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started and by promp notice to fire wardens 

 in the vicinity have brought about the ex- 

 tinguishing of the fires before they had 

 reached dangerous proportions. The danger 

 from fires is usually far greater in the spring, 

 and it is understood that the lookouts will 

 go on duty then, probably in April. Faith- 

 ful work by the lookouts in a dry season 

 is sure to mean a big .saving of property, and 

 the system is one that should be maintained. 



New York State 



New York State now has on hand 11,000,- 

 000 trees to be used in replanting denuded 

 State lands and for sale to private land 

 owners at cost. With the establishment of a 

 new nursery this year and the extension of 

 the old nurseries, the output of trees next 

 year will be doubled. Within three years, at 

 the present rate of increase in public and 

 private tree planting, at least one tree will 

 be started for every one cut down. It is 

 estimated that last year five trees were 

 destroyed to every one planted. 



Maryland 



Fire protection has been afforded forests 

 in Washington, Garrett, Allegany, and Fred- 

 erick counties, Md., by the Department of 

 Agriculture in cooperation with the State 

 authorities. The government will spend $600 

 during the year for forest patrols and other 

 protective measures. 



The State authorities have selected the 

 patrolmen, and these will follow a route de- 

 termined by maps of the localities. 



North Carolina 



Daniel W. Adams, of the Forest Service, 

 has examined 5,000 acres of land in Burke 

 Township and will report on it to the Forest 

 Commission. The commission will consider 

 about 120,000 acres situated in the Nantahala, 

 Mount Mitchell and Pisgah areas in North 

 Carolina, the Savannah area in Georgia and 

 the White Top area in Virginia and Ten- 

 nessee. 



These lands will be recommended to the 

 commission by the field force who examined 

 them. Mr. Adams said that there is a great 

 deal of land in the Pisgah and Smoky moun- 

 tain areas which the men in the forest ser- 

 vice have been unable to reach yet owing to 

 insufficient field force. 



Mr. Adams is enthusiastic in his efforts to 

 have the State avail itself of the $200,000 

 available annually from the government for 

 the next five years for the purpose of keep- 

 ing down and fighting forest fires in the 

 sections in which lands will be purchased by 

 the government. 



Kentucky 



The women of Kentucky are actively work- 

 ing in the interest of the forestry bill which 

 is to be presented to the legislature and are 

 arousing a great deal of influence in favor 

 of the bill. At a meeting of the Legisla- 

 tive Committee of the Women's Club of 



Louisville, the other day, Mrs. Mason Maury 

 of Louisville gave an analysis of the present 

 condition of the timber resources of Ken- 

 tucky and the workings of the proposed bill, 

 which is designated as "an act to establish a 

 State board of forestry, and prescribing its 

 duties." 



"Our annual timber growth is at a min- 

 imum," said Mrs. Maury. "We are cutting 

 wood but not producing. At the present 

 rate of consumption sixty-five counties will 

 be without merchantable timber in from two 

 to eight years. The value of the timber as 

 it leaves the forest is $24,000,000 annually, 

 and it rests with us whether or not we pre- 

 serve this enormous income, which affects 

 the prosperity of every citizen, or whether 

 we supinely allow the destruction of Ken- 

 tucky's forests. 



"If it is to be saved, we must have better 

 forest management, educative and legisla- 

 tive." 



In this connection Mrs. Maury suggested 

 a course in forestry be included in the cur- 

 riculum of the public schools, even if other 

 courses of study be eliminated or abridged. 



At the close of the address a vote of ap- 

 proval on the part of all present at the 

 meeting, whether members of the club or not, 

 was given the plan as outlined by Mrs. 

 Maury, and support for the measure 

 promised. 



Arkansas 



Forest Supervisor Francis Kiefer says of 

 the forestry work in Akansas : 



"The greatest progress of the year was the 

 improved efficiency of the fire protection 

 service throughout the national forests in this 

 district. This marked advance is due to bet- 

 ter organization of the fire fighting force. 



"Eighteen look-out stations will be erected 

 in the Ozark and the Arkansas national for- 

 ests upon the highest mountains, which will 

 enable the watchmen to see every part of the 

 forest. Every tower will be equipped with 

 a range-finding instrument and a chart; and 

 a fire may be located the minute it starts. A 

 telephone connection with the Forest Rang- 

 ers will bring out the fire fighters at once. 



"While it is true that whole forests are 

 not consumed here as the big fires in the 

 Rockies and the Northwest are, the effect is 

 no Jess damaging. The young reproduction, 

 which represents our future forests, is en- 

 tirely destroyed in case of fire, and, although 

 it is replaced, it consists mostly of sprouts 

 and revived seedlings, which never can make 

 the healthy growth of seedlings unscathed by 

 fire. The forest floor, the grass and leaves, 

 is wholly destroyed whenever there is a fire. 

 _ "The cooperation of the settlers in the na- 

 tional forests in fire protection is a great 

 aid in the suppression of fires." 



Colorado 



District Forester Smith Riley, of Colorado, 

 is preparing a recommendation that 20,000 

 acres on the watershed of Pike's Peak be re- 



