1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



Gl 



ing. Indeed, red gum has only recent- 

 ly been handled with sufficient success 

 during seasoning to render it a reliable 

 wood. It is believed that with due 

 care the troubles with tupelo gum may 

 be overcome as successfully as has 

 been the case with red gum, with re- 

 gard to which the Forest Service re- 

 cently published a bulletin dealing both 

 with the commercial uses and with the 

 mechanical properties of the wood. 



not quite, four billion feet of standing 

 tupelo on the lands of the association. 



Foresters 

 for Reserves 



It is the intention of the 

 Forest Service to add a 

 trained forester to the 

 executive force of each forest reserve. 

 This is to introduce practical forestry 

 on all the reserves. In addition to his 

 general duties he will act as a techni- 

 cal assistant in mapping, estimating, 



Detail View of Complete West Entrance of Tunnel just below Shoshone Dam Site 

 on Canyon Road, Shoshone Project, Wyoming 



Tupelo gum occurs through the 

 coastal region of the Atlantic states 

 from Virginia to northern Florida, 

 through the gulf states to Texas, 

 through xArkansas and southern Mis- 

 souri to western Kentucky and Ten- 

 nessee, and to the valley of the Wabash 

 River. It grows only in swamps and 

 wetter situations, often in mixture 

 with cypress and, in rainy seasons, 

 stands in from six to twenty feet of 

 water. There are said to be almost, if 



and disposing of the timber. For this 

 purpose the following appointments 

 of forest assistants have just been 

 made : R. P. Imes, to assist Supervisor 

 Seth Bullock in the Black Hills Forest 

 Reserve in South Dakota and Wyo- 

 ming; E. H. Hereford, to assist Su- 

 pervisor Fred S. Breen in the Black 

 Mesa and Grand Canyon Reserves in 

 California; and A. R. Powers, to as- 

 sist Supervisor L. A. Barrett in the 

 Plumas Forest Reserve, California. 



