THE GOVERNMENT FORESTS 



and 2, COO miles of trails were built. MONEY FOR Tin; >T.\TKS 



The present value of all public improve- 



ments on the forests is somewhat over ~ V" ' "" "' 



$3,000,000, two-thirds of this amount the / ross fW* * n \ the , forests is 



having been put into lines of communi- B? d over '? he S . tat f ^'- the , Pederal 



cation and protection. Government for the benefit o county 



n . , schools and roads. An additional K) 



Receipts from all sources for the per cent is expended in building roa ds 



year were slightly under $2,500,000, and trails for the benent ()| - t , K ; ))]]r 



showing an increase of 14 per cent over About $ 58 7,000 will be available for the 



1932, while expenditures for admims- States during the current year, from lasl 



tration and protection were slightly yea r's receipts, besides $235,000 pro- 



over $4,600,000, showing a decrease Vided for in the road fund Altogether 



from 1912 of 2 per cent. It is pointed including special funds to Arizona and 



out that the work of examining and ap- New Mexico, the national forests pro- 



praising timber prior to sale is seriously vided nearly $867,000 to be expended 



behindhand in some regions and that f or the benent of the States in which 



larger receipts from timber are contin- ;hey are situated. 

 gent upon the funds that can be made 



available for this purpose. Although APPALACHIAN FORESTS. 



money for timber-sale work is neces- More than 700 thousand acres have 



sanly subtracted from what is needed been acquired for national forest pur- 



to protect the forests against fire, im- poses in the southern Appalachians and 



proved organization of the fire-protec- White mountains, of which considera- 



tive system has increased its efficiency. b ly more than half was secured during 



Owing partly to favorable weather con- 1913> These lands are being protected 



ditions the total fire loss was only against fire, and the work of the Gov- 



$67,000, less than 19 per cent of last ernment has greatly strengthened local 



year, which was the best to date. sentiment against forest fires. Some 



The resident population of the for- 250 miles of trail, to help in fire control, 



ests is given as nearly 200,000, and the were completed during the year. 

 transient population as over 1,500,000. 

 Recreation use of the forests is in- 



creasing greatly, and is in some places Co-operation with States in protect- 



giving rise to the need for careful sani- ing forested watersheds from fire has 



tary regulation in the interest of the brought about a co-operative field or- 



1,200 cities deriving their water sup- ganization in fifteen States and the 



plies from streams protected by the same arrangement is contemplated with 



forests. three others. 



FORESTRY ADDRESSES FOR STUDENTS 



THE address on the Conservation have been so credited but unfortunately 



of the Natural Resources of the footnote stating that the addres 



the Nation by Henry Sturgis was delivered at Tome was dropped 



Drinker, LLD., president of through an error while the article was 



Lehigh University, and president of going through the press It is a type 



the American Forestry Association, of forestry address setting forth el< 



published in the December number of mentary forestry principles in a > 



AMERICAN FORESTRY, was an address reach and interest the intelligent ; 



delivered at the Tome Institute, of student. Dr. Drinker expects to 



Port Deposit, Maryland, in October at this addres 



the invitation of the Institute. Its pub- Ohio, before the student bod; 



lication in our December issue should Institution on January 16th. 



