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ing," Why, these are the forest rangers. 

 I am very glad to see you, boys." 

 During the stay in and about Santa 

 Barbara the rangers were given places 

 of honor in the escort and were made 

 useful in policing the line of march, 

 holding up the trolley cars, turning 

 back intruding teams, and keeping the 

 crowds back. 



At the Santa Barbara Mission, Colo- 

 nel Slosson presented the President with 

 an album of photographs of the reserve 

 in behalf of the Ventura County rangers, 

 all of the pictures having been taken 

 and finished by the rangers themselves. 

 In accepting this gift the President 

 spoke as follows : 



' ' Let me say a word of thanks to the 

 members of the forest force, who acted 

 as my escort. I wish to thank the other 

 gentlemen also, but particularly the 

 members of the forest force. I am, as 

 you gentlemen probably know, exceed- 

 ingly interested in the question of forest 

 preservation. I think our people are 

 growing more and more to understand 

 that in reference to the forests and the 

 wild creatures of the wilderness our aim 

 should be not to destroy them simply for 

 the selfish pleasure of one generation, 

 but to keep them for our children and 

 our children's children. I wish you, the 

 forest rangers, and also all the others, 

 to protect the game and wild creatures, 

 and of course in California, where the 

 water supply is a matter of such vital 

 moment, the preservation of the forests 

 for the merely utilitarian side is of the 

 utmost consequence, and there are no 

 members of our body politic who are 

 doing better work than those who are 

 engaged in the preservation of the for- 

 ests, the keeping of nature as it is for the 

 sake of its use and for the sake of its 

 beauty." 



Mr. Roosevelt also added, in an 

 ' ' aside " to " the boys ' ' themselves, 

 ' ' and I like the way you ride. ' ' 



Everywhere the rangers were treated 

 with marked courtesy. They were prac- 

 tically made the guests of the Potter 

 Hotel, and took lunch, on a special invi- 

 tation from Commander Kimball, in the 

 captain's cabin of theU. S. training ship 

 Alert. 



Appalachian The Appalachian Moun- 

 Mountain tain Club, of Boston, 



Club's Mass., has planned a 



Excursion. number of outings this 

 year, some of which 

 have already been given. The princi- 

 pal events on the annual program in- 

 clude an excursion on Decoration Day, 

 or rather, one covering five days from 

 May 29 to June 2, a summer camp in 

 New Hampshire, and a fall trip to the 

 Adirondacks. Special meetings were 

 held May 8, 9, 13, 16, 19, and 30. 

 These included lectures, field lessons in 

 geology, and tramping tours about Bos- 

 ton. The club takes an interest in 

 forestry and related subjects, and has 

 done a great deal to popularize nature 

 study and appreciation in and around 

 Boston. 



Yale Forest Henry S. Graves, direc- 

 School tor of the Yale Forest 



Notes. School, sailed for Rot- 



terdam, May 5, to spend 

 the summer abroad for the purpose of 

 studying the forest methods in use in 

 Europe, the results of his investigations 

 to be used in connection with the work 

 of the Yale School. Professor Graves 

 will visit the most prominent forest 

 schools and museums of Germany, 

 Austria-Hungary, and France, and will 

 make collections of books, instruments, 

 specimens, and other material for use 

 at Yale to aid the students and to illus- 

 trate his own lectures. His head- 

 quarters, while abroad, will be at the 

 University of Munich, where he studied 

 some years ago. 



Professor Graves was at West Point 

 for several weeks previous to his de- 

 parture for Europe, directing the party 

 of Yale Forest School seniors who have 

 been working on the government reser- 

 vation connected with the United States 

 Military Academy. 



The Yale Summer School of Forestry 

 will be held, as usual, this year at Mil- 

 ford, Pa., the work being in charge of 

 Assistant Professor J. W. Toume}', \vho 

 has been advanced to a full professor- 

 ship in the forest school. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Forester of the 

 United States Department of Agricult- 





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