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engaged simply in lumbering. The tendency 

 is toward a closer utilization near the forests. 

 It is such concerns as Newton & Thompson 

 and the International Paper Company, that 

 are dependent upon a permanent wood sun- 

 ply, that will save the forests of Vermont. 

 The state forester is constantly having more 

 demands for advice and for marking. This 

 marking is done for any land owner in the 

 state on areas up to 50 acres a year simply 

 for the traveling expenses and board of the 

 men while doing the marking. In most 

 classes of timber two men can blaze the trees 

 to be cut on 50 acres in two or three days. 



Pennsylvania. 



The Pennsylvania Department of Forestry 

 has had four of its foresters assisting the 

 Federal Forest Service in the collection of 

 data concerning the wood-utilizing industries 

 within the state. The field work has been 

 completed. 



During the spring planting season there 

 were set out on the state reserves two and a 

 quarter million seedlings. Since the planting 

 operations the foresters have been busy open- 

 ing, cleaning, and improving roads, building 

 fire towers and telephone lines. During the 

 last two months fourteen new telephones were 

 installed and about fifty miles of new tele- 

 phone line built, or newly acquired lines re- 

 paired. 



The state has recently acquired a tract of 

 land at $4 per acre which has a grove of 

 tulip poplar covering about fifty acres. 

 Eighty-five per cent of the trees on the area 

 are tulip trees ranging from 4 to 8 inches in 

 diameter and average 80 feet in height. 

 There is also a grove of almost pure black 

 walnut covering twenty acres. The walnuts 

 are straight, tall, and thrifty. The soil is 

 moist and sandy. 



The recent Legislature yielded to a large 

 number of petitioners in northeastern Penn- 

 sylvania and appropriated $1,000 for the re- 

 building of a dam on the state reserve in 

 Pike County. The appropriation was given 

 to the Department of Forestry to carry out 

 the provisions of the act. The department 

 built the dam on the site of an old sawmill 

 dam, and built it considerably higher. The 

 new dam is bedded on solid slate rock, with 

 a concrete toe and proper iron dowels. It is 

 six feet higher than the spillway of the old 

 dam and forms a pond covering about 800 

 acres. 



The forest reserves are to be made recre- 

 ation grounds for the people as well as to 

 be used for growing timber. This artificial 

 lake makes one of the largest in the state 

 and will afford a splendid opportunity to 

 many to hunt and fish. At the same time, 

 under the protection of the forestry officials, 

 game birds and fish will no doubt multiply in 

 the locality. 



Connecticut 



Former State Forester Samuel N. Spring 

 of Connecticut has taken up his duties at 

 Ithaca, as professor of forestry in the New 

 York State College of Agriculture. W. O. 

 Filley, who was Mr. Spring's assistant for 

 the past three years, and who since October 

 1, 1911, has held the appointment as assistant 

 state forester, has succeeded him. A. E. Moss, 

 recently of the Forest Service, is to be For- 

 ester Filley's assistant, although no assistant 

 state forester will be appointed at present. 



Alabama 



John Wallace, Jr., game and fish commis- 

 sioner of Alabama, is advocating a move- 

 ment looking to converting all state lands, 

 whether held in fee or in trust, into state 

 game refuges and forest preserves. 



Alabama owns hundreds of thousands of 

 acres of swamp and overflowed lands, Six- 

 teenth Section school lands and tax redemp- 

 tion lands. It is Commissioner Wallace's pur- 

 pose, by an Act of the Legislature, to set 

 aside these lands as nesting, resting and 

 breeding places for birds and game, to be 

 held forever sacred for that purpose, also for 

 forest preserves. The Department of Game 

 and Fish would employ wardens to patrol 

 the lands and see to it that the birds and 

 game are not disturbed, that the growing 

 timber is not cut down and destroyed and 

 that no fire is set to the forests. 



This movement has gained great impetus 

 in Alabama, and the people seem to be a unit 

 in demanding that the scheme be enacted 

 into a law. In addition to this specific plan, 

 Wallace is endeavoring to work out a gen- 

 eral conservation movement which contem- 

 plates the creation of a state conservation 

 commission to have charge of the manage- 

 ment, control and development of all of the 

 state's natural resources. 



Maryland 



The Maryland State Board of Forestry is 

 making extensive preparations for the fire 

 season this autumn. Additional patrolmen 

 have been engaged and several lookout sta- 

 tions are being provided for in the mountain 

 section. 



Mr. Chapin Jones, who came to Maryland 

 as assistant state forester on August 1, will 

 have charge of the fire protection work. 

 Mr. Jones graduated from the Yale Forest 

 School in 1909 and has since been in the 

 employ of the United States Forest Service, 

 forestry department of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad and in State work in New Hamp- 

 shire. 



Maryland is co-operating with the Forest 

 Service under the Weeks Law and, with the 

 increased appropriations for fire protection 



