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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



fornia who qualify this summer as National 

 Forest Aids. To become eligible to receive a 

 badge, the Scout is required to spend at least 

 ten days in a National Forest performing 

 useful service during the fire season under the 

 direction of Federal Forest Officers. At the 

 end of this period he has to pass an examina- 

 tion in elementary forestry. 



The first Scout to receive the badge was a 

 Mill Valley boy who worked in the Tahoe 

 Forest last summer under Forest Supervisor 

 R. L. P. Bigelow. He performed with credit 

 the duties assigned to him, being specially 

 complimented by Bigelow for his conduct at 

 the Crystal Peak fire, and passed the examina- 

 tions with a fair rating. 



The badge is of bronze with the Forest 

 Service pine tree in relief encircled by the 

 words "National Forest Aide." The District 

 Forester expects that a number of them will be 

 earned by the Boy Scouts next season. 



Each forest user on the Apache National 

 Forest has been provided with a circular 

 calling his attention to the danger of forest 

 fires during the hot summer season and asking 

 him to lend a helping hand to the Forest 

 Service in the endeavor to prevent fires. He 

 is asked to observe the following simple rules: 



Dig a pit or clear trash from your camp fire 

 and be sure it is out before you leave it. 



Be sure your match is out before you throw 

 it away. 



Throw your cigarette or cigar stubs or 

 knock out your pipe ashes where they cannot 

 start a fire. 



A little care is worth days of fire fighting. 



If you discover a fire and cannot go yourself 

 and put it out, will you please notify the nearest 

 Forest Officer? 



State Forester Chapin Jones, of Virginia, 

 recently appointed, is inaugurating a campaign 

 against fires in the woods, in which all citizens 

 are asked to join. The first step is to get 

 warning notices into the hands of people who 

 have timberland to protect or who wish to 

 put them up for the good of the cause. These 

 are now being distributed and may be had by 

 addressing the State Forester at Charlottes- 

 ville, Va. 



These notices are of three different kinds, 

 and are printed in large letters on heavy card- 

 board, for posting indoors in stores, post- 

 offices, blacksmithshops, etc., and on cloth for 

 posting outdoors, along the roads and paths in 

 the woods, etc., where anyone traveling 

 through the woods would see them. They 

 explain the State laws, which are strict, and 

 call upon all citizens to be careful not to start 

 a fire and to put out, if possible any that they 

 may find burning. 



The Conservation Committee of the New 

 York Constitutional Convention held its first 

 public hearing upon proposed amendments 



relating to the forests, fish, game, waters and 

 other natural resources of the State at Albany, 

 on May 18. The members of the committee 

 are Charles H. Dow of Jamestown, Chairman; 

 Edward M. Angell of Glen Falls, H. LeRoy 

 Austin of Catskill, George A. Blauvelt of 

 Monsey, George Clinton, Sr., of Buffalo, W. 

 Barlow Dunlap of Amsterdam, Olin H. 

 Landreth of Schenectady, Ferris J. Meigs of 

 Tupper Lake, Rush Rhees of Rochester, 

 Edward M. Smith of Watertown, James S. 

 Whipple of Salamanca, and Arthur J. Baldwin, 

 William P. Bannister, Timothy A. Leary, 

 Louis Marshall, Morgan J. O'Brien, and John 

 G. Saxe, of New York. 



The war tax of 1 cent on each letter and 

 post card mailed in Canada and the tax of 2 

 cents on each check and bill of exchange has 

 been cheerfully met and everyone is anxious 

 to help in every way possible. 



Last summer the New Brunswick Railway 

 Company removed all inflammable material 

 from a narrow strip bordering the rights-of- 

 way of the Transcontinental and Intercolonial 

 Railways through their wild lands. Largely 

 as a consequence of this, in spite of a dry 

 summer, fires were confined to an area of less 

 than 100 acres and only very few acres des- 

 troyed were burned by fires originating on the 

 railroads. The method employed was to pile 

 the debris on the right-of-way and burn it 

 there. Care was taken to avoid scorching trees 

 standing along the border of the woods. 



In the speech from the Throne at the opening 

 of the New Brunswick Legislature, announce- 

 ment was made that a new act to provide for a 

 complete and scientific survey of the seven 

 million acres of Crown Lands at a cost of 

 $400,000 would be introduced. It was an- 

 nounced that the survey would probably take 

 three or four years to complete and would 

 lead to a re-classification of the Crown Lands. 



The Committee appointed by timber limit 

 holders in the Upper Ottawa Valley to consider 

 the formation of a cooperative fire protective 

 association like those in the lower Ottawa and 

 St. Maurice Valleys decided that they were 

 too late to take action this year. Let us hope 

 that Providence will forgive their procrastina- 

 tion and care for them and protect their 

 timber this summer. 



The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway has 

 announced that contracts have been let and 

 other arrangements made for the installation 

 of crude oil burners on passenger locomotives 

 on the section between Prince Rupert, B. C, 

 and Jasper, Alta., a distance of 718 miles. It 

 is expected that this installation will be com- 

 plete by next June. Freight engines will 

 continue to burn coal for the present. 



