NEWS AND NOTES 



At last the transfer of papers delivered at the Congress, the 

 Transfer of the .-, / r . . ,,,.?, 



Reserves forest reserves resolutions passed, and list of the dele- 



from the Department gates who attended. Altogether it will 



of the Interior to the Department of make the most comprehensive and au- 



Agriculture is an accomplished fact, thoritative volume on forestry that has 



The bill for this purpose passed Con- yet been issued in the United States, 



gress the last week in January, and The publication of the proceedings will 



was signed by President Roosevelt on be handled for the Association by the 



February ist. From now on the ad- H. M. Suter Publishing Company, of 



ministration of the reserves, as out- Washington, who are the publishers 



lined in an article elsewhere in this of this magazine. The price of the 



number of FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION, volume will be $1.25, postpaid. Per- 



will be directly under the control of sons desiring copies of the proceedings 



the Bureau of Forestry. should send in their orders at once, 



This transfer of the administration accompanied by check or money order 



of the forest reserves has come after for the amount, 

 many vexatious delays. For four years 



the friends of forestry have stood to- To Inspect , he Senate and House 



gether to bring about this result. The A rid West. 



American Forestry Association was a gation have arranged 



potent factor in the creation of the re- for a T tn P through the entire arid West 



serves, and the first laws for their ad- next J une and J ul y> starting at Omaha 



ministration, and it has likewise been and going first to Nevada, where, on 



a powerful ally in the move for the J une J 7th, the third anniversary of 



consolidation of all forest work. With the approval of the reclamation act, 



the active management of the reserves they wl11 witness the formal comple- 



in the hands of Mr. Gifford Pinchot, on of the Truckee irrigation project, 



who has fought so tenaciously during This will be the first project to be 



the past four years to bring about the completed under the reclamation act 

 transfer, we may Jook for a sensible, The members of the committee will 



business-like handling of the public then go to New Mexico and Arizona, 



forest lands. This victory in securing taking in various projects in both ter- 



the transfer of the forest reserves in "tones. They will make a personal 



the face of much selfish opposition is inspection from Yuma of the Colorado 



one of great consequence, and reflects "ver val ! e y> including the Imperial 



the greatest credit on the movement country in order to become familiar 



headed by Mr. Pinchot. It should en- with what has proved to be a per- 



courage all friends of conservative for- P 1 ^ 1 "? Problem in irrigation develop- 



est management to keep hard at work m ^, 



for the numerous projects of like na- The committees will then make a 



ture which should be carried through tour _ of Southern California inspect 



at an early date. m S irrigation plants and wil 



tertamed at Los Angeles, going thence 



Proceedings The complete proceed- to San Francisco. Meetings will 

 of the Forest j n g. s o f fa e American be held for the purpose of gather- 

 Forest Congress, held ing information regarding the big Sac- 

 at Washington January 2d to 6th, will ramento valley project, which is de- 

 be published in book form, March clared by officials of the reclamation 

 1 5th. The volume will contain in the service to be the largest project in the 

 neighborhood of 400 pages, and will United States. Visits will be made to 

 be neatly bound in cloth. It will con- various places in the Sacramento val- 

 tain the full text of all addresses and ley, and thence to Oregon, Washing- 



