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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



New York 



For the purpose of securing better forest 

 management, the Conservation Commission 

 of New York State is perfecting arrange- 

 ments to examine about thirty thousand acres 

 of forest lands owned by the International 

 Paper Company in Township 6, John Brown 

 Tract, near Big Moose in Herkimer County. 

 While this work will be performed under the 

 direction of the Conservation Department, 

 the expense will be borne by the Paper 

 Company, which has expressed a desire^ to 

 cooperate with the Department in practical 

 conservation of the forest lands which it 

 owns. 



The Department will prepare a map of the 

 area which is to be lumbered, showing the 

 location and extent of various types of for- 

 est growth and the quantity of timber. On 

 this data as a basis, the scientific lumber 

 operations will be planned. The results will 

 be not only a prevention of waste, but the 

 perpetuation of the forest growth for the 

 future. 



The International Paper Company owns a 

 larger area of lands in the Adirondacks from 

 which it secures pulp wood supplies for its 

 paper mills, and for many years the concern 

 has been cutting timber conservatively, tak- 

 ing but few trees under twelve inches in 

 diameter, leaving the smaller trees for re- 

 production and future supply of timber. The 

 company desires to still further improve its 

 lumbering methods and has sought the ad- 

 vice and assistance of the Conservation Com- 

 mission, which has readily responded inas- 

 much as one of its duties is to conserve the 

 forests protecting the important watersheds 

 of the State. 



Connecticut 



In a recent talk at New Britain, Conn., 

 State Forester Samuel N. Spring made an 

 urgent plea for more strenuous efforts to 

 protect the forests against fire. He told 

 graphically how 1,000 fires last year had laid 

 waste 50,000 acres of timber land. He 

 brought home to New Britain a realization 

 of its duty in the prevention of such waste 

 and it was gratifying to learn that that city 

 has paid more attention to fires in its sur- 

 rounding woodlands than many Connecticut 

 municipalities. In each city the fire chief is 

 ex-officio, fire warden and because of mani- 

 fold duties many fire chiefs, according to the 

 speaker, have spent little effort along this 

 line. 



be exchanged for National forest land of 

 equal area and value, President Taft has 

 signed a proclamation which makes it possi- 

 ble for the State to select immediately 60,- 

 143 acres of land from the Harney and 

 Sioux National forests. This will permit of 

 indemnity selection by the State in place of 

 school lands lying along and within the 

 boundaries of the Black Hills National for- 

 est, which will become part of the forest. 



Indiana 



Because approximately 2,000,000 acres of 

 land in Indiana is virtually lying idle, which 

 might be producing timber of highest value, 

 the State Board of Forestry has issued a 

 bulletin to Indiana farmers and owners of 

 woodlots impressing the need of systematic 

 and intelligent culture of the Hoosier wood- 

 lot. 



Florida 



Dr. Raphael Zon, of the Forest Service, 

 on a recent trip to Tampa to investigate 

 the culture of eucalyptus there, said that 

 the experiment, although not a spectacular 

 success, is scientifically valuable as it shows 

 the conditions under which the trees will 

 thrive and establishes beyond a doubt that 

 eucalyptus trees will flourish as well here as 

 anywhere else in the country if given the 

 proper care. In the experiments tried on 

 Grand Central extension, there was practi- 

 cally no attention paid to the trees beyond 

 planting them. They were set just before 

 the dry season of last year and most of 

 those which died succumbed because of lack 

 of moisture. This was shown conclusively 

 by the fact that in the lower ground where 

 the moisture accumulated and remained 

 much longer than in the high sand, the trees 

 thrived fairly well. 



South Dakota 



To provide for carrying out an agreement 

 under which South Dakota school lands will 



Oregon 



Oregon is going to have better forest fire 

 protection this vear than ever before in _its 

 history. It will have a larger appropriation 

 from the Federal Government, greater help 

 from individual timber owners and, it is be- 

 lieved, more liberal assistance from the State 

 itself, judging from the expressions at the 

 annual meeting of the Oregon Forest Fire 

 Association. G. H. Cecil, in charge of the 

 Government Forest Service in the Portland 

 district, stated that the Federal Government 

 had promised $10,000 for fire protection the 

 coming season, or $5,000 more than last year. 

 State Forester E. A. Eliott stated he be- 

 lieved the State would probably see it good 

 business to appropriate $100,000 for forest 

 fire protection for the next two years, in- 

 stead of $60,000, the amount appropriated 

 for the purpose during the past two years. 



