Forestry and Irrigation. 



Vol. VIII. 



MAY, 1902. 



No. 5. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Vacation Subscribers desiring to re- 

 Notice to ceive Forestry and Irri- 

 Subscribers. gation at their vacation 

 addresses will oblige us, 

 and save themselv^es annoyance, by send- 

 ing us notice of any changes in their 

 addresses two weeks prior to the date 

 they are to go into effect. Similar no- 

 tice should be given when subscribers 

 are returning to their permanent ad- 

 dresses. Forestry and Irrigation 

 is published on the fifteenth of each 

 month. 



Forestry at In the early part of April 

 "West Point, the War Department made 

 application to the Agri- 

 cultural Department for a forester to 

 superintend some improvement cutting 

 along the Hudson River front on the 

 West Point Military Reservation. Mr. 

 Wni. L. Hall, Superintendent of Tree 

 Planting, took up the work, and, in 

 connection with it, at the request of Col. 

 A. L. Mills, Superintendent of the Mili- 

 tar}^ Academy, made a preliminary ex- 

 amination of the woodlands on the res- 

 ervation with a view of suggesting plans 

 for their improvement. 



Of the 2,300 acres comprising the 

 reservation, the part not occupied by 

 buildings or drill-grounds, from 1,800 

 to 2,000 acres, is of mountainous char- 

 acter and covered by second-growth 

 hardwood timber 30 to 40 years old. 

 A limited amount of this timber has 

 been cut for use in fences, bridges, and 

 for telephone poles. The greater part 

 consists of a dense, unthinned stand, 

 with some windfalls and some timber 

 injured by fire. 



All the woodland is in need of a spe- 

 cific plan of management which will 

 provide for thinning, the removal of 



the dead and down timber, and protec- 

 tion from fire. 



The authorities of the Academy are 

 desirous of developing the woodland to 

 its greatest value and beauty, and also 

 of improving the whole reservation by 

 extending the system of roads and by 

 the formulation of a plan to beautify 

 the parts of the reservation now used 

 by the Academy. To quote from a let- 

 ter from Mr. Gifford Pinchot to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture : "A plan for 

 the reservation should be a joint under- 

 taking for the landscape architect, the 

 civil engineer, and the forester. A 

 highly satisfactory arrangement for the 

 undertaking would be through a joint 

 commission consisting of a civil engi- 

 neer from the Army, a landscape archi- 

 tect secured by the War Department, 

 and a forester from the Bureau of For- 

 estry. A careful plan worked out by 

 such a commission should be of immense 

 value to the reservation." 



This proposition is being considered 

 by the Secretary of War and the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture, and the outcome 

 may be the appointment of such a com- 

 mission. 



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On April 5 the Secretarj^ 

 of the Interior instructed 

 the Commissioner of the 

 General Land Office to temporarily 

 withdraw from entry, sale, or other 

 disposal, until further ordered by the 

 Department, the public land in the 

 following townships in the State of 

 Montana : 



T. 27 N., R. 6 to 12 E., inclusive. 

 T. 28 N., R. 5 to 13 E., inclusive. 

 T. 29 N., R. 4 to 13 E., inclusive. 

 T. 30 N., R. 3 to 13 E., inclusive. 



St. Mary 

 Reservation. 



T. 31 N., 



R. 6 to 13 E., inclusive 



