AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



ndividual types those most suitable for 

 ylvan culture a system now adopted by 

 r rance, Switzerland and other countries 

 vhere new plantations are made from 

 hese improved types ; and 



Whereas, the proper selection and intro- 

 luction of tropical fruits and economic 

 >lants for culture under our climatic con- 

 litions demands a station for testing the 

 )lants procured from various regions of 

 he world by the Department of Agricul- 

 ure ; and 



Whereas, the study of Botany by means 

 f botanical gardens maintained by the 

 government is universally recognized by 

 .11 countries as the duty of those govern- 

 nents ; and 



Whereas, both the agricultural and 

 brest work of the United States requires 

 in outdoor winter station for work and 

 raining of the service, for plant and tree 

 jropagation, and 



Whereas, no other district in the United 

 3tates is as well suited to these objects and 



to all of these objects as is this fine and 

 ample territory : 



We therefore urge the Department of 

 Agriculture to accept and maintain that 

 tract of land tendered by the Mayor and 

 City of Los Angeles, as donated by one 

 of our public spirited citizens, G. J. Grif- 

 fith, comprising over three thousand acres, 

 for the purposes mentioned. We believe 

 that no more suitable location can be found, 

 comprising in its borders a mountain of 

 over 1600 feet giving north and east slopes 

 for forest plantations, while there exist on 

 its southern aspects valleys surrounded and 

 protected by hills, having a tropical cli- 

 mate suitable for the culture of tropical 

 and semi-tropical plants. We would earn- 

 estly urge the necessity of such a station 

 as a point for propagating and distributing 

 plants suitable for culture in the United 

 States, and by so doing to build up our 

 agricultural possibilities so necessary for 

 the support and maintenance of a great 

 nation. 



Unextinguished Camp Fires 



BY A COLLABORATOR OF THE DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



It has been my belief that the forest 

 iies of northern Colorado which in recent 

 rears have denuded extensive areas were 

 argely the result of carelessness on the 

 >art of hunters and campers. During a 

 'ecent trip through the mountains this be- 

 ief was greatly strengthened by finding 

 hree unextinguished camp fires, and by 

 racing two small burns with reasonable 

 :ertainry to an origin in camp fires thus 

 eft. 



The two burned areas examined were 

 mich alike ; one covered possibly one 

 lundred acres, the other three times as 

 nan}-. Both were on steep, rocky, tim- 

 bered slopes that terminated below in 

 >pen, grassy glades bordering streams. 

 Fhey were of long triangular shape, the 

 ipices at the edge of the timber on the 

 jlade, the bases high up the slopes and 



running squarely across them. The points 

 in both cases came down to small collec- 

 tions of boulders about which were abun- 

 dant evidences of camp fires. The forms 

 of the areas burned seemed easily ac- 

 counted for by the surroundings. The up- 

 ward spread would naturally be the most 

 rapid, and the lateral spread would widen 

 as the dryer ground above was reached. 



Of the three unextinguished fires, one 

 was on a tributary of the Laramie River 

 near an old and deserted tie camp cabin. 

 The surrounding country for miles had 

 been burned over again and again, and 

 while some new coniferous growth was 

 beginning to come in, there was nothing 

 to feed an extensive fire, and hence no im- 

 pending danger from this particular fire. 

 Possibly the campers who left it burning 

 were actuated by consideration of the sur- 



