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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



June 



supporting, and measures are to be taken 

 for the exclusion of trespassers, stock, 

 and fires from the public forest domain. 



The Governor is authorized, by and 

 with the consent of I he Board of Com- 

 missioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 to set aside lands for forest reservations 

 and to accept the care and control of 

 private lands for forest purposes. 



The territorial senate has just passed 

 a bill which appropriates about $23,500 

 a year for two years for the Department 

 of Forestry, and providing for the sal- 

 ary of a chief forester at $3,000. He 

 will have full and direct control of the 

 forest work, being independent of the 

 experiment station and answerable only 

 to the Board of Commissioners, whose 

 members are appointed by the Governor, 

 by and with the advice and consent of 

 the territorial senate. 



The Bureau of Forestry at Washing- 

 ton is greatly interested in the work 

 contemplated in Hawaii, and since it is 

 the desire of those persons in the island 

 most deeply interested in the subject, it 

 will give help and advice in the prelim- 

 inary steps. Mr. William L. Hall, 

 Chief of the Division of Forest Exten- 

 sion, w r ill start for Honolulu in August 

 to assist in organizing the forest work. 



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Appropriation Governor Odell, of New 

 Vetoed. York, on May 15, ve- 



toed the annual state 

 appropriation of $10,000 for the New 

 York State College of Forestry, of Cor- 

 nell University. His action was based 

 upon the adverse report of the legisla- 

 tive committee appointed to examine the 

 state lands in the Adirondacks. This 

 report criticised severely the manage- 

 ment of the college forest. 



Association At a recent meeting of the 

 Matter. Executive Committee of 



the Board of Directors of 

 the American Forestry Association the 

 matter of increasing the annual dues of 

 the members of the Association, which 

 was referred to it by the Board, was 

 brought up for consideration. The 

 Committee decided to recommend that 

 the annual dues be increased to $2.50 a 

 year, and this proposition for increase 



be submitted to the members of the As- 

 sociation at the special summer meeting 

 to be held at Minneapolis, Minn., in 

 August. Notice of the proposed change 

 will be given in connection with the 

 official announcement for the summer 

 meeting, and if this action of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee is approved, it will 

 go into effect January i, 1904. 



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Reclamation Mr. Charles D. Walcott, 

 Service Notes. Director of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey has 

 just returned to Washington after an 

 extended trip in the southwest. He 

 visited the San Carlos and Tonto Reser- 

 voir sites in Arizona, and met and dis- 

 cussed with the people of the Salt River 

 Valley the main points in connection 

 with the government's attitude in carry- 

 ing out the provisions of the national 

 irrigation act. Later Mr. Walcott visited 

 the Grand Canyon, in connection with 

 geological work that is being carried on 

 in that region. 



Mr. Morris Bien, of the Survey, is 

 negotiating for the purchase of lands 

 and water rights in connection with the 

 Truckee project in Nevada. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, Chief Engineer of 

 the Reclamation Service, is now making 

 an extended trip through the West in 

 connection with the various proposed 

 irrigation projects that are being con- 

 sidered under the law of June, 1902. 



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Forestry in In a recent report Mr. 

 Italy Neville-Rolfe, British 



consul in Naples, refers 

 to the widespread interest now being 

 taken in Italy in the question of re- 

 forestation. In 1877 about 4,000,000 

 acres w r ere withdrawn from the opera- 

 tion of the old forest laws, as well as 

 about 1,000,000 acres in Sicily and Sar- 

 dinia. The consequence was a reckless 

 destruction of forests ; and now it is 

 generally admitted that the state must 

 step in to save those that are left and to 

 aid in replanting. The question now 

 being discussed is what trees are to be 

 used for the latter purpose. The Italian 

 oak is of little use except for railway 

 sleepers ; there is plenty of chestnut all 

 over the country, and pine trees would 



