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THE FORESTER. 



March, 



in Herkimer County. The preliminary 

 examination has already been made by one 

 of the experts of the Division of Forestry 

 and the working plan will be prepared 

 this spring. It will contain estimates of 

 the present and future yields of timber on 

 the tract, and will also make recommen- 

 dations regarding the lumbering. This 

 application, taken with those which have 

 been received from other owners of private 

 forest lands in the Adirondacks during the 

 last two years, brings the total area of 

 private land in that region, for which 

 working plans have been requested up to 

 more than 400,000 acres. On 140,000 

 acres these plans are already in operation. 



" The death is announced in his seven- 

 tieth year of Dr. Bernhardt Danckelmann, 

 for the last thirty-five years director of the 

 Prussian Royal Academy of Forestry at 

 Eberswalde. He was one of the first to 

 advocate the training of foresters in special 

 colleges, and was the author of important 

 works on forestry." Science. 



Dr. Danckelmann was the editor of the 

 Zeitsckrift fur Porst- und Jagdzvesen. 



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Work of 



the Philippine 



Forest Bureau. 



The Division of Forestry 

 of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture has se- 

 lected from its working 

 force two trained lumbermen with some 

 knowledge of forestry, to be sent to the 

 Philippine Islands in compliance with a 

 cable request from the Taft Philippine 

 Commission. The persons selected for 

 this work are Mr. Grant Bruce, formerly 

 a State forester in New York, and Mr. 

 Edward Hamilton. Both of these men are 

 expert lumbermen with some training in 

 forestry, and have been selected in view of 

 their special tltness for the Philippinework. 

 The preliminary forest work in the 

 Philippines has been carried on by a 

 Bureau of Forestry which was established 

 in April, 1900, with Capt. George P. 

 Ahem. Ninth United States Infantry, in 

 charge. The work of this Bureau has 

 convinced the Taft Commission of the 

 great importance of the timber lands as a 

 natural source of wealth, and of the neces- 



sity of putting the Bureau on such a footing 

 that it could handle the woodlands properly 

 and effectively. Furthermore, it is evi- 

 dent that the cutting of timber under 

 proper regulations will provide a large 

 and increasing annual revenue. It has 

 been found necessary to permit the cutting 

 of timber to supply the present pressing 

 needs, but care has been taken at the same 

 time that the cutting should be done in a 

 manner that would work no injury to the 

 future growth of the forests. These con- 

 siderations led the commission to cable to 

 Washington for trained foresters to assist 

 in putting the service on a more satisfac- 

 tory footing. 



Under the Spanish administration the 

 timber lands of the Philippine Islands 

 were in charge of a Department of For- 

 estry which was organized in 1863. The 

 personnel of this Department was made 

 up of expert foresters, rangers, clerks, 

 draughtsmen, etc., the higher officials be 

 ing selected from the Spanish Corps of 

 Engineers. 



After Captain Ahern was appointed he 

 received authority to employ a small num- 

 ber of foresters, rangers, and clerks ; by 

 September his office force had been 

 doubled, in order to handle the work of 

 the Bureau properly. The call for activ- 

 ity on the part of those in charge of the 

 Bureau of Forestry was emphasized at 

 once by the lumber famine in Manila 

 and other important towns, owing to the 

 destruction of buildings in the war, and 

 the increased demand for good dwelling 

 houses resulting from the large influx of 

 Americans. For these reasons the felling 

 of trees and the marketing of lumber had 

 to begin soon after the establishment of 

 the Bureau. Captain Ahern is in con- 

 stant communication with the Division 

 of Forestry, for assistance and cooperation 

 with the Philippine Bureau of Forestry. 



The work of that Bureau was confined 

 for some months to the Island of Luzon, 

 but recently it has been carried to other 

 points in the Archipelago. The present 

 plan is to cover all the important forests 

 as the development of the working force 

 will permit. One great difficulty which 

 is delaying the work of the Bureau, is the 







