PHILIPPINE FORESTRY 541 



less it is certified by the Bureau of to secure a continuous timber supply, 

 Forestry that the land is "more valu- the protection of watersheds, and a rev- 

 able for agriculture than for forest enue for the insular government, 

 uses." The dendrological work includes the 



The laws contained in the Forest Act botanical identification of tree species, 



are all that could be asked for as a basis and technological study of the struc- 



upon which to build up a proper system ture, characteristics, and quantity of 



of forest conservation for the Philip- the woods of different species. This 



pines. All that is needed is more money work is carried on in cooperation with 



and trained forest experts to carry on the Bureau of Science. The work in- 



the work. eludes, also, timber testing and dura- 

 bility tests, wood preservatives, and 



PRESENT WORK OF THE BUREAU uses and market value of the different 



kinds of woods. A museum of speci- 



The work of the Bureau of Forestry mens of Philippine woods has been es- 



is carried on under two divisions that tablished, and the public has access to 



of administration and that of investiga- the information relative to Philippine 



tion. woods collected by the division of in- 



The work qf the division of admin- vestigation. 



istration includes : Granting and inspec- Education and propaganda work in 

 tion of timber licenses, including cut- forestry is under this division, includ- 

 ting regulations to perpetuate the for- ing publication of results of forest in- 

 est ; patrol against caingins and tres- vestigations and forestry work. The 

 pass ; fines for violations of the Forest aim is to educate the people to the im- 

 Act ; inspection of public land applied portance of forest conservation ; to keep 

 for to be leased, bought, or home- the people informed concerning the ac- 

 steaded ; working plans for large lum- tual work in forestry of the bureau, and 

 her concessions in cooperation with di- its results, and to indicate chances for 

 vision of investigation. For carrying profitable exploitation of Philippine for- 

 out the above lines of work, the islands est resources. This is done through 

 are divided into three administrative publications of the bureau, by news- 

 districts, with a trained American for- paper and magazine articles, and by il- 

 ester in charge of each, assisted, by a lustrated lectures. The Bureau of For- 

 number of Filipino rangers. The for- estry must have the hearty support of 

 ester is continuously on the move, and all patriotic Filipinos, and hence the im- 

 even then is barely able to cover his en- portance of this propaganda work, 

 tire district once within a year, and The silvicultural investigation work 

 much of the work has to be done by includes studies of natural and artifi- 

 rangers working alone. cial reproduction, especially of important 



The work of the division of investi- species ; forest types or associations of 

 gation includes: Mapping and land tree species in the forest; rate of growth 

 classification ; dendrological work ; edu- and form of different species, with mill- 

 cation and publication ; silvicultural in- scale work to determine how much lum- 

 vestigations, and working plans.^ ber trees of different sizes and species 



The division is mapping the different w ju Cll ^ 



classes of land, or broad vegetative Working plans, or plans of manage- 

 types. It has already completed Luzon ment fof argas of bUc forests which 

 and Mindoro, the maps showing roughly h j bg anentl held in forest 

 the location of the following classes of ^ inyesti _ 

 land: Commercial forest, non-commer- . . 

 cial forest, grass land, and land under gation in cooperation with admmistra- 

 cultivation. These maps furnish the tlon - The work of the former fur- 

 basis for determining what areas should nishes the basis for proper forest man- 

 be permanently held in public forests agement of public forests by the latter 

 or forest reserves and so managed as division it investigates, collects infor- 



