THE FORESTER. 



August, 



portant duties devolving upon him will be 

 the prosecution of persons who start forest 

 fires wilfully, negligently, or in violation of 

 rules and regulations of the Commission. 

 Mr. Ralph C. Bryant, the first graduate 

 of the State College of Forestry at Cor- 

 nell, was recently appointed an Inspector 

 or Assistant Forester, and, having passed 

 the Civil Service examination satisfac- 

 torily, has been assigned by the Superin- 

 tendent of Forests to Township 8, Herki- 

 mer County, where he will inspect the 

 lumbering operations which are being car- 

 ried on there, and see that the timber is 

 cut in accordance with the terms of the 

 contract. Although this township is owned 

 by the State it was subject to a lumber 

 contract at the time it was purchased by 

 the Forest Preserve Board. Part of In- 

 spector Bryant's duties will be to see that 

 no trees are cut which are smaller than the 

 diameter specified in the contract; and 

 also to enforce certain other provisions 

 relating to the trimming of the tops which 

 are left by the jobbers after the logs are 

 skidded this trimming being necessary 

 in order to lessen the danger from fire. 



A forestry camp has been established 

 on Township 40, Hamilton County, the 

 tract on which Raqtiette Lake is situated. 

 The party occupying it is under the charge 

 of Mr. Ralph S. Hosmer, of the For- 



v Division at Washington, and is busily 

 engaged in making working-plans for 

 lumbering the township, in accordance 

 with the plan of cooperation between the 

 Division of Forestry and the New York 

 Fisheries, Forest and Game Commission 

 which was described in the FORESTER for 

 It is expected that these plans will 



-ubmitted to the Legislature for ap- 

 proval at its next session. There are 

 eleven men in this camp, including the 

 two recently appointed State Forest In- 

 spectors, H. S. Meekham and Grant 

 Bruce. With this party there are also 

 Eugene S. Bruce and five student-assist- 

 ants from the Division of Forestry. The 



ip is pleasantly situated on the shore 



<>t' Raquette Lake, its white tents partly 



Iden by the trees. A tall flagstaff from 



! ' IK-its a large national flag, marks 



the location plainly. 



The Forest Preserve Board is meeting 

 each month either at Albany or at some 

 place in the Adirondacks, and at each 

 meeting extensive purchases of forest lands 

 are made. As a result, the acreage of the 



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State Forest Preserve is rapidly increasing. 

 It is expected that another and a larger 

 appropriation for the further extension of 

 the Preserve will be made by the Legisla- 

 ture next winter. 



Lumbering, Drought, " While the present 



and Liminished d r v season is, as it 



were, an accidental 



circumstance, still the question of log driv- 

 ing is growing more important each year. 

 The forests are being cut back steadily 

 and more dependence is necessarily placed 

 on the more distant and smaller streams. 

 A drought which a few years ago would 

 have been a temporary inconvenience only, 

 to-day serves to hang up enormous drives 

 of logs for an entire year." - L timber 

 Trade Joiirnal. 



" Figures made public Thursday by the 

 surveyor of logs for the Minneapolis 

 (Minn.) district show a reduction of ^o 

 per cent, in the production of White Pine 

 lumber for June as compared with June, 

 1899. During the past month 312,948 

 logs were scaled, aggregating 24,292,230 

 feet, as against 520,129 logs aggregating 

 49,199,000 feet for the same month a year 

 ago. This amounts to a reduction of a 

 little over 49 per cent, and was due to the 

 inability to float logs to the sorting gap, 

 owing to the drouth and the low stage of 

 water in the Mississippi River all through 

 the month." -American Lumberman, 



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On Tune 2gth Presi- 



Additions to the Big i & r rr- i i 



Horn Reserve. dent McKinley signed 



a proclamation which 



has added to the Big Horn Forest Reserve 

 of Wyoming the areas indicated in heavy 

 black in the accompanying map. This en- 

 largement of the reserve brings within its 

 boundaries a number of areas which are 

 covered with timber, and also brings the 

 limits of the reserve into better harmony 

 with the topography of the country by ex- 



