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THE FORESTER. 



March, 



the same State. A third paper is to follow, 

 which will complete the set of three, dealing 

 with irrigation in San Joaquin Valley, of which 

 Nos. 17 and 18 are the' first and second. The 

 papers give careful and graphic descriptions 

 of the local methods of irrigation, and are 

 specially well illustrated with maps and half- 

 tones. 



was enlarged to include more than 2,200,000 

 acres, since which time it has been known as 

 the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve. 



Glaciers of Mount Rainier, by Israel Cook 

 Russell ; with a paper on The Rocks of Mount 

 Rainier, by George Olis Smith. This pam- 

 phlet is an extract from The Eighteenth Annual 

 Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, Part 

 II. These papers are chiefly of a theoretic 

 nature but they contain much that is of general 

 interest and many illustrations a^ well. Mount 

 Rainier lies eleven miles west of the crest of 

 the Cascade Mountains and forty-two miles 

 southeast of the city of Tacoma and in the 

 northern part of the great forest reserve which 

 bears its name. The forests by which it is 

 surrounded, especially those on the side toward 

 Puget Sound, are among the most magnificent 

 on the continent. The Pacific Forest Reserve, 

 an area about thirty-five mites square, was 

 originally made by proclamation of President 

 Harrison in 1S93. By proclamation of President 

 Cleveland, dated February 22, 1897, this reserve 



American Lumber, by B. E. Fernow, in 

 The Chatauquan for February. 



This is a popular article, which gives im- 

 portant facts about American lumber ; the 

 various species now used, the development of 

 the lumber industry in the last fifty years 

 attributed chiefly to the railroads the pros- 

 pects of future development and supply, and 

 the statistics which serve as a basis for calcu- 

 lations in dealing with the treatment of our 

 forests and with the problem of permanent 

 supply. It notes that though we possess in all 

 not more than 500,000,000 acres of so-called 

 forest land, yet millions of acres within this 

 area are barren of merchantable timber, while 

 if our present rate of consumption is to go on, 

 we need 600,000,000 acres under full forest. It 

 emphasizes our wastefulness in using wood 

 where stone or iron would be better, and 

 points out that lumbermen of intelligence all 

 over the country are alive to the fact that the 

 forester stands for their own better judgment. 

 Dr. Fernow does not neglect to call attention 

 once more to the great variety of useful species 

 which renders our country unique. 



