FOREST NOTES 



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25 to Walla Walla, Wash.; and 25 to by the States and parks receiving the 



points in Utah. The cost of capture elk. The loss in capturing and u]i to 



and loading on board the cars at Gardi- the time of delivery at their destination 



ner was $5 per head, which was paid was but 22 animals out of 538 shipped." 



FOREST NOTES 



In spite of the fact that New York view into the various courses given in 



leads all the other States in the amount the lower grades, 

 of its State Forests and has done more 



planting of idle land than any other At the recent meeting of the Pocono 



State, New York as a whole is decidedly Protective Fire Association of Monroe 



~ ,. County, Pennsylvania, the keynote <>t 



apathetic along Forestry lines, especially the ^^ Q{ ^ b()ard of (Hrectors was 



in the matter of the proper use of its the need for a widespread education of 

 forest resources. The State College of tne peO ple of the community. The di- 

 Forestry feels that the only way of im- rectors realize that effective work in 

 proving the situation is to carry through keeping down forest fires depends much 

 an aggressive campaign of education more upon the active interest of the 

 along forestry lines beginning with the resident population than upon the con- 

 children of the State. The question of tributions of a few owners of extensive 

 how to educate the child along forestry tracts of woodland. So a movement is 

 lines is a bit perplexing in view of the 11OW mider wa Y to instruct the residents 

 complexity of the curriculum in gram- of /he Pocono region as to the need 

 mar grades and high schools. Too and value of taking care of the woods, 



and in this manner to extend the limits 

 of the activity of the association by tak- 

 ing as many persons as possible into 

 to teach work outlined for present m | mbers hi p ; without regard to the hold- 

 courses. The College of Forestry by j Q fon t knds T uge of 

 no means urges the insertion of a sepa- the circulation of tracts , and newspaper 

 rate course in Forestry. It does be- art i c le s are expected to influence grad- 

 heve, however, that the children of the ually the adult population, while the 

 State can be thoroughly acquainted with scnoo i children are being taught the les- 

 the importance of Forestry, its place in son o f forest conservation through a 

 our economic life and its possibilities systematic course of instruction, under 

 as a State and National industry by the hearty co-operation of the County 

 simply injecting the Forestry point of Superintendent. 



often schools are burdened with too 

 many courses or have all too little time 



STATE NEWS 



Maine 



The Forest Fire Protective System of 

 Maine, which was among the first established, 

 has been greatly improved the past season 

 by the addition of fifteen new lookout sta- 

 tions. This brings the number of station -, 

 up to forty-three, and Forest Commissioner 

 Blaine S. Viles plans to erect six or more 

 new stations the coming year. The fire loss 

 on the wild lands of the State for the past 

 season amounted to only $29,212.00. As this 

 area includes nearly ten million acres of for- 

 ests, with an estimated value of from sev- 

 enty,-five to one hundred million dollars, it 



will be seen that this loss is comparatively 

 nothing. 



While the season was not a particularly 

 dry one, except for short periods of drought, 

 there were no heavy rains, and a great mam 

 fires started which would have caused heavy 

 damage had they not been promptly extin- 

 guished. 



The Lookout Stations reported throe hun- 

 dred and sixty-five fires during the 

 and patrolmen seventy-one. 



While it is realized that there may be a 

 year of such extreme drought that even the 

 most advanced measures may fail to pn< 



