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THE FORESTER. 



November, 



Formerly the miners stripped the timber 

 from the slopes of the streams on which 

 their mines were located ; now they are 

 haviner the lesson of the relation of forests 

 to stream flow driven home very forcibly. 

 They are obliged to spend thousands of 

 dollars building flumes to convey water 

 from other streams, which have not been 

 cut over. The mine owners especially 

 have come to realize, by bitter experience, 

 that their properties are nearly worthless 

 without wood and water; and they will 

 heartily support the Government in meas- 

 ures looking toward forest protection. 



One of their greatest needs is for cord- 

 wood, and they are often willing to buy 

 the dead standing and down timber with- 

 out touching the green timber. Under 

 such conditions where there is a steady 

 demand for cordwood, which can be made 

 from the tops and dead timber, an ad- 



equate supply is in this way easily se- 

 cured, while the forester can depend on 

 a fine natural reproduction for restocking 

 the blanks produced by lumbering. An 

 excellent system of roads throughout the 

 Reserve, makes practicable the transporta- 

 tion of lumber and logs for long distances. 

 The revenue from the sale of timber in 

 the Black Hills Forest Reserve, is suffi- 

 cient to pay for its supervision, and also 

 that of the Big Horn and Teton Reserves 

 in Wyoming. In point of revenue, de- 

 mand for timber, population, and accessi- 

 bility it is the most important of all the 

 forest reserves. Public sentiment favors it 

 heartily, andjthe Reserve to be of great eco- 

 nomic value to the community, onlv needs 

 a thoroughly honest, efficient, and busi- 

 nesslike administration, which, in the 

 past, unfortunately, has often been lack- 



ing. 



THE HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION.* 



Illustrations reprinted here through the courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co. 



Although there has been a steady stream Kadiak Island. For the comfort and 

 of books and magazine articles on Alaska safety of his family a large steamer and 

 during recent years, the publication in crew was required, and as preparations 

 popular form of the results of 

 the Harriman Alaska Expedi- 

 tion, of 1S99, will be welcomed 

 by the public. 



This work contains the re- 

 sults of one of the most remark- 

 able scientific expeditions ever 

 organized, and the discoveries 

 made by the Harriman party in 

 the fields of zoology, botany, 

 ornithology, etc., are of the 

 greatest value. 



The Expedition was origi- 

 nally planned by Mr. Edward 

 II. Harriman, as a summer 

 cruise for the pleasure and re- 

 creation of his family and a 

 few friends. It was at first 

 intended to proceed along the 

 Alaska coast only as far as 



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ESKIMO WOMEN, PLOVER BAY. 



*The Harriman Alaska Expedition, pub- 

 lished by Doubleday, Page & Co. New York. 

 1901. 8vo, with 40 colored plates, 85 photo- 

 gravures, 5 maps, and 240 illustrations in the 

 text. 2 pp. 500, 2 vols. Price $15.00, net. 



were on a scale disproportionate to the 



size of the party, Mr. Harriman decided 



to use his own words " to include 



some guests who, while adding to the in- 



