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THE FORESTER. 



April, 



A New National Park. 



By an act of Congress approved March 

 2, 1899, a tract of land eighteen miles 

 square, embracing in all 207,360 acres, 

 and including Mount Rainier itself, was 

 withdrawn from the Mount Ramier For- 



est Reserve and dedicated to the pur- 

 poses of a national park. It is to be 

 known as the Mount Rainier National 

 Park. The Mount Rainier Forest Re- 

 serve thus reduced contains 2,027,520 

 acres. 



Educational. 



The College of Forestry recently added 

 to the curriculum of the University of 

 Southern California, was formally opened 

 in the college building at West Los 

 Angeles yesterday morning. The exer- 

 cises and lectures were held in the bio- 

 logical lecture room, and will continue 

 to be given there for the present. After 

 a few remarks by President George W. 

 White the first lecture in the course was 

 delivered by the Hon. Abbot Kinney. 

 In an exhaustive discourse upon "The 

 History of Forestry and Its Need in 

 Southern California," Mr. Kinney set 

 forth the original cause of a study of 

 forestry in the dependence of primitive 

 man upon the forest and its products for 

 subsistence. The nations of Europe 

 have made a science of forestry and it is 

 conducted under governmental super- 

 vision. 



To Southern California, v/ith its tree- 

 less plains and scant rainfall, this subject 

 is all-important, and this school will 

 meet the want by turning out trained for- 

 esters, who will carry out this work under 

 Government control. Their efforts will 

 be directed to preserving and enlarging 

 the present forest area on our watersheds. 



At 1.20 p. m., Professor O. P. Phillips 

 addressed the students upon "The 

 Botany of Tree Growth." In brief he 

 described the method of tree growth and 



the absorption of moisture from the 

 atmosphere by the leaves and the slow 

 evaporation of the moisture from the 

 soil through the trees. 



Prof. Laird J. Stabler followed with a 

 lecture on "Soil Physics." He described 

 the meteorological instruments used in 

 practical forestry and explained the effect 

 of forests on the rainfall 

 Herald, March 4. 



Los Angeles 



Mr. Peter Barr, a prominent horticul- 

 turist and arborist, of London, I5ng. r 

 who is visiting Ottawa at present, makes 

 a suggestion that is well worth the atten- 

 tion of the Government. It is the estab- 

 lishment of a School of Forestry for 

 instruction in the propagation and con- 

 serving of the forests. Much attention is 

 being directed to this branch throughout 

 the British Empire, especially in India, 

 where it is a well-organized departmental 

 work, the country being divided into dis- 

 tricts under foresters and rangers. There 

 is no School of Forestry in the British 

 dominions in North America, and Mr. 

 Barr thinks that the Imperial authorities 

 would make a grant for the support of 

 such an institution where thorough in- 

 struction could be imparted in the 

 growth, care and preservation of timber, 

 and that Ottawa is just the place for its 

 location. Canada Lumberman . 



