1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



199 



of the company, and so far as it is ap- 

 proved, will put it into effect. His 

 salary will be $2,500 a year in the be- 

 ginning. Those desiring to apply for 

 this position should address such ap- 

 plications to Mr. Gifford Pinchot, For- 

 ester, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. 

 Prominent The interest manifested 

 Men and in the Forest Congress, 



Forestry. held at Washington, D. 



C., in January, has been so great that 

 the Bureau of Forestry has issued a 

 circular containing portions of each of 

 the speeches there delivered. It is in- 

 tended to spread this circular widely, 

 since it serves to show the opinion of 

 prominent men who have to do with 

 forests and forest products in regard 

 to the application of practical forestry. 

 The publication contains merely ex- 

 tracts of the speeches delivered, and 

 is in no way a complete record of the 

 proceedings of the American Forest 

 Congress. Such a volume is to be is- 

 sued shortly by the H. M. Suter Pub- 

 lishing Company, of Washington, D. 

 C. The Bureau's circular is being 

 sent to a large list of teachers, lumber- 

 men, legislators, and in general those 

 interested in forest work, and it is 

 hoped that it will pave the way to a 

 closer communication between the Bu- 

 reau of Forestry and the people of the 

 country. 



In this connection, the Bureau of 

 Forestry announces that it desires the 

 name of every person interested in 

 forestry in this country for its mailing 

 list. Such persons will receive the 

 more important of its publications, as 

 they are issued from time to time. It 

 is manifestly impossible to send every 

 publication issued by the Bureau to 

 such a large number of people, but 

 those of general interest will be dis- 

 tributed widely, and all who especially 

 desire it, can be placed on a list so that 

 they will receive notices of special pub- 

 lications as they are issued. 



During the short time 

 Revision of j ^ B ureau o f por- 



Forest Policy. i i 



estry was placed in 



charge of the Forest Reserve work in 



this country and the administrative 

 work connected therewith, it has been 

 endeavoring to ascertain the weak- 

 nesses of the old system of regulations, 

 and endeavoring to discover where 

 improvement might be made in the 

 existing policy of administration. 

 While there has been no public an- 

 nouncement as yet. it is understood 

 that the Bureau will shortly issue a re- 

 vised manual of regulations, and de- 

 fine its policy in regard to the forest 

 reserves. Such revision will in general 

 be based upon the following points : 



Heretofore delays, involving in 

 many cases financial loss, have been 

 occasioned by long-range management 

 of the reserves from Washington, and 

 yards of red tape have bound local re- 

 serve officials, so that the smallest priv- 

 ileges were only obtained after lengthy 

 delay and voluminous correspondence. 

 It is now proposed to effect a reform 

 in this respect, whereby the reserve 

 officials will be empowered to dispose 

 of the smallers matter that need atten- 

 tion without direct authorization in 

 each case, being secured from the of- 

 fices in Washington. This means in- 

 creased responsibility, and with it ad- 

 ditional pay for forest reserve em- 

 ployees. 



Control of the reserves will here- 

 after be more by inspection and less 

 by reports, as in the past. Efficiency 

 will be judged more by results than by 

 methods. In the reserves themselves, 

 provisions are being made for much 

 fuller use of all resources by the peo- 

 ple. The sale of timber will be encour- 

 aged ; free timber will be given those 

 in need of it but unable to buy. The 

 law which has hertofore prohibited the 

 exportation of timber cut in a forest 

 reserve to any other state outside of 

 that in which the reserve is located, 

 has already been repealed by Con- 

 gress, except in Idaho and the Black 

 Hills Forest Reserve, in South Dakota. 



A special study of range conditions 

 will be made to fix the maximum safe 

 amount of grazing on the reserves, and 

 in general all legitimate business enter- 

 prises which will not injure the re- 



