FOREST NOTES 535 



est standard of efficiency in the work the University is to pay the expenses of 



may be secured and maintained. For- the work until the neeting of the next 



ester DuBois has had particular success Assembly, in 1916, is expected to make 



in forest fire work, and whatever con- an announcement of the appointment at 



elusions he draws as a result of his wide almost any time. The man who takes 



experience are of marked value. the place will find the majority of the 



people of the State eager to learn how 



There has been much in the news- to care for their woodlots and forested 



papers of late about the volcanic activ- lands, and it is generally expected that 



ity of Mt. Lassen, in California. For- he wil1 ma ke such a good showing, 



est Service officials, however, who are ^ or there is the opportunity to do so, 



on the ground, are reported by news- tnat tne citizens will insist upon their 



papers as saying that the disturbance legislators, two years hence, providing 



is due to a geyser and is not volcanic. a substantial appropriation for carrying 



No smoke is ascending, but the steam on tne work, 

 forces upwards a large quantity of 



light-blue ashes and these have been During the spring of this year 867 



scattered over portions of the country to acr es of the area known as the Roubaix 



a distance of twenty miles. Burn, in the Black Hills National For^- 



est, were reforested by direct seeding. 



This season's reforestation work on In addition, 15,000 yellow pine and 5,000 



the Black Hills National Forest in Douglas fir seedlings were planted. 

 South Dakota covered an area of 867 This year's work marks the tenth 



acres by direct seeding of yellow pine, consecutive year this reforestation work 



This is the tenth consecutive year that n . as b een done on the Black Hills Na- 



work of this character has been done tional Forest. According to Forest 



and a total area of over 6,000 acres has Supervisor Kelleter, some of the earliest 



now been covered. The results have successful work done by the Forest 



been uniformly successful and pros- Service was done on the Black Hills 



pects for the establishment of a good National Forest, and at the present time 



forest cover on the Roubaix burn are a ve ry good stand of thrifty trees of 



very good. g od size is to be found on the oldest 



In addition to the direct seeding 15 - areas ' U P to the present time a little 



000 two-year-old yellow pine and 5,000 ? ve ^. 6 ' 000 acres have been reforested 

 Douglas fir seedlings were planted. seeding. 



Ralph M. Hosmer, who for several Members of the North Carolina State 



years has been director of forestry in Forestry Association and the Appa- 



Hawaii, has accepted the offer made to lacm an Park Association held a joint 



him by Cornell University to take me etmg at Asheville, N. C., on June 10 



charge 'of the forestry department there and enthusiastically discussed forest 



in place of Prof. Walter L Mulford c o ndl tions in North Carolina, and also 



who becomes the head of the depart- , Progress be mg made in securing an 



ment of forestry at the University of PP alac h ian Park Dr. Joseph Hyde 



California at Berkeley Cal , att ' btate S^ogist, presided and 



:nere were several excellent addresses. 



A , ., . ~ Mrs. William J. Cocke, of Asheville, 

 At this writing a State forester for told how interested the women of the 

 Virginia has not yet been selected. The city are in the effort to conserve the 

 new law went into effect on June 1. forests of the State; State Forester 

 Several well-known foresters have been Barton of Kentucky spoke about con- 

 mentioned for the place and Dr. Alder- ditions in his State, and a very sound 

 man, dean of the University of Vir- and practical address on the relation of 

 gmia at Charlottesville, where the State the lumbermen to forestry was made 

 forestry department will be located, as by W. B. Townsend, of Townsend 



