FOREST NOTES 



In the effort to prolong until 192(> 

 the operation of the Weeks law for 

 the acquisition of forest lands and 

 cooperation with states in fire protec- 

 tion work Representative Sells, of 

 Tennessee, has introduced a bill in the 

 House. Its chief provision is as fol- 

 lows: 



''There is hereby appropriated for 

 the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1916, 

 the sum of $3,000,000 and for each 

 fiscal year thereafter a sum not to ex- 

 ceed $4,000,000, for use in the exam- 

 ination, survey, and acquirement of 

 lands located on the headwaters of 

 navigable streams, or those which are 

 being or may be developed for naviga- 

 ble purposes, provided, that the provi- 

 sions of this section shall expire by 

 limitation on the thirtieth day of Tune, 

 1926." 



At a recent meeting of the Forest 

 Products Exposition Company it was 

 decided that another large exposition 

 should not be held in Chicago or New 

 York during the coming year, because 

 of the complications created by the San 

 Francisco Exposition, and for other 

 reasons, but it was recommended that 

 plans for the holding of the same in 

 the year 1916 be inaugurated as early 

 as practicable. 



R. D. Maddox on the first of Sep- 

 tember took charge of the new for- 

 estry department of Tennessee which 

 is under the direction of the State Geo- 

 logical Department. Mr. Maddox will 

 study the forest conditions of the 

 state and advise the lumbermen and 

 other owners of timber land as to the 

 management of their timber land. He 

 will also study the problem of the rec- 

 lamation of the gullied lands of East 

 Tennessee. 



Mr. Maddox is a native of Lincoln 

 County, Tennessee, a graduate of the 

 Yale School of Forestry, was for sev- 

 eral years a member of the Bureau of 

 Forestry of New Hampshire and was 

 last year in the Department of For- 

 estry at the State College of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



The firm of Fisher & Bryant, con- 

 sulting engineers, has been dissolved, 

 and the business has been taken over 

 by George T. Carlisle, Jr., with head- 

 quarters at 386 Hyde Par,k Ave., 

 Roslindale, Mass., a well-known for- 

 ester. Mr. E. S. Bryant, one of the 

 members of the former firm, is now 

 with the Forest Service and is sta- 

 tioned at Washington, D. C. 



As a part of a systematic campaign 

 for forest fire protection which the for- 

 est branch is conducting in British Co- 

 lumbia under the direction of H. R. 

 MacMullen, chief forester, 1,000 pocket 

 whetstones are being distributed among 

 the boy scouts of British Columbia. On 

 the reverse side of the whetstone is 

 the inscription : "Build Camp Fires in 

 Safe Places. When You Leave Put 

 Them Out. Boy Scouts be Prepared. 

 Help Protect Our Forests." Altogether 

 more than 50,000 circulars, posters, pic- 

 tures, pocket whetstones, etc., have 

 been distributed all over the Province 

 to lumbermen, woodsmen of all kinds, 

 newspapers, banks, hotels, stores, 

 clergymen, school children, etc., and 

 the response has been most gratifying. 



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