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THE FORESTER. 



August, 



istering the public forest lands, both re- 

 served and unreserved, may well continue 

 indefinitely, unless law intervenes to unite 

 the powers of that office with those of the 

 Division of Forestry, either under the De- 

 partment of Agriculture or under the De- 

 part of the Interior. " 'Tis a consumma- 

 tion devoutly to be wished." A clearer 

 understanding of what forest work is and 

 should be, the favorable attitude of Con- 

 gress showed in its increased appropria- 



tions for the current year, and the vast and 

 widening field for forestry throughoutflthe 

 country, all point directly to a radical re- 

 organization of the offices now charged 

 with forest work. Till that reorganization 

 has been made all effort in the right direc- 

 tion is hampered and in part nullified 

 by checks and hindrances which are as 

 easy of legislative removal as they are op- 

 posed to reason and common sense. 

 ( To be continued. ) 



THE YALE FOREST SCHOOL BUILDING. 



The photographs, reproduced on the 

 opposite page, show the building which 

 will be used for the Yale Forest School. 

 The property was left to the University 

 b\ the late Professor O. C. Marsh, who 

 wished it to be used for a botanical garden. 

 Inasmuch as the funds of the University 

 do not permit the establishment of such a 

 garden, the estate will be devoted for the 

 present to the uses of the Forest School. 



The house is admirably adapted for the 

 purposes of instruction. A large entrance 

 hall on the first floor will be used for a 

 general assembly room, and the other 

 rooms on this floor will be converted into 

 offices and recitation rooms. On the sec- 

 ond floor there will be a laboratory, a 

 library, and an herbarium room. The 

 museum specimens will be placed at first 



about the assembly room, until the ma- 

 terial collected justifies the use of a separate 

 room for this purpose. 



Surrounding the house there are ten 

 acres of land, on which have been planted 

 a large variety of trees and shrubs. A 

 certain amount of planting will be done 

 on the grounds for arboretum purposes, 

 and a forest nursery will also be estab- 

 lished. The material from this nursery 

 will, however, eventually be planted on 

 the tract at the outskirts of New Haven 

 which will be used for the chief practical 

 forest work of the students while they are 

 in New Haven. 



There are two greenhouses on the place 

 which will be maintained in view of their 

 probable use in connection with the botan- 

 ical garden. 



THE LAST REPORTS ON THE FOREST RESERVES. 



I 'art V. of the Geological Survey's 2oth 

 Annual Report* contains a great deal of 

 information about th*e general condition 

 of ten of the national reserves, in which 



Twentieth Annual report of the U. S. Geo- 



cy. Part V. Forest Reserves; 



Hei 7 Gannett, Chief of Division. Reports bv 



Henry (iaimrtt, John G. Jack. George B. Sud- 



rth.II. !!. kyres, and John B. Leiberg. 



For a review of 1'art V. of the Nineteenth 



">rt, the first report on the Forest Reserves, 



THE FOKISTI u for March, 1900 (VI., 3, 



foresters, botanists and everyone can be 

 interested. Besides this there is much 

 material relating to the climate and topog- 

 raphy of the reserves, and to the varieties 

 of trees to be found in them, their distri- 

 bution, etc., for all of which those who 

 are interested in it will go to the complete 

 text. The most impressive thing about 

 the parts of these reports which will be 

 of interest to the general reader, is the 

 clearness with which they show that these 

 reserves, which have been set apart for 



