The Forester. 



Vol. VII. 



DECEMBER, 190] 



No. 



NEWS, NOTES, AND COMMENT. 



Change of Beginning with the Ian- 



Name, uary number The For- 



, '^^t ester will be combined 



with National Irrigation and published 

 under the title of Forestry and Irrigation. 

 The new magazine will be an improve- 

 ment in every way over the present one. 

 It will contain additional pages of reading 

 matter, more illustrations, and will be 

 printed on better paper. 



The reasons for the combination of these 

 two magazines are as follows : The Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association has been pub- 

 lishing The Forester, and the National 

 Irrigation Association through the Chair- 

 man of its Executive Committee has been 

 publishing National Irrigation. It has 

 been felt for some time that both organiza- 

 tions needed a better magazine. The two 

 associations and their work have grown,' 

 likewise the causes they represent. 



Since the objects of the organizations are 

 in many instances identical, it is believed 

 that one publication covering the whole 

 field can be produced at a less relative cost 

 and upon a higher standard than that 

 reached by two independent publica- 

 tions. 



The new magazine will take the place 

 of The Forester as the official organ 

 of the American Forestry Association, 

 and will be sent regularly to all mem- 

 bers, without additional cost. Forestry 

 and Irrigation will also be the official 

 organ of the National Irrigation Associa- 



A Month of 

 Forestry and 

 Irrigation. 



tion 



This does not mean that forestry will 

 be sacrificed for irrigation or vice versa . 

 On the contrary more space will be de- 

 voted to both subjects as the increased cir- 

 culation guaranteed by the combination 

 makes possible the publication of a larger 

 and more attractive magazine. 



If the last three or four 



weeks ma\ be taken 



criterion, forestry and ir- 

 rigation are soon to have 

 an inning or innings. Since the publi- 

 cation of the November Foresi eb a num- 

 ber of incidents have taken place which 

 indicate the great hold these two impor- 

 tant questions are gaining. 



President Roosevelt in his first message 

 to Congress has fulfilled all expectations 

 by his strong recommendations regarding 

 forestry and irrigation. It was felt that 

 the President would give these matters 

 close consideration, and the generous share 

 of his message devoted to what he properly 

 terms " the most vital of the internal ques- 

 tions of the United States," must be most 

 gratifying to the advocates of forestry and 

 irrigation. 



Secretary Hitchcock has just completed 

 a reorganization of the Division of for- 

 estry of his department, placing trained 

 foresters in charge of the work. 1 [e g 

 still further in his annual report and rec- 

 ommends that the control of the I nited 

 .States forest reserves be turned over to the 

 Department of Agriculture. This should 

 be clone, and with both the President and 

 Secretary of the Interior suggesting this 

 change it should be made at the present 

 session of Congress. 



Secretary Wilson in his annual report 

 devotes considerable space to forestry and 

 irrigation, and he points out the n 

 of better laws for the handling of the pu 

 lands. 



On another page of this issue is printed 

 an account of a really remarkable m 

 devoted to forestry, which was 1 



imberland, Md. A great 1 

 road company brought I 

 hundred of its leading officials I 





