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Canadian Forestrij Journal, June, 1917 



Timber Owners Place Over Million 



Acres in Care of Technical 



Forester 



A few years ago, Gifford Pinchot in addressing the Camp-Fire Club 

 of America said: "Forestry in the State of New York is flourishing 

 everywhere except in the woods." It looks as if the old order were 

 about to change. Professor A. B. Recknagel of the Department of 

 Forestry, at Cornell University, has been granted a year's leave of ab- 

 sence from his university duties in order to accept the position of For- 

 ester to the Empire State Forest Products Association; he will take up 

 his new duties on the first of July. He will establish headquarters for 

 the Association at Albany. The work which Professor Recknagel will 

 undertake marks a new departure in the practice of forestry by private 

 owners in the United States. The Empire State Forest Products As- 

 sociation is made up of prominent lumbermen and paper manufacturers 

 in New York; the members of the Association own upwards of one mil- 

 lion two hundred thousand acres of timberland in this state. The 

 Association, at its last annual meeting, decided to establish a rational 

 and constructive system of forestry for the handling of these lands. 



Canadian Foresters in British Camps 



A letter received from one of the 

 Staff Sergeants of the Canadian For- 

 estry Corps says, "All the forestry 

 battalions have been fused into a 

 Corps, and in addition constant re- 

 inforcements are being drafted into 

 it from the medically unfit of the 

 infantry. The Corps is at present 

 about five thousand strong, of whom 

 1500 are operating in France, and in- 

 creasing every day. There are about 

 twenty camps in England and Scot- 

 land. One Branch at Headquarters 

 is called the Forestry Branch and 

 this handles the technical forestry 

 work and also all lumber returns. 

 Captain Weir, a graduate of Ontario 

 Agricultural College, MfGill and Cor- 

 nell, is in charge, and Sergeant Brick- 

 er, a student from Toronto Forest 

 School, is his Assistant. Men in the 

 field were given the title of Forestry 

 Representatives and handled several 



camps each, sending in general for- 

 estry reports embracing silvical stud- 

 ies, soil studies, growth studies, etc., 

 as well as reports on progress, accom- 

 panied by maps. Several Toronto 

 men were on this work. Our rank 

 was the high and lofty one of full 

 private except Parker, who was a 

 sergeant before this work was started. 

 He has recently gone to France where 

 he will be associated with the lumber- 

 ing end of the work, I believe. At 

 present we are planning some new 

 work at the instigation of the British 

 Forestry authorities. A party is to 

 be sent out to visit all our camps 

 making volume and increment tables. 

 We are going to use the forms which 

 were used at Toronto University for 

 stem analysis and volume tables. 

 This is going to be very valuable ex- 

 perience for us and our time spent as 

 soldiers will not be wasted. Since 



