1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



381 



Another new project in extension work 

 is the establishment of rangers' nur- 

 series. Rangers will be encouraged 

 and assisted to make a good showing 

 in small nurseries, in which suitable 

 species for planting in each locality 

 are to be tried. 



Mr. Bristow Adams, former 1 -- asso- 

 ciate editor of Forestry and Irriga- 

 tifn, has been appointed to a position 

 in the office of the editor, Forest Ser- 

 vice. Mr. Adams is especially well 

 fitted for his work with the govern- 

 ment, having had a long experience in 

 newspaper and editorial work. He 

 will be particularly valuable to the 

 Forest Service because he has had an 

 intimate knowledge of the forest move- 

 ment during the past five years, as well 

 as a thorough understanding of irriga- 

 tion problems which are often closely 

 related to forestry. Readers of the 

 magazine will recall a number of ar- 

 ticles which Mr. Adms has contribut- 

 ed, both on forestry and irrigation sub- 

 jects. 



Mr. Gilford Pinchot, Forester of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, re- 

 turns August 21 from Europe. He 

 left Washington July 7 last. The Na 

 tional Irrigation Congress will be held 

 at Boise, Idaho, September 3 to 8, in- 

 clusive, and owing to the close com- 

 munity of interests between the Recla- 

 mation Service and the Forest Service, 

 this meeting will bring together a large 

 number of those interested in forest 

 work, both in public and private life. 

 Mr. Pinchot, who has been invited by 

 Gov. Pardee, of California, through 

 the executive committee of the Con- 

 gress, will attend. The Congress is 

 the fourteenth held in the interest of 

 irrigation. 



Mr. William L. Hall, in charge of 

 forest products, in the Forest Service, 

 has been for some time in the West, 

 where he is engaged in the administra- 

 tive inspection of the timber tests be- 

 ing carried on at various poinrs in co- 

 operation with Western universities. 

 His return is expected by the middle of 

 September. 



Captain James B. Adams, special 

 fiscal agent of the Forest Service, and 

 in charge of the office of records, is in 

 the West, where he will preside at a 

 number of meetings of forest super- 

 visors. These meetings have for their 

 object a fuller understanding on the 

 part of forest officers of the provisions 

 of the "Use Book," or manual of in- 

 structions and regulations for the use 

 of the resources of forest reserves, as 

 well as a closer and more personal re- 

 lation between reserve officers and 

 Washington. Reserve problems will 

 be discussed and each supervisor will 

 be able both to bring forward his own 

 difficulties for solution and to contrib- 

 ute out of his own experience toward 

 the solution of the difficulties of others. 



The first of these supervisors' meet- 

 ings will be held at Glenwood Springs, 

 Colo., Angst 20 to 24, and the follow- 

 ing forest officers will have instruc- 

 tions to attend: F. R. Sherwm, Jr., 

 forest ranger in charge of the Pikes 

 Peak Forest Reserve, Colo. ; Thomas 

 Hogan, forest ranger of the Park 

 Range Forest Reserve, Colo. ; Eugene 

 Williams, supervisor of the West 

 Mountains and San Isabel Forest Re- 

 serves, Colo. ; R. W. Shellabarger, su- 

 pervisor of the Cochetopa Forest Re- 

 serve, Colo. ; James A. Blair, forest 

 ranger in charge of the Leadvilie For- 

 est Reserve, Colo. ; W. R. Kruetzier, 

 forest ranger in charge of the Gunni- 

 son Forest Reserve, Colo. ; David An 

 derson, forest ranger in charge of the 

 Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, 

 Colo. ; Harry Gibler, forest ranger in 

 charge of the White River Forest Re- 

 serve, Colo. ; O. C. Snow, forest ranger 

 in charge of the La Sal Forest Re- 

 serve, Colo. ; H. N. Wheeler, super- 

 visor of the Montezuma Forest Re- 

 serve, Colo. ; F. O. Spencer, supervisor 

 of the San Juan Forest Reserve, Colo., 

 and forest inspector W. T. Cox. The 

 second meeting will be held at Provo, 

 Utah, headquarters of the Uinta Re- 

 serve, from August 25 to August 27. 

 Forest Inspector Potter, in charge of 

 grazing, and Forest Inspector Bene- 

 dict, who alternates with Forest In- 

 spector Du Bois in charge of the office 



