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Vol. VI. 



AUGUST, 1900. 



No. 8. 



The appointment of 

 Mr Henry S Graves 

 as Professor of r ores- 

 try in the Yale Forest School, and of Prof. 

 J. W. Tourney as his assistant, has de- 

 prived the Division of Forestry of the Ag- 

 ricultural Department of two of its heads 

 of sections. Professor Graves has been in 

 charge of the Section of Working Plans 

 since its inauguration, and Professor 

 Tourney has been Superintendent of Tree 

 Planting since his connection with the 

 Division. Under the administration of 

 Mr. Graves the Section of Working Plans 

 has furnished the larger portion of the 

 rapid growth which has characterized the 

 Division of Forestry in the last two years. 

 Beginning with a comparatively small 

 area, the applications for working plans 

 under the cooperative scheme of his 

 section have now extended to approxi- 

 mately 50,000,000 acres, including all of 

 the National Forest Reserves, the whole 

 of the Forest Preserve of the State of 

 New York in the Adirondacks and Cats- 

 kills, and about 2,000,000 acres of private 

 lands. Under Professor Tourney's admin- 

 istration the Section of Tree Planting, 

 organized on a similar cooperative basis, 

 has had very marked success, and is now 

 thoroughly established in a career of spe- 

 cial usefulness. 



It is greatly to the credit of both of 

 these gentlemen that the organizations 



which they have conducted and which 

 they are about to leave have been so 

 firmly established under them that the 

 work will suffer no interruption by their 

 departure. Mr. Graves' place as Super- 

 intendent of Working Plans and Assistant 

 Chief will be taken by Mr. Overtoil W. 

 Price of the Division. Before entering 

 the Division Mr. Price had an exception- 

 ally thorough training as a forester. After 

 graduating from the University of Vir- 

 ginia, he studied for a while at Biltmore, 

 N. C., and thus was at the great advantage 

 of having had practical experience in 

 this country before he went abroad. In 



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Europe he spent nearly three years, chiefly 

 in Switzerland and Germany, where he 

 worked under Sir Dietrich Brandis, for- 

 merly Director of the British Forest ser- 

 vice in India. He also studied for awhile 

 at Munich. He entered the Division of 

 Forestry a year ago. The position of 

 Superintendent of Tree Planting has yet 

 to be filled. 



The contribution of Professors Graves 

 and Tourney to the progress of forestry in 

 the United States through the Yale Forest 

 School will be not less conspicuously use- 

 ful than it has been while they were mem- 

 bers of the Division of Forestry. 



Reserves and the 



American 

 Lumberman. 



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In its issue of July 

 7, the American Lum- 

 berman took occasion 

 to publish the following editorial : " If a 

 plan of any forest reserve or government 

 park that is timbered in whole or in part 

 contemplates the non-utilization of the tim- 

 ber it is a mistaken one, for natural resources 

 should not go to waste as timber will if not 

 cared for and marketed in season. But if the 

 timber is handled as a commercial proposi- 

 tion and judiciously put on the market in 

 fair competition there can be little or no ob- 

 jection to the incorporating of almost any 

 quantity of timber owned by the govern- 

 ment into a reserve." 



The truth of this is undeniable, but it is 

 also undenied, and one wonders for whose 

 edification the Lumber in an saw fit to give 

 it space. It is sad to find a lumber journal, 

 which in importance is second to none in 



