Forestry and Irrigation 



Vol. XII. 



APRIL, 1906. 



No. 4 



NEWS AND NOTES 



_,, _ All efforts for the estab- 



The Eastern ... , , r 



Reserves lisnment of national for- 



est reserves in the South- 

 ern Appalachians and the White 

 Mountains are being centered in the 

 hearing to take place before the 

 House Committee on Agriculture 

 Wednesday, April 25, at 10:30 A. M. 

 It is of the greatest importance that all 

 friends of the bill to establish these re- 

 serves give their assistance at this 

 time. The bill has already had a fa- 

 vorable report in the Senate and is 

 likely to reach a vote there any day. 

 But is is in the House that the most 

 force will be needed to secure early 

 and favorable action. All those who 

 feel a deep interest in this measure 

 and have not yet done so should write 

 or wire their views to their Congress- 

 men at once. 



Forestry The bill creating a for- 



Mar^and CStlT b ard f r the State 



of Maryland, introduced 



by Senator Brown, of Garrett county, 

 passed the legislature shortly before 

 the close of the session, and was 

 signed by the governor. The bill pro- 

 vides for a board composed of seven 

 persons, of which the governor, the 

 president of Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, the president of the Maryland 

 Agricultural College, the State geolo- 

 gist, and the State comptroller are ex- 

 officio members, while the two remain- 

 ing members are to be practical lum- 

 bermen, residents of the State. The 

 bill also provides for a State forester, 

 who shall have a practical and theo- 

 retical knowledge of forestry and the 

 board is now looking for such a man. 

 An important section of the bill au- 

 thorizes the purchase of land in the 

 name of the State, at a price not to ex- 



ceed $5 per acre, suitable for forest 

 culture and reserves, using for such 

 purposes any surplus money which 

 may be standing to the credit of the 

 forest reserve fund. Stringent pro- 

 visions for the prevention of forest 

 fires are also included in the bill. 



Theodore Sedgwick 

 Obituary Gold, a veteran agricul- 



turist of Connecticut and 

 one of the very first in his section of 

 the country to take an interest in for- 

 estry, died at his home in West Corn- 

 wall on March 19. In addition to his 

 connection with many other orani- 

 zations, Mr. Gold was an active mem- 

 ber of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation and took a keen interest in all 

 that pertained to forestry in this coun- 

 try. He was also a valued contributor 

 to this magazine from time to time. 



That the Forest Service 

 is being conducted on a 

 high plane is shown by 

 the fact that since the transfer of for- 

 est reserve administration from the 

 Department of the Interior to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, a number of 

 supervisors and rangers have been dis- 

 missed from the service for wrong- 

 doing, after careful investigations. 

 Criminal proceedings were brought 

 against one supervisor, Everett B. 

 Thomas, of the San Gabriel Forest 

 Reserve, with headquarters at Los An- 

 geles, Cal. It was found that his ac- 

 counts, for a period of over three 

 years, had been constantly falsified. In- 

 dictment was secured against Thomas 

 last fall on fifteen counts, and on 

 March 16 he was convicted on ten of 

 the counts. On March 20 he was sen- 

 tenced to three years' imprisonment at 

 hard labor with a fine of $7,000. 



Forest 

 Reserve Ad- 

 ministration 



