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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



July. 



New Forest Mr. A. A. Anderson, 

 Officers. of New York, owner of 



Palette Ranch in western 

 Wyoming, has accepted the position of 

 special superintendent of the Teton and 

 Yellowstone Forest Reserves. Mr. An- 

 derson will enter upon his duties at once, 

 and after completing the organization 

 of the patrol force, expects to devote 

 the greater part of the summer to the 

 examination of the territory with special 

 reference to the advisability of retaining 

 the present boundary lines. 



Mr. Henry Michelsen, well known as 

 the vice-president of the American For- 

 estry Association for Colorado and one 

 of the leaders in forest matters in that 

 state, has accepted the position of super- 

 visor for the group of forest reserves 

 about Pike's Peak (Pike's Peak, Plum 

 Creek, and South Platte Reserves). 

 These are among the most important 

 of the national forest reserves, and they 

 have suffered a great deal from timber 

 depredations and fire. It is encourag- 

 ing to note that a man deeply interested 

 in forest matters has been put in charge 

 of them, and his appointment will likely 

 result in a much needed improvement 

 in the administration of these reserves. 



Mr. J. B. lyciberg, formerly of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, widely known 

 through his excellent reports on the 

 Priest River, Bitter Root, and other 

 forest reserves, published in the annual 

 reports of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 has entered upon his duties as forest 

 supervisor of the northern half of the 

 Bitter Root Reserve in Idaho. 



Mr. E. T. Allen, of the Bureau of 

 Forestry, Department of Agriculture, 

 and at present serving as inspector of 

 forest reserves in the Department of the 

 Interior, is engaged in an inspection of 

 the Pike's Peak and South Platte Re- 

 serves. 



Commencement The commencement 

 at Yale Forest exercises of the Yale 

 SchooL Forest School took 



place on June 24 and 

 25. There were eight men in the grad- 

 uating class. 



The class day exercises were held 

 on Tuesday, June 24, when a class tree 



was planted on the school grounds. 

 Mr. Akerman spoke for the class, and 

 Professor Toumey responded on behalf 

 of the faculty. 



The graduation exercises were held 

 in Battell Chapel on Wednesday, June 25. 

 This is the first time that the degree of 

 Master of Forestry has been conferred 

 at Yale. Following is a list of the mem- 

 bers of the class : Alfred Akerman, 

 Charles Sidney Chapman, Alfred Knight 

 Chittenden, George Edwards Clements, 

 Christopher Temple Emmet, Ralph 

 Sheldon Hosmer, Roy Lear Marston, 

 and George Hewitt Myers. 



Mr. Chapman, Mr. Clements, and 

 Mr. Hosmer have taken up work in the 

 Bureau of Forestry. Mr. Akerman and 

 Mr. Marston have been appointed in- 

 structors in the Yale Forest School, and 

 will take up their duties in the fall. 

 Mr. Chittenden has gone abroad to con- 

 tinue his studies in Europe, and Mr. 

 Myers is studying forest conditions in 

 the West. Mr. Emmet is engaged in 

 studying the preservation of railroad 

 ties under Dr. von Schrenck. 



Comment on The defeat of the bill 

 Forest Reserve to transfer the adminis- 

 Transfer Bill, tration of the forest re- 

 serves from the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior to the Department 

 of Agriculture has caused much com- 

 ment, for the measure had the indorse- 

 ment of President Roosevelt, the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior, and the Secretary 

 of Agriculture. Representative Can- 

 non, who was mainly responsible for 

 the defeat of the bill, on the plea of 

 economy, comes in for severe criticism. 

 The American Lumberman, of Chicago, 

 one of the most prominent trade jour- 

 nals in the country, alludes to Mr. Can- 

 non's speech against the bill as " about 

 as small and mean a piece of political 

 buncombe as has ever been seen in Con- 

 gress." This journal further goes on 

 to say that ' ' the trouble seems to be 

 that there was apparently no positively 

 partisan advantage to be gained in this 

 matter, and Mr. Cannon seemed to 

 think that he had found an opportu- 

 nity to make a reputation for economy 

 without sacrificing anything of political 



