STATE FORESTS AS BIRD SANCTUARIES 221 



subject would require much more time consider the future of the recreation of 



and space than can be allotted to an hunting for the average man. One 



article of this nature. In a general means of assuring him the opportunity 



way most people will agree that such a for healthful sport in the future is to 



splendid bird as our New England make State forests public game pre- 



ruffed grouse, or partridge, should by serves. Under game preserving meth- 



some means be assured perpetuation in ods, State forest lands could probably 



goodly numbers in our forests. With- be made to produce a large head of 



out doubt this and other game birds game annually, and a certain amount of 



would profit largely by the destruction carefully restricted shooting in them 



of predatory animals and other measures would not decrease the breeding stock 



for the protection of the other birds, from year to year, and would be in 



The question then naturally arises, no way inconsistent with the complete 



should shooting of game birds be allowed protection and increase of the non- 



on these forests ? It is one perhaps which game birds. Even on the remarkable 



we are not yet quite ready to decide. sanctuary of Baron Von Berlepsch, a 



In her large Forest Preserve, New certain amount of game shooting is 



York allows the taking of game under done, without resulting in any progres- 



practically the same regulations as else- sive decrease in the amount of game, 



where in the State. Pennsylvania has Under any such arrangement, however, 



marked off inviolable sanctuaries in the it is of the utmost importance that the 



middle of many of her forests, and the management of the animal life (as well 



overflow of game from these protected as the vegetable) be kept in competent 



areas is said to be large. At a time hands and out of politics, to the end 



when the posting of both public and that the killing of game be regulated in 



private lands against shooting by the such a way as to insure a plentiful 



public is proceeding at a rapid rate, and supply at all times, and that the abund- 



many sportsmen are complaining bitterly ance of bird life be the primary con- 



because of that fact, it behooves us to sideration. 



*From an address at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Forestry Association. 



Receipts from the use of national forest resources were greatest in Arizona last year. 



The State of New York has just published a comprehensive report of its wood-using industries. 



Of the three Pacific coast states, Oregon and Washington far outstrip California in the work 

 done by private owners for forest protection. 



Manufacturers of greenhouses and makers of boxes are getting in touch so that the latter may use 

 for box cleats the cypress waste from the greenhouses. 



The development of quicksilver mines promises to make large demands for cordwood and con- 

 struction timbers on the Tonto national forest, Arizona. 



Dr. C. D. Marsh, of the Federal Bureau of Plant Industry, is delivering a series of illustrated 

 lectures to stockmen in the west on the subject of plants poisonous to stock. 



The Biltmore Forest School, established in 1898 and therefore the oldest forest school in America, 

 has been discontinued. Dr. C. A . Schenck, its director, has returned to his home in Germany. 



Lodgepole pine seed sown broadcast on the snow in southern Idaho last spring germinated when 

 the snow melted, and as many as 60 little trees were counted to the square foot. The summer was so 

 dry, however, that most of the plants died, except where sheltered by brush or logs. 



