Mr. K. C. Manning, who has Ijceii eir.- 

 ]>loyo<l in conneftion with the Canailian 

 I'aiitic Hailway I'oiiipany 's Department of 

 Natural Kesourees, has been appointed to 

 the jio^ition of forest assistant in conneition 

 with the Clearwater Forest Reserve, with 

 ht'ail<niarters at Rofky Mountain House, 

 AllxTta. 



Mr. K. \avasour, of the I'niversuv of 

 New BrunswicK Forest Sfhool, has been 

 appointed to the position of forest assistant 

 in conneftion with the Ponupine ami Pas- 

 quia Forest Reserve, with headquarters at 

 Hudson Bav .Junction. 



The following are the officers of the 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers, 

 elected to serve for three years: President, 

 Clyde Leavitt of Ottawa. Forester to the 

 Dominion Conservation Commission and 

 • hief Fire Inspector for the Dominion Rail- 

 ^^ay Commission; Vice-President, H. R. 

 Mai-Millan, Chief Forester of British Colum- 

 bia: Secretary-Treasurer, Ellwood Wilson. 

 Forester to the Laurentide Company, Ltd. 



Fon-t Assistant L. C. Tilt has been ap- 

 pointed to the Manitoba Inspection Office 

 ;it Wlinijieg. 



'•A Woodsman of the West" is a highly 

 entertaining volume from the pen of Mr. 

 ^[. Allerdale Grainger, of the British Colum- 

 bia Forest Service. 



Messrs. G. D. McKay and Arnold Hans- 

 sen have l)een elected active members ami 

 Mr. li. K. Ayers an associate member of the 

 Canadian .Society of Forest Engineers. 



The Third and P'ourth Year students of 

 the Faiulty of Forestry. I'nivers-ity of To- 

 ronto, to the number of thirteen, spent a 

 week of practice work at the Provincial 

 nurseries at St. Williams, as a j»art of their 



cour>e in Silviculture. The work consists 

 in getting practically familiar with the 

 growing and handling of plant stock, set- 

 ting out plantations with different tools aixl 

 learning to appreciate their rtdative value. 

 Each student is given a chance to perform 

 all the manipulations from preparing and 

 mowing >eed lieds, trans|)laiiting seedlings in 

 nursery rows, and planting into the field 

 or wooil.«. 



It is expected that the graduating class 

 will comprise nine names. Out of the fifty 

 registrations at the beginning of the aca- 

 demic year only forty-two held out to the 

 end, a number enlisting for the war and 

 a few dro])ping out for other reasons. 



Altogether, as far as known, some eigh- 

 teen graduates and undergraduates of the 

 Faculty have enlisted, of \\hom six were 

 registered at he beginning of the session. 



Apj>arently. the market for foresters has 

 also sufiered by the war like other employ- 

 ment, not all grailuates securing places, as 

 has lieen hitherto the rule, and only a few- 

 students of the lower years sei-uring '■um- 

 mer employment in the l-^orestry jJranch. 



Dr. Fernow expects to join Mr. U. II. 

 Cam]>bell. Director of Forestry, in making 

 an inspection tour this summer over the 

 federal forest reservations with a view of 

 advising as to their han lling fro:n the fores- 

 try point of view. 



A funall railroad operating an nilbiirnivfj 

 locomotive on the Tahne national forest, 

 California, had a brealdoun during last 

 summer and burned uooa instead of oil for 

 one da;/. On this dai/ fifteen fires started 

 along the right of waif. During the preced- 

 ing fiear, only one fire occurred near the 

 railroad and it was not tliought that the 

 I ngine was responsible for that one. 



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