Forestry and Irrigatioa 



Vol. VIII. 



SEPTEMBER, 1902. 



No. 9. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



New Forest 

 Reserves. 



Seven new forest re- 

 serves have been estab- 

 lished recently by presi- 

 dential proclamation. These include 

 three new reserves in Arizona : The 

 Mount Graham Forest Reserve, 1 18,600 

 acres in extent, located in Graham 

 county ; the Santa Catalina Forest Re- 

 serve of 155,520 acres, in Pima county, 

 and the Chiricahua Forest Reserve, in 

 Cochise county, of 169,600 acres in ex- 

 tent. In Montana two new reserves, 

 the Madison Forest Reserve of 736,000 

 acres and the Little Belt Mountains 

 Forest Reserve of 501,000 acres, have 

 been established. The first-named re- 

 serve is in Madison and Gallatin coun- 

 ties, bordering on the western side of 

 the Yellowstone National Park. The 

 Little Belt Reserve is located in Meagher 

 and Fergus counties. 



A large new reserve has also been set 

 apart in New Mexico, to be known as 

 the Lincoln Forest Reserve. It is 500, 

 000 acres in extent and is located in 

 Lincoln count3\ An unusually large 

 reserve has just been set aside in Alaska, 

 to be known as the Alexandria Archi- 

 pelago Forest Reserve, and contains 

 4,506,240 acres. 



In addition to the foregoing new re- 

 serv^es, a number of changes have been 

 made in the reser^^es already established. 

 Lands have been added on the eastern 

 side of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, 

 increasing its area by 24,960 acres. 

 The Medicine Bow Forest Reser\-e, in 

 Wyoming, has had recent additions 

 made to the amount of 20,533 acres. 

 The White River Reserve, in Colorado, 

 has been decreased in area by 68,160 

 acres along the headwaters of the White 

 and Yampa Rivers. The Crater Lake 

 National Park of 164,560 acres, which 

 was established by Congress at its last 



session, reduces the size of the Cascade 

 Forest Reserve, in Oregon, by 152,680 

 acres. 



The total area of all the forest re- 

 serV'CS is now 58,850,925 acres. It is 

 interesting to note that the total area of 

 the United States, exclusive of island 

 possessions,is 2,362,960,000 acres. Thus 

 it will be seen that the forest reserves 

 now amount to about one-fortieth, or 

 about 2}4 per cent, of the entire area of 

 the United States. In square miles the 

 area of the reserves is 91,954, or almost 

 twice the size of Pennsylvania. 



Mr.Walcotfs 

 Trip. 



Hon. Charles D. Wal- 

 cott, Director of the 

 U.S. Geological Surve)-, 

 in whose charge has been placed the ex- 

 aminations of forest reserves and the 

 work of reclamation of arid lands, is 

 making an extended trip of inspection 

 through the West. At Helena, Mont., 

 he met Mr. F. H. Newell, the Chief 

 Engineer of the Reclamation Survey, 

 and, together with Mr. Arthur P. Davis 

 and other engineers, he made an ex- 

 amination of some of the reclamation 

 projects of Montana, Wj'oming, and 

 other states. 



In Wyoming particular attention was 

 given to the proposed system of reser- 

 voirs in the Big Horn Mountains and to 

 the possible storage and diversion of the 

 Shoshone River. Proceeding eastward, 

 the party was joined by Hon. Frank 

 W. Mondell, Member of Congress for 

 Wyoming, and later by Senator Francis 

 E. Warren. The trip was made up 

 Sweetwater River to what is known as 

 " Devil's Gate " Reservoir, on the Tom 

 Sun Ranch. Later Mr. Walcott con- 

 tinued his trip to visit reclamation pro- 

 jects in Nevada. 



