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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



;ation in check for a while. This great 

 latural reservoir cannot be emptied sud- 

 denly as can the artificial one, by opening 

 :he flood-gates, neither can it be re-filled 

 jo quicklv, owing to the slow process of 

 Dercolation. What are we to do to fill 

 uid keep full this great reservoir? First 

 of all, prevent fire from burning off the 

 :rees and brush. The fires in destroying 

 :he foliage not only permit the sun and 

 wind to evaporate a large per cent, of the 

 \vater, but consume the humus that does 

 ^0 much to hold the water in check, acts 

 is a mulch to prevent evaporation and 

 permit percolation; after fire the rain de- 

 posits a cement on the surface with the 

 ishes, that prevents percolation, and c<>n- 

 ;entrates the water into torrents, tearing 

 jut great quantities of debris to cover up 

 md Hood the fertile valleys." 



forestry in Aikan- The Sawyer and Austin 

 sas. Lumber Company, which 



)wns 85,000 acres of short leaf Pine land 

 fin Grant, Jefferson, and Saline counties, 

 Arkansas, recently applied to the Division 

 i)f Forestry for a detailed working plan 

 !:or their tract. The preliminary examina- 

 tion has been made and a favorable report 

 [submitted to the company. A contract 

 las now been drawn up between the Saw- 

 der and Austin Lumber Company and the 

 Hvision of Forestry, in which the latter 

 igrees to make a thorough investigation of 

 r.he tract and to make out a detailed work- 

 ng plan and the Lumber Company under- 

 takes to pay the expenses of experts of the 

 )ivision in the field. 



from the boilers for an hour or more. 

 Some days ago their men saw a fire in an 

 old Hemlock slashing about two and a-half 

 miles from a landing where they had a 

 million and a half Hemlock and Pine logs. 

 They ran to town with a locomotive and 

 hooked up to the fire department car. 

 They were back in about a half an hour. 

 but the fire had moved more rapidly than 

 they, and the logs were just a charred lot 

 of stubs when they reached the landing." 

 ''i V^allcy Lumberman. 



Assistant Pro- At a meeting of the Yale 

 fessor of Fores- Corporation, on May 22t\i 

 try at Yale. p ro f e ssor J. W. Tourney 

 was elected Assistant Professor of Fores- 

 try- The Yale Forest School is very for- 

 tunate in securing the services of Professor 

 Tourney. He was formerly connected 

 with the Arizona Agricultural College, as 

 Professor of Botany and Horticulture, and 

 was for a time Acting Director of the Ex- 

 periment Station. For about a year he 

 has been the .Superintendent of Tree- 

 Planting in the Division of Forestry. His 

 training in the Division and previously in 

 the West has given him a wide knowledge 

 of forestry, especially along the lines of 

 'tree planting. The courses which will be 

 given by Professor Tourney will be Forest 

 Botany, Outlines of Forestry, Forest Plant- 

 ing and Sowing, Forest Technology, Lum- 

 bering, and Forest Protection. 



An Ancient 

 Cedar. 



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" A Cedar tree whose age 



The Fire Came 

 too Fast. 



" The North Western 

 Lumber Co., had an experi- 

 ence near their plant at Stanley that illus- 

 trated how rapidly fire moves when it gets 

 under headway. They are pretty well 

 prepared for emergencies of the kind, but 

 in this case protection did not protect. 

 They have mounted two old boilers on a 

 pat car with a small engine, and when it 

 -.becomes necessary run a hose from the 

 locomotive, to furnish steam. With this 

 j:hey can keep a stream of water running 



has been reckoned by geolo- 

 gists at twenty-five thousand years has 

 been found in California, standing in 

 an excellently preserved state, the fibers 

 so perfect and the wood so strong that 

 it was cut up and used for timbering in 

 the construction of a mining tunnel. This 

 remarkable instance of the preservation 

 of organic remains was found in the 

 heart of a mountain, perhaps five hundred 

 feet below the summit. This mountain is 

 a spur of the Sierra Nevadas, near the 

 Forest Hill divide, in Placer County, be- 

 tween the North and Middle forks of the 

 American River. 



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