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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



August^ 



Cazadero, Grass Valley, Marysville, 

 Monterey, and Tuolumne. 



Wyoming- has been visited by forest 

 fires during the past two weeks, the 

 worst being near Lander ; also in a sec- 

 tion of country w^est of the Medicine 

 Bow Forest Reserve. On August 8 

 three destructive fires were reported 

 from the vicinity of Battle Lake. 



The fires reported last month from 

 Colorado, in the vicinity of Durango, 

 burned over an area of 25 square miles 

 of territory. On Blanco Mountain 

 5,000 acres have been burned over. On 

 August 2 a fierce forest fire was reported 

 burning near Leadville ; another serious 

 fire burned over a large area in the 

 region of Allen's Park. 



Near Gun's Hill, Virginia, a forest 

 fire recently did considerable damage to 

 the timber tract of the Blackstone Lum- 

 ber Co. In Bladon and Sampson coun- 

 ties, North Carolina, forest fires de- 

 stroyed several houses and much valu- 

 able timber during Jul^^ Fires are also 

 reported from Carbon, Montana, while 

 recent reports from Alaska state that 

 unusually destructive forest fires are 

 raging in the timber along the Yukon 

 River. During July there was a large 

 forest fire in the Grand Canyon Forest 

 Reserve in Arizona. 



New Forest 

 Magazine. 



The first number of the 

 Magazme of Arboricul- 

 ture, which is to be the 

 official organ of the International So- 

 ciety of Arboriculture, will be issued on 

 September i. It will contain from 16 

 to 24 pages, and Mr. John P. Brown, 

 secretary and treasurer of the society, is 

 to be editor. 



The Largest What is claimed to be 

 Tree. the largest tree in the 



world was recently dis- 

 covered b^^ a party of hunters in the 

 Converse Basin, Fresno county, Cali- 

 fornia. This tree 6 feet from the ground 

 is 154 feet 8 inches in circumference, 

 making it over 51 feet in diameter. 

 Persons who have visited the tree since 

 the first report was made have verified 

 the statements of the men who discov- 

 ered it. The tree is located in the Sierra 

 Forest Reserve. 



Going to the Mr. Gifford Pinchot,. 

 Philippines. Forester of theU. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, 

 at the request of President Roosevelt, 

 will make an examination of the forest 

 resources of the Philippine Islands dur- 

 ing the autumn months. Mr. Pinchot 

 will sail from Vancouver on September 

 8 and will return to the United States 

 in December. 



Proposed Lake Recently, upon the rec- 

 Superior Forest ommendation of Gen. 

 Reserve. C. C. Andrews, Chief 



Fire Warden of Min- 

 nesota and theU. S. Geological Survey, 

 and concurred in by the General Land 

 Office, temporary withdrawal was made 

 of an area amounting to 20 townships 

 and 1 5 sections in Lake and Cook coun- 

 ties, Minnesota, pending consideration, 

 of the question of making a forest re- 

 serve of this area, to be known as the 

 Lake Superior Forest Reserve. 



The lands withdrawn lie within the 

 following described townships: 



T. 59N., R. 5 W. 



T. 60 N., R 4, 5, and 6 W. 



T. 61 N.,R. 5,6,7, 8,9, 10, and II W. 



T. 62 N., R. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 W. 



T. 63 N., R. 5, 6, 7, and 8 W. 



All west of the fourth principal me- 

 ridian. 



General Andrews' letter to the Com- 

 missioner of the General Land Office 

 was as follows : 



St, PauIv, Minn., 



May 10, I go 2. 



Hon. BiNGER Hermann, 



Commissioner General Land Office, 



Washington, D. C^ 



Dear Sir : I have the honor hereby 

 to recommend that the following town- 

 ships, all public land, situated in Cook 

 and Lake counties, in Minnesota, and 

 comprising, after deducting water sur- 

 face, an area in round numbers of 500,000 

 acres, be set apart b}^ the President as a 

 forest reserve, namely : 



T. 59, R. 5, 8, and 9 W. 



T. 60, R. 4 to 9 W. 



T. 61, R. 5 to II W., both inclusive. 



T. 62, R. 5 to 10 W., both inclusive. 



T. 63, R. 5 to 7 W., both inclusive, 

 and south half of T. 63, R. 8. 



