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dian law, and land management, friendly Governments of France and 



which they will not acquire at a Con- Germany for our students to learn the 



tinental forest school. A succession management of forests on a large 



of experienced Indian forest officers, scale. 



who have been trained by Dr: Schlich Sir W. Thyselton Dyer, in giving 

 and myself, will be available eventual- evidence before the late Committee ap- 

 ly to succeed us as instructors in for- pointed by the Secretary of State for 

 estry, while their services would not India, to arrange the future teaching 

 be available at a Continental school. of the Cooper's Hill students, said 

 Forest management has also made that one of the most difficult duties 

 progress in Britain during the last that fell to him, as official adviser to 

 twenty-five years. The woodlands of the Colonial Office, was the selection 

 the Duke of Bedford are now man- of forest officers for the Colonies, and 

 aged according to a continuous work- that under present circumstances he 

 ing-plan, so are the High Meadows could not find properly trained Brit- 

 Woods attached to the Forest of Dean, ish candidates for such posts. Surely 

 the working-plan for these having we no longer wish for Colonial for- 

 been prepared by my lamented friend, estry appointments to be held by for- 

 Mr. H. C. Hill, who was for some eigners, and the only way to avoid 

 time Inspector-General of Forests in this in future, as well as to afford the 

 India. Lord Selborne's woods, near best training for our Indian forest 

 Woolmer Forest, are managed accord- officials, and to keep up a high stand- 

 ing to a working-plan prepared by Dr. ard of forest training for our land- 

 Nisbet. Mr. Munro Ferguson's woods owners, land agents, and for future-in- 

 in Fifeshire, the Alice Holt Woods at- structors of forestry throughout the 

 tached to the New Forest, are also un- Empire, is to take the present opportun- 

 der working-plans. The magnificent pire, is to take the present opportun- 

 forests of France and Germany have ity of establishing an Imperial Forest 

 been placed at our disposal by the School at one of our Universities. 



Studying the Kootenai River 



Government Looking for Reclamation 

 Projects in this Section of the Country 



MR. W. W. SCHLECHT, Assist- At Crossport and above this point 



ant Engineer of the Reclama- the stream is torrential and the banks 



tion Service, recently made a recon- are high and precipitous, but below 



naissance trip along the Kootenai Crossport it is sluggish and meanders 



River between Crossport, Idaho, and through a valley averaging two miles 



Nelson, B. C., in order to determine in width. Mr. Schlecht reports that 



the practicability of reclaiming about- this valley is a typical flood plain, the 



30,000 acres of land between Cross- banks being from 5 to 15 feet higher 



port and the International boundary than the major part of the land lying 



line, which are flooded during the high farther back, but they are crevassed 111 



stage of the Kootenai River. This many places and are very pervious, 



high water stage usually lasts until thus giving the water during the high 



the latter part of June, at which time stages of the river free acces 



the season is too far advanced to raise lower land, 



any of the indigenous fruits and veg- Between Crossport and 



etables, and only wild grass for hay Lake there is but one large tributary, 



can be raised. which empties into the river in Can- 



