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line of work which he pursued with a dinner to the lire wardens of Monroe 

 distinction in the Southwest, namely, County, Pa. It was the first affair of its 

 in his studies of the vegetation of Texas kind in Pennsylvania, and was given by 

 published in a series of bulletins by the the directors of the Association to mark- 

 United States Forest Service and the the inauguration of a new provision of 

 University of Texas. the law which places fire wardens under 



the direct supervision of a State for- 



In the study of the wood-using indus- ester in counties where the Commis- 

 tries of New York which was carried sioner of Forestry thinks it advisable 

 on by the United States Forest Service to make such appointments. The As- 

 and the New York State College of sociation asked for a district forester 

 Forestry and which resulted in a com- for Monroe County and John L. Stro- 

 prehensive report, it was seen on every beck was selected. The forest fire pro- 

 hand that there is great need of a tective service there has been reorgan- 

 broader reconnaissance survey of the ized and much higher efficiency in the 

 forests of the State. Such a survey of work is expected this season. 

 the plant life of the State will furnish 



a background and a basis upon which Representative Denver S. Church, of 



the progress of research will stand out California, has introduced a bill by 



in clear proportions. Such surveys of which the Secretary of the Interior is 



life conditions within a limited area or empowered, upon recommendation of 



within a State have come to be re- the National Forest Reservation Com- 



garded as essential in the working out mission, to exchange United States 



of any policy of conservation of natural lands now a part of the Sierra Xa- 



resources. tional Forest for privately owned tim- 

 ber lands lying within the boundaries 



Striking features of the economic of Sierra National Forest and the 



crisis which the lumbering interests of Yosemite National Park, lands thus ac- 



this country are now facing are brought quired by the United States within the 



to light in the announcement that at the boundaries of the Sierra Forest and of 



request of prominent lumber interests the Yosemite National Park to become 



a two years' course in the business of a part of each park respectively, 

 lumbering is to be given next year by 



the Harvard Graduate School of Busi- Secretary George H. Rhodes, of the 



ness Administration, in cooperation California Forest Protective Associa- 



with the Harvard Forestry School. tion, contributed to the California 



It has been discovered that forestry Arbor Day Manual for 1914 outlines 

 education, after the German pattern, for compositions, speeches, declama- 

 does not meet the needs of the lumber- tions, essays and orations for the pub- 

 ing interests. It is good and necessary, lie school children, which will be a 

 the lumbermen admit, to know how to great help in teaching them what all 

 protect existing tree growth, and to children should know about the forests 

 start new growths. But the present and inspiring not only a love of trees 

 and acute problem is how to manufac- but a realization of the needs of proper 

 ture the existing trees into lumber and care of the forests. The Association 

 to sell the lumber at a profit. The followed this up at the suggestion of 

 Federal Government itself is struggling the State Superintendent of Public In- 

 with this problem in its attempts to dis- struction with a letter to school teachers 

 pose of lumber from the public reserves, in the timbered districts calling their 



John M. Gries, of the United States attention to the outline in the Manual 



Bureau of Corporations, has been ap- and offering to help them in every way. 

 pointed by the Harvard Corporation to 



give the new course so far as it deals Congressman French, of Idaho, has 



directly with lumbering. introduced a bill in the House provid- 

 ing for the appropriation of not more 



The directors of the Pocono Pro- than $15,000 of the receipts from the 



tective Fire Association recently gave national forests in any State, for the 



