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The insect which is directly respons- destructive enemy of the lodgepole 



> ible for the death of such a large per- pine, western yellow pine, and mountain 



; centage of the lodgepole pine timber of or silver pine of the entire Pacific G > 



the northern section of the Park is and Northern Rocky Mountain region, 



known as the mountain pine beetle, A vast amount of the best timber of 



| the technical name of which is Den- these regions has been killed by this 



\droctonus monticolae Hopkins. It at- beetle during the past fifty years and 



i tacks perfectly healthy trees and kills has gone to waste through the agencies 



them by mining between the bark and of decay and forest fires, but, thanks to 



wood in such a manner as to stop the the discoveries of the experts of the 



1 movement of sap and kill the bark Bureau of Entomology, it can now be 



'which results in the final death of a tree controlled and a great waste of forest 



I within ten to twelve months after it is resources prevented in the future, 

 attacked. This beetle is the most 



FORESTRY LAW FOR VIRGINIA 



A\ T UMBER of Virginians, inter- the Board of Visitors of the college, 



ested in the proper management The law provides that this Executive 



of the forests of the state are Committee shall serve as a State For- 



urging the members of the state estry Commission without compensa- 



legislature to pass a new forestry law at tion. 



jthe present session. This law provides Besides providing for the other reg- 



for the establishment of a permanent ular duties of a state forester the 



I Forestry Board, which shall employ a proposed law provides that he shall 



technically trained forester who shall annually deliver a course of lectures at 



have power to carry on fire protective the Institute at Blacksburg upon for- 



work and other functions of a state for- estry and silviculture; shall give instruc- 



: ester. An appropriation of $10,000 is tion in farm forestry to th^ county 



.to be asked for carrying on the work demonstrators and by lectures before 



: during the present year. farmers institutes and other organiza- 



The law was drafted by Dr. Howard tions. 



S. Reed and his associates of the Vir- The prospects of this bill passing the 



ginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacks- legislature and being signed by the 



burg, and has already been fully ex- Governor are bright, 

 plained to the Executive Committee of 



GOVERNOR GLYNN FOR FORESTRY 



GOVERNOR Martin H. Glynn of products and a home for fish and game. 



New York is an ardent believer He urges resumption of buying of forest 



in forest conservation, and in lands for the extension of the Adiron- 



his message makes recommen- dack and Catskill parks. He calls at- 



dations regarding forestry conditions in tention to the fact that the reforestation 



the state which will be heartily endorsed of state lands is making slow progress 



by every one who appreciates the value and that instead of a few thousands, 



of the forests and their perpetuation, tens of thousands of acres should be 



He declares that the forests are the planted annually. He believes that the 



foundation of all conservation activities state should go further than providing 



as they provide water supply, forest seedlings at cost for the replanting of 



