STATE WORK 



Pennsylvania he gives the area burned over, cost of fight- 



ing, etc. The total damage in 1911, how- 



At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvan evef> wag only a little more thaa one-fifth 



State Foresters at Harnsburg on March 6 ag great ag in 1910j but sorne what greater 



and 7, Pennsylvania, commended for the ad- than in 19Q9 



vanced position it has taken in conservation During 1911 there were 1,064 forests fires, 



and in forestry management with its 9 < 2,000 aga i nst 738 in 1910 and 638 in 1909. The 



acres of preserves, was warned to take the tQtal damage during 1911 was $128,451.50 



best protective measures possible against for- against $628,989.20 in 1910, and $100,000 in 



est fires by Prof. Filibert Roth, of the Um- ^ 



versity of Michigan, and F. A. Gaylord, o The area burn ed over in 1911 was 55,182 



the New York Conservation Commission. acreg Q{ forest i an( j anc j 227,102 open chapar- 



Prof . Roth declared that stumps were monu- raj land . in 1910j 2 16,069 acres of forest 



ments of ignorance and asserted that they lands and 303,394 acres of chaparral; in 



could be made to yield handsome returns i 1909) 76j7 3o acr es of forest land and 279,539 



properly handled. acres of chaparral. 



Prof Gaylord urged that the foresters be 



put to work to erect telephone lines, which, Wisconsin 

 he said, had been done in his State at a cost with the yiew of developing a plan for the 

 of from $7 to $9 a mile, and which had ut iij zat i on o f the millions of acres of cut- 

 proved of great value in calling men to ai< Qver lands in v/isconsin, the United States 

 in fighting fires. Government has decided to make extensive 

 William F. Dague, of Clearfield, talkec experiments in forest on the Sparta military 

 the protection afforded by taking out stumps reservation. The military reservation con- 

 and waste and the income produced there- taing 2 o,ooo acres, a large part of which is 

 from ; T. Roy Morton, Petersburg, on more ava ji ab i e for the experiments which are to 

 rapid growth; Prof. E. A. Zeig'er, Mon be under the immediate direction of W. B. 

 Alto, on early returns, and Harold E. Bry- pj per) supe rvisor of the Marquette and Mich- 

 ner, New Germantown, on clearing methods. igan nat i on al forests, and are to start at 

 In the afternoon the papers were by once pines f rom Northern Minnesota are 

 esters, including John A. Bastian Loyalsock ; tQ bfi planted principally. 

 James E. McNeal, George H. Wirt, Lewis The entire nor thern half of Wisconsin 

 E. Staley, Harry A. Thompson and i-orr wag until comparatively recent years, occu- 

 H. Dutlinger, who declared roads and mar- pjed by extens j ve p i ne forests, which have 

 kets should be studied, as the two went hand almost al i been cut) an d while much of the 

 in hand, and who predicted that, with better Denuded land is valuable for agricultural pur- 

 roads, the State's income from forests would pQses> a large part of ; t can be best em- 

 increase. . ployed for the development of new forests 

 Much time was devoted to the business ag goon ag the metho d of handling and 

 side of forest management in the papers ot Bowing them has been well worked out. 



Foresters John W. Seltzer, Coburn; John L. 



Strobeck, Crosco ; Homer S. Metz-er, Logan- Minnesota 



town; Walter D. Ludwig, Boalsburg; John A meeting of the representatives of Cen- 



R. Williams, Rector, and D. H. Warh Id, tral and Northern Minnesota railroads was 



Milroy. held at Duluth recently with W. T. Cox, the 



Former Congressman N. W. Wheeler and gtate forester) and other representatives of 



T. D. Collins, of Forest County, both {he gtate and Nationa i Forestry Depart- 



them lumbermen, snoke of the financial ben- mentg The meeting was for the purpose 



efits, while former Mayor E. A. Weimer, ot of discuss j ng fi re prevention and methods 



Lebanon, and Forestry Commissioner b. ti. for accomp lishing the best results. W. H. 



Elliott, recommended more planting and the Gemmell, general manager of the Minnesota 



extension of precautionary methods to pre- and Internationa l road, was chairman of the 



vent forest fires. Prof. I. T. Worthley and meet i ng 



Joseph Illick, of . the Mount < Alto Forestry The railroad men say that t h ey will make 



Academy, dealt with the question of manage- ;t their business to give care ful attention to 



ment in reference to getting the best out fife prevention wh j ch costs the roads not 



rangers. on l y f or pro perty that may be destroyed and 



judgments procured by settlers, but the loss 



California f vast sums in prospective freights by the 



destruction of timber by fire. 

 There were 326 more forest fires in Cali- 

 fornia during 1911 than during 1910, and 426 Michigan 

 more than in 1909, according to a report _by That the Northern Forest Protective As- 

 State Forester G. Morris Homans, in which sociation, organized in Marquette in the fall 



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