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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



June 



ent in the Washington office. Mr. 

 Biggi graduated from the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology with the 

 degree of C. E.. and has been engaged 

 in various capacities of surveying, 

 drafting, etc., by the city of Boston. 



Adolph H. Rossong, of Madison, 

 Wis., has been appointed engineering 

 aid and ordered to report for duty to 

 I. E. Field, at Fort Laramie, Wyom- 

 ing. Mr. Rossing took a general 

 scientific course in the University of 

 Wisconsin and graduated from the 

 college of Mechanics and Engineering 

 with the degree of C. E. 



Yerney W. Russell, of Xew Hamp- 

 shire, has received an appointment as 

 engineering aid and directed to re- 

 port for duty at Cody, Wyoming. Mr. 

 Rrssell graduated from Dartmouth 

 College and had considerable experi- 

 ence in connection with his college 

 work. 



The planting operations 



Tree Planting ,. ' r \? 



by the Bureau the Bureau of Forestry 

 is carrying on in cooper- 

 ation with the Delaware and Hudson 

 Railway Company along their Cha- 

 teaugay Division in the Adirondack^, 

 is progressing rapidly. G. B. Lull, of 

 the Bureau of Forestry, is in charge 

 of the work. The nursery which is 

 being established at Wolf Pond is 

 nearly completed, and will have a 

 capacity of 300,000 plants. In addi- 

 tion seeds will be planted on denuded 

 areas by the seedspot method. The 

 object of the work is to reforest the 

 28,000 acres of land along the rail- 

 road, which have been denuded by 

 lumbering and repeated fires. With 

 the growing scarcity and increased 

 cost of cross ties, the importance of 

 this work can hardly be overestimated. 

 The most promising species used is 

 the European larch, as it grows rapid- 

 ly, is easily propagated, and is of high 

 value for posts, telephone poles and 

 railroad ties. The other species which 

 are being planted are Scotch pine, 

 white pine, and Norway spruce. 



The season's forest planting opera- 

 tions have been begun in the Pikes 

 Peak Fprest Reserve. F. W. Besley, 



New Forest 

 Reserves 



of the Bureau of Forestry, has gone 

 from the Dismal River Reserve to 

 Colorado to begin this work. He will 

 direct the planting of 50,000 trees 

 which were grown in the Dismal River 

 Reserve Nursery, and will plant addi- 

 tional seedbeds and care for the three 

 forest nurseries established near Pikes 

 Peak last year. This work follows 

 a carefully prepared preliminary re- 

 forestation plan made in 1903 and 

 1904. 



The President has pro- 

 claimed another reserve 

 in Idaho. It is called 

 the Sawtooth Forest Reserve, is lo- 

 cated in the southern-central part of 

 the state, and contains something over 

 1,900,000 acres. It is well timbered, 

 practically all unsurveyed, and has no 

 settlements except a few small mining 

 camps. The region is very rough, 

 and has few roads and trails. The 

 land has no agricultural value, but is 

 important for its forests, stock range 

 and mineral resources. The reserve is 

 created to protect the timber, but more 

 particularly to protect the watershed 

 of the Boise River, and thus to make 

 possible the success of the Boise Yal- 

 ley irrigation project, upon which de- 

 pends the agricultural future of the 



region. 



The President has proclaimed two 

 more forest reserves, the San Jran 

 in southeastern Colorado, and the 

 Payette in central Idaho. Each reserve 

 is about the same size, something 

 under 1,500,000 acres. The chief 

 purpose in creating each reserve is 

 to better protect watersheds upon 

 which depend vast areas that can be 

 reclaimed to agriculture by irrigation. 

 The land irrigable by streams from the 

 San Juan reserve extends beyond the 

 border of Colorado into New Mexico. 

 The timber in neither reserve is at 

 present very valuable, but it will im- 

 prove with time, especially if fire is 

 kept out. In the San Juan area there 

 has been some overgrazing, to the in- 

 jury of both the forest and the range. 

 In the Payette reserve the land is very 

 rough and the soil poor, while half 



