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THE FORESTER. 



June, 





Walcott, Arnold Hague, and W. J. Mc- 

 Gee have agreed to give papers in the fu- 

 ture, and talks are expected from Vice- 

 President Roosevelt, Secretary Wilson, 

 and others. 



During the last summer 65 student- 

 assistants were in the field. During the 

 winter an average of about 25 were at 

 work in the office. Most of these men 

 will go from the Division to a forest 

 school and will return to the Government 

 work after thorough training. 



Not the least of the results of these 

 meetings has been the creation of a strong 

 esprit de corps among foresters in Wash- 

 ington. 



Lumbermen Perhaps the most encour- 

 and Forestry, aging sign of the day in 

 forest matters is the grow- 

 ing interest of lumbermen. From a nat- 

 ural distrust in the beginning of the forester 

 and his methods, the average lumberman 

 has come to realize that the practice of fores- 

 try is good business, and the number of lum- 

 ber firms who are handling their woodlands 

 on the lines of scientific forestry is rapidly 

 increasing. The lumber trade journals 

 are devoting considerable space to forestry, 

 and we quote the following from an edi- 

 torial in a recent issue of the Lumber- 

 man s Review as showing the position of 

 the lumberman : 



" In the course of a recent lecture on 

 ' Forest Problems in the United States,' 

 delivered by Prof. H. S. Graves, of the 

 forest school of Yale University, the state- 



ment was made that the forests of the 

 United States comprise ar area of 1,100,- 

 ooo square miles, of which less than one- 

 third is under government ownership. Be- 

 tween one-third and one-fourth of the 

 private forests are in small holdings of 

 from five to ten hundred acres. The most 

 difficult problem in connection with the 

 American forests is the management of the 

 250,000,000 acres of forest, land in private 

 ownership as a speculation. Here again we 

 find a forest expert directing special atten- 

 tion to the commercial side of the problem 

 of forestry, and it is worthy of mention that 

 Professor Graves is of that modern school 

 of foresters who, within the past ten years, 

 have brought forest theories, as held in this 

 country, into consonance with the practi- 

 cal commercial ideas held by the timber- 

 land owners and lumber manufacturers. 

 Sentiment has its proper place, but it has 

 never yet been mixed up with the manip- 

 ulation of a large timber tract by a lum- 

 berman. The sentimental side of forestry 

 has been swept aside during the past ten 

 years by the rising tide of practical forest 

 economics. Few lumbermen will place 

 the needs of the next generation paramount 

 to their own present success and comfort. 

 They will strip their tract in two years 

 unless they are convinced that, as a busi- 

 ness proposition, they should simply cull 

 out the mature timber each year, treat the 

 tree as a crop, and reap an annual harvest 

 from their holdings. This is precisely 

 what the forest schools at Yale and Cor- 

 nell and the Division of Forestry at Wash- 

 ington claim an ability to demonstrate." 



NEWS, NOTES, AND COMMENT. 



Government The government forest ex- 

 Forest Exhibit hibit prepared by the Di- 

 at Buffalo. vision of Forestry, U. S. 



Department of Agricul- 

 ture, for the Pan-American Exposition at 

 Buffalo, N. Y., consists entirely of a pho- 

 tographic display. This display includes 

 sixty-two colored and uncolored transpar- 

 encies, ranging in size from 20 x 24 inches 



to 4S x 60 inches. Two of the transparen- 

 cies are 4x10 feet, the largest ever made. 

 The subjects illustrated are: Lumber- 

 ing, and its effects on forest reproduction ; 

 the effects of forest fires on forest land, 

 and the relation of such denudation to 

 the flow of water in streams and the sup- 

 ply of water for irrigation. The princi- 

 pal types of trees are illustrated, to show 



