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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



Colorado. There has been before the 

 legislature a bill intended to authorize 

 the State Canal Commission (which has 

 had charge of the development of the 

 project for carrying the water of the 

 Gunnison River by means of a canal or 

 tunnel into the valley of the Uncom- 

 pahgre River) to turn over its material 

 and every thing relating to the project to 

 the Reclamation Service of the Federal 

 Government. There has also been some 

 legislation under consideration for the 

 amendment of the district irrigation law. 



Idaho. -- A rather comprehensive 

 amendment of the state irrigation law 

 has been passed. 



Montana. A complete code has been 

 proposed for the government of the 

 w T ater-right question. 



Nevada. A bill for the establish- 

 ment of the office of State Engineer and 

 for general cooperation of the state au- 

 thorities with the Reclamation Service 

 has been passed. 



New Mexico. A complete code of 

 water-right la\vs was placed before the 

 legislature. 



Oregon. A comprehensive amend- 

 ment was proposed to the state law gov- 

 erning proceedings under the Carey act. 



Washington. A general water-right 

 law was proposed and taken under con- 

 sideration. 



Utah. A general codification of water 

 right laws is under consideration. 



Forestry at 

 Wellesley. 



Wellesley is the first 

 woman's college in the 

 country to introduce a 

 course in forestry. The course is not 

 designed to prepare women for the pro- 

 fession of forestry, but to acquaint them 

 with the nature of forest problems in the 

 United States. The benefit of the course 

 is proved by the fact that the graduates 

 who took this course in college are now 

 in every case doing something to awaken 

 interest in forestry and to bring about a 

 clearer knowledge of its practical char- 

 acter. Dr. Grace E. Cooley, who has 

 charge of the work, has already an es- 

 tablished reputation as a botanist. She 

 has recently made a special study of for- 

 estry with particular reference to such 

 phases as may be useful to a woman. 



An outline of the course is given 

 below. 



Course in Trees and Forestry. Two 

 consecutive hours of recitation three 

 times a week for a year. 



Prerequisite, one year's work in bot- 

 any. 



Method Field work throughout the 

 year; lectures; microscopic work on 

 anatomy of woods. 



Outline of Course. Study of trees with 

 special reference to silvicultural charac- 

 teristics, range, etc. ; forest flora of the 

 Merriam life zones; factors of forest pro- 

 duction and distribution ; value of stand- 

 ing forests in general ; value of American 

 forests and forest reserves; danger to 

 forests, with field work on different 

 phases of the subject; anatomy and 

 physiology of woody plants; value of 

 American woods; the timber industry; 

 national and state forest policy; the 

 great forests of the world ; forest policy 

 abroad; silvicultural work in reproduc- 

 tion of forests, tree planting, and seed 

 sow r ing. 



The facilities afforded by the extensive 

 grounds of Wellesley College for the 

 study of trees are greatly increased by 

 the nearness of the Hunnewell estate, 

 the Arnold arboretum, the Boston park 

 system, as well as by good typical Cedar 

 swamps, Oak barrens, and well-grown 

 deciduous forests in the vicinity. 



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Saving the Orchardists in the Santa. 

 Water. Clara Valley, at the head 



of San Francisco Bay f 

 near San Jose, California, have hereto- 

 fore made but scant use of the flood- 

 waters of the winter rains, which would 

 carry soil from the mountain sides with 

 much waste of water and rich earth and 

 a consequent choking of the commercial 

 channels at Alviso, the bay outlet for San 

 Jose, and surrounding country. Last 

 summer dams were built across the L,OS| 

 Gatos and Guadalupi streams, in the] 

 foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains 

 and, in spite of the heavy rains of thi; 

 season, little or no water from thes* 

 creeks has yet passed into the bay. Al 

 of the water, which would otherwis 

 have been wasted, with the sedimer 

 carried down from the hillsides, has bee 



