FOREST NOTES 



The Public Domain Commission of Michigan 

 has made arrangements with the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of the Interior to secure a herd of twenty- 

 five Elk for the State of Michigan. These will 

 be brought from the Yellowstone National Park 

 and placed on the Houghton Lake State 

 Forest, in Roscommon County. This Forest 

 affords an extensive range, and very favorable 

 conditions as to natural forage and shelter 

 for this species of deer. It is therefore expected 

 that these animals will do quite well here and 

 increase rapidly. Should the venture prove a 

 success, other of the larger State Forests in 

 both the Lower and Upper Peninsulas will 

 be stocked from the increase of the herd and 

 in time these places may become sources of 

 big game supply for the entire State. 



lines leading to the forests of the State, the 

 State Ranger School, the villages, cities, high 

 schools, farms, etc., of the State. 



The State Board of Forestry in Maryland is 

 preparing this winter a detailed report of the 

 annual lumber production in that State. This 

 estimate is being based on the cut of 1,100 

 timber operators in Maryland as sent in by 

 them to the Board, and will give the amount of 

 lumber and timber they are getting out annu- 

 ally in different products lumber, ties, piling, 

 poles, etc. These reports, combined with 

 those made of preceding years, will give an 

 accurate idea of the extent of the timber busi- 

 ness in Maryland. Later this information 

 will be combined with other data showing 

 how this material is utilized by the numerous 

 wood-working industries of the State, with its 

 value in the rough and finished states of 

 production. 



Winter weather has not prevented the carry- 

 ing out of work under the Roadside Tree Law, 

 and the Board of Forestry has a large force of 

 State Wardens in the field engaged in the 

 supervision of public tree work. Orders for 

 stock from the recently established State 

 Forest Nursery are being received for spring 

 planting. A large amount of reforestation 

 work was done a year ago, and this year, with 

 a well-stocked nursery supplying suitable 

 planting stock at cost, it is planned to make 

 an even better record in planting up the 

 State's waste lands. 



The New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse University has placed an order 

 for several models to be used in its exhibit 

 at the Panama Exposition. There will be 

 three relief map models of an area in the 

 Adirondacks including Whiteface Mountain. 

 The first will represent the area with its 

 original covering of virgin forest; the second 

 will show the same area cut over, burned and 

 eroded; and the third will show the area 

 reforested by plantings. 



A fourth model will depict the activities 

 of the State College of Forestry. It will be a 

 relief model of an imaginary area. In the 

 center will be the College of Forestry with 



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The New York State College of Forestry 

 has just moved its summer school equipment 

 from its property in the Catskills to the 

 Adirondacks. It has been decided to have the 

 next summer school in the Adirondacks and 

 of three months' duration. This will result in 

 some very valuable data being gathered 

 regarding the State forest lands in the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



B. F. Porter, a timber and lumber operator 

 of Eureka, California, recently felled a redwood 

 tree on his tract that equaled the record value 

 of any yet cut in California. It was 380 feet 

 high, 26 feet in diameter 7 feet from the 

 ground, 261 feet to the first limb, where the 

 diameter was 11 feet, and scaled over 344,000 

 feet of lumber. Fifty per cent, will sell at 

 $35, 30 per cent, at $18, and the remaining 

 refuse at $8. The total value is estimated at 

 more than $9,000. 



The Hammond Lumber Company is cruising 

 the immense timber holdings of the Metropol- 

 itan Redwood Lumber Company in the Hum- 

 boldt district, California. Some of the holdings 

 of this company are the finest in California, 

 there being single acres that will cruise 

 1,000,000 feet and 100-acre tracts that will 

 average 750,000 feet to the acre. 



Governor Whitman of New York in his 

 inaugural address puts himself on record as 

 being in favor of keeping the various divisions 

 of the conservation department separate. 

 He says: "The conservation department as at 

 present organized has three divisions : 



"First. A division of lands and forests; 



"Second. A division of inland waters, cover- 

 ing water supply, water storage, drainage, 

 navigation, etc.; 



"Third. A division of fish and game. 



"It is very important, in my opinion, that 

 the work of these three divisions should be 

 kept entirely separate and that each of these 

 divisions should have an expert administrative 

 head, who is specially qualified by training 

 and experience to do the work as it ought 

 to be done. The actual administration of 

 the work of each one of these divisions can be 

 properly done only by a man who is familiar 

 with the special line of work and has had 

 really sound training and experience along 

 these lines. For these reasons I favor three 

 separate bureaus or divisions in the department, 

 and I think that it is most important that the 

 law should specifically provide that the head 

 of each bureau or division should be a trained 

 expert." 



