1900. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



preme importance. 



no graver 



tural one, and just at present it is of su- 



History teaches that 

 mistake can be made by any 

 community than that which results in the 

 destruction of natural windbreaks and 

 forest shelters. Secretary of Agriculture 

 Wilson has done much already to create a 

 sentiment in favor of forestry, but the 

 question is a scientific rather than a polit- 

 ical one. Congressmen have shown little 

 disposition to take action. Commercial, 

 New York City. 



Yale Forestry School. 



Yale University has received from 

 donors who wish the amount and their 

 names withheld, a substantial gift, suffi- 

 cient to enable the college authorities to 

 establish a School of Forestry according 

 to plans which have been outlined hereto- 

 fore by President Hadley in various 

 speeches before alumni associations. The 

 gift will be utilized in connection with 

 the handsome residential property on 

 Prospect Hill left by the late Professor O. 

 C. Marsh for the establishment of a School 

 of Botany. 



To Expedite Timber Cutting. 



A bill amendatory of the la\v governing 

 the disposition of timber on forest re- 

 serves for building and fuel purposes is 

 being prepared by Representative Gamble 

 of South Dakota for legislative action. 

 The proposed law is general in terms, but 

 is meant to apply particularly to the Black 

 Hills country whence there have come 

 complaints regarding the delay in action 

 in applications for permission to remove 

 timber. 



This is caused by the regulations which 

 provide that sixty days' notice shall be 

 given. The new measure proposes to 

 reduce the time of notice to thirty days. 



The Vanishing Pine Forests. 



In northern Minnesota an army of 15,- 

 DOO men will attack the standing Pine this 

 Winter, assisted by thousands of horses 

 ind oxen. The men will receive an ag- 

 gregate monthly wage of about $400,000, 

 md they will be employed until the Spring 

 areak-up. Cleveland/Va/ Dealer. 



Forest Utilization. 



William Rockefeller, of New York City, 

 who owns a tract of 60,000 acres at Bay 

 Pond, Franklin County, New 7 York, on 

 which he has built a hunting and fishing 

 lodge, has applied to the Division of For- 

 estry for a working-plan for the entire 

 tract. Much of the land has been 



over, but there is a large tract of virgin 

 timber which has passed the stages of 

 greatest production in a natural state and 

 is lying idle. A plan is desired by which 

 the mature timber can be turned into reve- 

 nue without injury to the forest as a game 

 preserve. 



National Forest Administration. 



The Department of the Interior has re- 

 cently applied to the Department of Agri- 

 culture for complete working plans, to be 

 prepared by the Division of Forestry, for 

 all of the National forest reservations in the 

 West. This is one of the most important 

 steps taken in the administration of these 

 reserves since their creation by the Presi- 

 dent and will, eventually, transform them 

 into a revenue-producing part of the na- 

 tional economy. Several years will be re- 

 quired to execute the project. 



To Encourage Tree Planting. 



W. L. Hall, assistant superintendent of 

 tree planting, of the Division of Forestry, 

 will leave shortly for the Middle West 

 and Southwest, where he will be occu- 

 pied during March, April, May and June 

 in the preparation of planting plans for 

 lands in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma 

 and Kansas. This is in connection with 

 the division's offer to furnish assistance 

 to land owners. At a number of places 

 meetings will be held to further popular 

 interest in tree-planting. Mr. Hall will 

 illustrate with stereopticon views some 

 interesting phases of forestry as pertain- 

 ing to the Middle West. 



An Eastern View. 



The "eternal vigilance" which often 

 times seems a characteristic of " Yankee" 

 success is brought to notice prominently 

 by the following comment of the JVew 





