LECTURES ON FORESTRY 



Special Course Given in Washington, 

 Januuary 713, by Yale Forest School 



""I" 1 AKING advantage of an unusual 

 opportunity for bringing its stu- 

 dents into touch with the leaders of the 

 forest movement, the management of 

 the Yale Forest School held a series 

 of interesting lectures in the assembly 

 hall of the Bureau of Forestry, Wash- 

 ington, D. C., January 7 to 13. The 

 students of the school had attended the 

 American Forest Congress the week 

 previous, and remained over for these 

 lectures as part of their regular work. 

 In addition, the various members of 

 the Bureau of Forestry and the dele- 

 gates to the Forest Congress were in- 

 vited to attend these lectures. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, forester of the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, delivered a series of four exceed- 

 ingly valuable lectures on "Forest Pol- 

 icy." On the opening day, January 7, 

 in addition to Mr. Pinchot: s lecture, 

 Captain George P. Ahem gave an in- 

 teresting talk on the Philippines. 

 There were also impromptu addresses 

 of interest and value from Dr. B. E. 

 Fernow, Prof. Filibert Roth, and Dr. 



Judson F: Clark, of the Canadian For- 

 est Service. 



Five lectures on "Hydrography," 

 illustrated with lantern slides, were 

 given by Mr. F. H. Newell, chief engi- 

 neer of the Reclamation Service. On 

 Monday, January 9, Mr. Frederick V. 

 Coville, botanist of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, and Mr. 

 A. F. Potter, grazing expert, Bureau 

 of Forestry, spoke on the "Grazing 

 Problem." "Forest Reserves" were 

 discussed by Mr. F. E. Olmsted on 

 Tuesday, January 10. On January n 

 Mr. George B. Sudworth lectured on 

 "Dendrology," while Mr. T. H. Sher- 

 rard spoke on "Bureau Methods," his 

 talk being supplemented with addres- 

 ses by Mr. H. H. Chapman, Mr. A. K. 

 Chittenden, and Mr. C. S. Chapman, 

 all of the Bureau of Forestry. Two 

 lectures worthy of special mention 

 were delivered on January 12, by Mr. 

 William L. Hall, whose subject was 

 "Forest Extension," and by Mr. Ra- 

 phael Zon, on "Silvicultural Re- 

 search. 



SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FORESTS 



Cooperative Study of their Resources and Needs Made by State of 

 North Carolina, U. S. Geological Survey, and Bureau of Forestry 



HP HE forest conditions of a large area 

 in the Southern Appalachian 

 Mountains were examined in 1900 and 

 1901 by H. B. Ayres and W. W. Ashe, 

 of the United States Geological Survey. 

 The examination was made at the joint 

 expense and under the joint supervi- 

 sion of the United States Geological 

 Survey, represented by Mr. Henry 

 Gannett, geographer; the Geological 

 Survey of North Carolina, represented 



by Prof. J. A. Holmes, state geologist, 

 and of the Bureau of Forestry of the 

 Department of Agriculture, represent- 

 ed by Mr. Gifford Pinchot, forester. 

 The report made by Messrs. Ayres and 

 Ashe has recently been published by 

 the United States Geological Survey 

 and contains much matter of general 

 interest. 



The portion of the Appalachian re- 

 gion under consideration extends from 



