1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



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attendance is reported from the forest 

 .schools. 



At the New York State College of 

 Forestry there are now enrolled thirty- 

 eight students, an increase of one hun- 

 dred per cent over the attendance of last 

 year. The Yale Forest School has thirty- 

 one students, and at the Biltmore Forest 

 School the new year has opened with 

 eleven matriculates. 



There is a growing tendency on the 

 part of colleges and universities of the 

 country to add courses in forestry to 

 their curricula. Already forty-.seven 

 institutions of learning offer instruction 

 in forestry, and it is worthy of notice 

 that in .several cases high schools are 

 following the lead of the universities. 



Nebraska. 



During the past sununer 

 agents from the Bureau 

 of Forestry studied the forest conditions 

 of Nebraska, completing their investi- 

 gations in October. The investigations 

 covered principally the Platte River and 

 its tributaries, the Pine Ridge di.strict, 

 and the Sand Hill region. In all, over 

 forty counties were traversed. 



As a result of this investigation, .so 

 thoroughly has the Bureau of Forestry 

 become convinced of the practicability 

 of foresting the Sand Hills that it is aid- 

 ing the efforts to secure the setting aside 

 of one or more tree-planting reserves in 

 that region. 



In an}- event this investigation will.be 

 of great value in determining future 

 plans in regard to improving the forest 

 conditions of the plains region. 



T ,f o ji In no part of the coun- 

 In the South, ^^y j/ ^^,.^^^^ .^^^^^^^^ 



shown in conserv^ative forest manage- 

 ment b}- private owners than in the 

 Southern vStates. Up to date the amount 

 of private lands in the South for which 

 advice in handling has been asked of 

 the Bureau is 1,534,000 acres, and a 

 ver}- large part of the work which will 

 be done by the Bureau for private 

 owners in the immediate future, will be 

 in that section.- 



p , The past vear has been 



Progress m rotable both for interest 



Iree Planting:, ^nd achievement in tree 



planting. Never before, not even dur- 



ing the time of wholesale timber-claim 

 planting, were so many trees planted in 

 a single year. Reports of extensive 

 work in this line from Florida, New 

 England, the Middle Atlantic .states, 

 the Lake states, the Pacific coast, as 

 well as from all the prairie states of the 

 interior, have been received. 



In the West a decided impetus has 

 been given to tree planting by the fact 

 that forest plantations have already 

 proven profitable as financial ventures. 

 On the other hand, in the I^ast tree 

 planting is found to be a valuable way 

 of reclaiming wa.ste lands and for pro- 

 tecting water sui)plies. 



More than one hundred planting plans 

 have been made for applicants by the 

 Bureau of Forestry within the year. 



T7 J. J.1 Friends of forestry must 

 Forestry m the ^-^^ ^^-^^^ satisfaction 

 Philippines. ^^^ thorough prepara- 

 tions that are being made to establish 

 an effective forest service in the Philip- 

 pine Lslands. The work done during 

 the first fi.scal year by the Forestry Bu- 

 reau, at Manila, is mo.st encouraging. 

 The announcement by its director that 

 the working force will be increa.sed and 

 a definite forest policy inaugurated 

 throughout the archipelago at the earliest 

 possible day, makes the outlook for for- 

 estry in the Philippines most promising. 



With practically all the forest lands 

 in the islands under the management of 

 the bureau, judging from results already 

 accomplished, tlieex])loitation of timber 

 promises to be one of the most interest- 

 ing economic problems in the Philip- 

 pines. 



A number of trained foresters recently 

 secured in this country for the Philip- 

 pine service have sailed for Manila to 

 enter upon their duties. The Bureau 

 of Forestry of the United vStates Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has been made an 

 agent for the Fore.stry Bureau at Manila 

 in securing men for the ssrvice there. 



It is with great regret 

 Obituary. ^^.^ ^ep^rt the death of 



Dr. Charles Mohr, one of the founders 

 of this Association, who passed away on 



J"b' 17- . , 



Dr. Mohr was one ot the pioneer advo- 

 cates of conservative forest management 



