FOREST NOTES 



673 



The largest tract of California pine ever 

 offered by the Government has been purchased 

 by the Pelican Bay Lumber Company, of 

 Klamath Falls. Its bid of $3 a thousand for 

 the first unit of 85,000,000 feet on Four Mile 

 Creek and $3.25 for the pine in the second 

 unit of 297,000,000 on the Bear Creek water 

 shed was found to be the highest when the 

 bids were opened in Portland, Ore., April 10. 



Arrangements have just been completed 

 between the authorities of the public parks 

 and public schools of the City of Binghamton, 

 New York, and The New York State College 

 of Forestry at Syracuse University for the 

 making of a complete shade tree census of 

 Binghamton. The work is outlined and the 

 necessary material and instructions are fur- 

 nished by The New York State College of 

 Forestry in such a way as to make the field 

 work of distinct educational value to the 

 pupils in the public high schools. The in- 

 formation gathered will be used in the pre- 

 paration of a shade tree map for Binghamton. 



The State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 will cooperate during the coming spring with 

 the State Education Department at Albany 

 and the High Schools of the State in the 



development of various school forests and a 

 Forest Day. This cooperation was furthered 

 by means of a bulletin entitled, "The Planting 

 of Forest Trees by the Public Schools of the 

 State," a copy of this bulletin was sent to each 

 High School in the State. Arrangements have 

 already been completed with fourteen High 

 Schools in the State in the matter of starting 

 a school forest during the coming spring and 

 each one of these schools will plant from 1,000 

 to 5,000 trees. 



Secretary Lane has approved the plan to 

 open Yellowstone National Park to auto- 

 mobiles this summer under regulations 

 which will later be prescribed, and has 

 fixed August 1 as the date for their admis- 

 sion. This is the only national park which 

 automobilists have not hitherto been al- 

 lowed to use. In 1913 the Interior Depart- 

 ment threw open Yosemite National Park 

 to motorists, under careful regulations, and 

 it has resulted in a very much wider use 

 of that park. 



Mr. James A. Conners, of the James W. 

 Sewall office, has been appointed City Engineer 

 of Old Town, Maine. 



BOOK RECEIVED 



The Log of a Timber Cruiser, by William 

 Pinkney Lawson, $1.50. (Duffield & Co., 

 New York.) 



Mr. Lawson was formerly an Assistant Forest 

 Ranger in the United States Forest Service and 

 in this book, which has thirty-two pages of 

 illustrations, he gives an accurate and vivid 

 account of the field work of the United States 

 Forest Service. He not only tells of the 

 adventures of an actual cruising party in the 

 Gila National Forest, but gives also an in- 



tensely interesting description of Forest 

 Service field work; and of what it means to be 

 a forester of his difficulties, triumphs, pleasure 

 and satisfactions. The book is full of the 

 best kind of out-of-door spirit, and the ex- 

 periences of the cruising party are described 

 with a humor and understanding that will 

 make the book fascinating to those who now 

 know the Forest Service only as a name, and 

 at the same time it is an intimate record for all 

 Forest Service men. 



Chestnut Quarantine 



The chestnut bark disease has become so serious that in the opinion of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture it is desirable to quarantine New England, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, and 

 Nebraska, or such portions thereof as may be found to be essential. A public hearing on this 

 question will be held in Washington at 10 o'clock on May 18th. The proposed quarantine will 

 restrict the movement from this territory of chestnut nursery stock and chestnut lumber with 

 the bark on. 



