's lumbering season. It is 



impossible to definitely assert what "might 



have been," yet it is not improper to suggest 



that had the forestry bill been brought up 



earlier in the session by Senator Brandegee 



of Connecticut, as he was earnestly urged 



to do by the advocates of the measure, there 



would have been far less incentive to employ 



obstructive or filibustering tactics against it 



such as were only too effectively followed by 



Senator Burton of Ohio. The appearance 



of any bill in the closing days of a con- 



gressional session always offers a temptation 



to the cantankerous to obstruct its passage, 



because of the knowledge that only a com- 



paratively brief objection will cause it to fail. 



It is open to serious doubt whether Senator 



Burton would have felt impelled to make his 



stand had the bill been brought forward at 



an earlier date. Springfield Republican. 



Annual Meeting of New Hampshire Society 



The annual meeting of the Society for the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests will 

 be held on August 2 and 3 at Bretton Woods. 

 There will be an important conference on 

 the forest reserve bill to which a number of- 

 distinguished public men have been invited. 

 Among those who have accepted are Con- 

 gressmen Currier of New Hampshire and 

 Lawrence of Massachusetts. 



The New Hampshire forestry commission 

 is to hold, on the afternoon of the first day, a 

 convention of the town forest fire wardens of 

 the state. Among the topics for discussion 

 there will be "Forest Taxation," "State and 

 Town Forests," "Gypsy and Browntail 

 Moths," and the "Plan for Local Forestry 

 Associations in the Towns." Forest planting 

 and the condition of the mountain forests will 

 be pictured by the stereopticon. All of the 

 sessions will be open to the public. 



The sessions will be presided over by the 

 Hon. Frank W. Rollins, the president of the 

 society, and by the Hon. Robert P. Bass, 

 chairman of the state forestry commission. 



Eucalyptus in California 



George M. Homans, state forester of Cali- 

 fornia, after inspecting 3,000 acres of euca- 

 lyptus plantation in Escondido, Bernardo. 

 and Encinitas, expressed himself as highly 

 pleased with the results which have been at- 

 tained in the growing of eucalyptus in this 

 section. 



Mr. Homans, who recently succeeded G. B. 

 Lull in the office of state forester, has been 

 on a tour of inspection over the state, with 

 especial reference to the eucalyptus industry. 

 It is the idea of his department, he says, to 

 secure all the official data possible concerning 

 the industry and to lend its fostering influ- 

 ence to it. 



Mr. Homans states that California is taking 

 the lead in the raising of eucalyptus. The 

 acreage of eucalyptus in California is now 

 said to be greater than the acreage of all the 

 remaining states of the Union. In the years 

 1909-1910 more than 23,000 acres were set out 

 to eucalyptus trees in California. It is the 

 opinion of Mr. Homans that the industry will 

 become an important one in the state. 



Mr. Homans visited the 600 acres of eu- 

 calyptus at Bernardo, planted by the Euca- 

 lyptus Culture Company of San Francisco; 

 the 700 acres planted by the Pratt Euca- 

 lyptus Company of Los Angeles, under the 

 direction of S. J. Flintham, and the 1,700 

 acres planted by the Santa Fe Railway Com- 

 pany near Encinitas. Las Angeles (Cal.) 

 Examiner. 



