FOREST NOTES 



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of which 15,115 acres is public land, 

 the remainder having been heretofore 

 disposed of under the public land laws. 

 The President, upon Secretary Lane's 

 recommendation, has also signed a 

 Proclamation enlarging the Fillmore 

 National Forest in Utah to the extent 

 of 91,630 acres additional. This action 

 was taken principally in order to secure 

 a better administrative boundary for the 

 forest and to protect the water shed in 

 the vicinity of the town of Beaver. The 

 additional withdrawn land is largely 

 surveyed and unappropriated. 



Forest Officer and found to be more 

 valuable for agriculture than for Forest 

 purposes. Those whose applications 

 within the Apache National Forest were 

 favorably acted upon during the month 

 of April are: H. R. Hynson, Clifton, 

 Arizona; Amos Reamtsma, Eagar, Ari- 

 zona. In addition to this, 1 .::.'!( acres 

 were listed to applicants within other 

 national forests in Arizona, and 1,72S 

 acres within national forests in New 

 .vlexico. 



The Canadian Parks Branch has just 

 gotten out a new fire-warning notice for 

 use in the National Parks throughout 

 the Dominion of Canada. These have 

 been prepared in a very striking and 

 attractive form. Formerly such notices 

 were prepared on cloth and were easily 

 destroyed by the weather and not in- 

 frequently by porcupines. The new 

 notices, however, are made of tin and 

 the face with baked enamel. These 

 metal notices will withstand any kind 

 of weather and are far superior and 

 much more durable than the old cloth 

 notices. The initial cost is higher, but 

 this is justified when the superior last- 

 ing qualities of the tin over that of the 

 cloth notices is taken into account. The 

 lettering is in red and black, sufficiently 

 large to be easily readable at a distance. 

 At the top of the notice is a picture of 

 a forest fire, depicting in a vivid man- 

 ner the ravage and devastating influ- 

 ence of fires to the timber resources of 

 the country. 



These notices have been sent out to 

 the various Park Superintendents and 

 will be posted up in conspicuous places 

 throughout the National Parks. 



The annual meeting of the North 

 Carolina Forestry Association, which 

 was unavoidably postponed from April 

 to June, has been called to meet in 

 Asheville on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, June 10 and 11, 1914. The Appa- 

 lachian Park Association meets on the 

 same day, and the night session of the 

 Forestry Convention will be held under 

 its auspices. 



The program as previously arranged 

 will be carried out as closely as possi- 

 ble. The afternoon drive through the 

 planted forests of the Biltmore Estate 

 and the day's trip through Pisgah For- 

 est to see lumbering under proper for- 

 estry control as practiced by the Carr 

 Lumber Company, are still prominent 

 and attractive features of the conven- 

 tion. 



The courteous invitation of the 

 Champion Fiber Company to visit their 

 pulp mill at Canton is still open, and 

 no doubt many delegates will avail 

 themselves of this opportunity to see 

 one of the largest and most interesting 

 factories of its kind in the countrv. 



During the month of April, 1014, a 

 total of 206 acres of land within the 

 Apache National Forest, Arizona, were 

 listed with the Secretary of the Interior 

 and will shortly be opened to entry un- 

 der the Forest Homestead Act. The 

 lands thus listed were applied for indi- 

 vidually by two applicants, and each 

 one of these tracts was examined by a 



The recently appointed members of 

 the Forestry Committee of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association 

 are J. R. Williams, Jr., Chairman, care 

 of J. Randall Williams & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.; E. A. Selfridge, Jr., 

 Northwestern Redwood Co., Willitts, 

 Cal. ; J. V. Stimson, Huntingburg, Ind. : 

 E. N." Wheeler, Wheeler & Dusenbury, 

 Endeavor, Pa.; W. R. Butler, W. R. 

 Butler & Co., Boston. Mass. ; J. S. Gil- 

 lies, Gillies Brothers' Lumber Co., Brae- 

 side, Ont. ; J. B. White, Riordon Paper 



