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numerous additions to this Association's also been made in the Lewis and Clark 



membership indicate the practical way in Reserve in Montana ; the San Bernardino 



which the country is taking up forestry. and Sierra Reserves in California; the 



That the interest has everywhere ceased Prescott, San Francisco Mountains and 



to be chiefly sentimental is shown most Black Mesa Reserves in Arizona, and the 



clearly by the number of students now Bighorn Reserve in Wyoming. Thus 



registered in the three forest schools. At this year has seen the first step toward 



Cornell there are twenty-four, four of them conservative lumbering in the National 



seniors ; at Biltmore there are nine ; at Forest Reserves. 



Yale, where the new forest school was The investigation of the grazing ques- 



started in October under the most favor- tion, which is also being made by the De- 



able circumstances with Prof. Henry S. partment of Agriculture at the request of 



Graves at its head and Prof. J. W. Tourney the Secretary of the Interior, has been 



as assistant professor, there are seven. prosecuted in fifteen reserves. 



This summer there have also been be- During the last year the important and 

 tween sixty and seventy student assistants successful work of the Geological Survey 

 at work in the field under the Division of in sui"veyingand mapping the National Re- 

 Forestry. The applications for the posi- pv>rp<?t Wn lr serves has been continued, 

 tion reached the large total of 232. n th P Mi and full reports and maps 

 During the past year a new national T , covering the Pike's Peak, 

 reserve has been set aside by presidential " Plum Creek, South Platte, 

 proclamation the Crow Creek Forest Re- Battlement Mesa, and White River Plateau 

 fhansTp? in thp serve in Wyoming, con- Reserves in Colorado; the San Gabriel, 

 n 7^ taining about 86 square San Bernardino, and San Jacinto Reserves 

 miles. The Olympic in Southern California ; and the Flathead 

 Forest Reserve in Washington has been and Bitter Root Reserves in Montana and 

 cut down by 360 square miles; the area Wyoming, have been published. Further 

 thrown open to settlement being chiefly statistics about the timber resources of 

 in the northwestern corner of the Reserve Washington have also appeared. Ex- 

 where there were already a large number animations and surveys of the forested and 

 of private holdings. The Bighorn Re- burnt-over lands of northern Minnesota 

 serve of Wyoming has been increased by have been completed and reports are now 

 the addition of 83 square miles on the in press. The surveys of the Olympic 

 southwest and southeast sides of the Re- Reserve in Washington have been corn- 

 serve, pleted and the country between the Wash- 

 Along advance toward a proper manage- ington Reserve, and the Mt. Rainier For- 

 ment of the public forests has been marked est Reserve has been surveyed. In 

 by the request of the Secretary of the In- California surveys have been made in the 

 terior made to the Department of Agricul- northern Sierras, and the forest survey of 

 ture last spring, for the preparation of the Sierra Reserve has been nearly finished, 

 working plans for all of the national re- The work of the Hydrographic Division 

 serves. The area for which working of the Geological Survey has in several 

 plans have thus been requested is so large places touched the forest interests of the 

 in proportion to the Department's all too country more closely than usual. In the 

 small resources for forest work that it has Adirondacks the forest work of the Divi- 

 only been possible to begin the work in sion of Forestry is being combined with 

 a few places this year. It has, however, the work of the Hydrographer, in the in- 

 been possible to make the summer's surveys terests of the flow of water in the streams, 

 cover fully the Black Hills Forest Reserve and of the maintenance of the lake levels, 

 where the conditions, for a tract of over In the Appalachian park region, the hydro- 

 one million acres, are unusually favorable graphic surveys have similarly been con- 

 for forest management. Preliminary ex- ducted in close cooperation with what is 

 animations for future working plans have more strictly forest work. 



