Forestry and Irrigation. 



Vol. VIII. 



JULY, 1902. 



No. 7. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Special Summer At the invitation of 

 Meeting-. the Michigan For- 



estry Commission 

 and the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 the special summer meeting of the 

 American Forestrj^ Association for 1902 

 will be held at Lansing, Michigan, on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, August 27 

 and 28, to be followed by an excursion 

 to Mackinac. 



There will be three sessions on 

 Wednesday, August 27, at 10 a. m., 

 2.30, and 8 p. m., and two sessions on 

 Thursda}^ August 28, at 10 a. m. and 

 2.30 p. m. The sessions will be held 

 at the State Capitol. 



At the close of the afternoon session 

 on August 28, a special train will be 

 provided to convey those who desire to 

 accompany the excursion to the Michi- 

 gan Forestry Preserve in Roscommon 

 and Crawford counties, by way of Sag- 

 inaw and Ba}' City. From this point 

 the excursion will proceed to the hard- 

 wood forests in Antrim county, thence 

 to Mackinac Island. 



Commencement At the commencement 

 at Cornell. exercises of the New 



York State College of 

 Forestry there were two graduates, Mr. 

 E. A. Sterling and Mr. W.W.Clark. Mr. 

 Sterling was the only graduate present, 

 as Mr. Clark had been excused a few 

 weeks earlier in order to accept a posi- 

 tion in connection with the Forestry 

 Bureau at Manila. Mr. Sterling has 

 accepted a position with the New York 

 State Forest, Fish, and Game Commis- 

 sion. This commencement was the first 

 at which the degree of F. E. (Forest 

 Engineer) has been conferred on the 

 graduates of this college. The former 

 graduates have also been granted the 



degree of F. E. in place of B. F. (Bach- 

 elor of Forestry), which was formerly 

 conferred. During the college year just 

 ended there were forty-four students 

 registered at the New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry. 



To Have It is now definitely known 

 Charg-e of that the national irriga- 

 Irrig^ation. tion policy which the re- 

 cently passed Irrigation 

 Bill provides for will be carried out by 

 the Secretary of the Interior through the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, as at present 

 constituted, under the immediate super- 

 vision of Mr. Charles D. Walcott, the 

 Director, and Mr. F. H. Newell, the 

 chief of the Division of Hydrography. 

 This removes any danger of the work 

 falling into the hands of untried men. 

 The work of the Survey in all its rela- 

 tions to the development of the irriga- 

 tion resources of the arid region has been 

 eminently satisfactory to the people of 

 the West who are familiar with what 

 has been so far accomplished. Mr. 

 Newell has been in charge of the work 

 for fourteen years. He entered the 

 employ of the Geological Survey under 

 Major Powell, who may really be said 

 to be the father of the national irriga- 

 tion polic}", and his great conception of 

 the niarv'elous possibilities of the arid 

 region under a national plan for its de- 

 velopment seems now about to be real- 

 ized. Mr. Newell has made almost a 

 life study of the subject, and is proba- 

 bly more familiar than any other man 

 in the LTnited States with the irrigation 

 resources of the West and what must 

 be done to accomplish the purposes of 

 the new national irrigation law, which 

 has been well designated the new 

 Homestead Law. 



