FORESTRY. 



It takes 30 years to grow a tree and 30 minutes to cut it down and destroy it. 



NEW FOREST RESERVES. 



Four new forest reserves have recently 

 been created by proclamation of President 

 Roosevelt. The entire area represents an 

 acreage of 245,920 in Utah and South Da- 

 kota. March 5th 2 reserves were set aside 

 in Butte county, South Dak., designated re- 

 spectively the Cave Hill Forest Reserve 

 and the Slim Buttes Forest Reserve. Cap- 

 tain Seth Bullock, superintendent of the 

 Black Hills Forest Reserve, has been placed 

 in charge. May 7th the Grantsville Forest 

 Reserve, in Utah, was established, with an 

 area of 68,960 acres, and May 26th an area 

 of 95,440 acres in the same State was re- 

 served under the name of the Salt Lake 

 Forest Reserves. In addition to these 

 changes in the area of the government's 

 forest reserves, several reductions and ad- 

 ditions have been made to existing re- 

 serves. The most important of these have 

 been : the Fish Lake Forest Reserve, 

 Utah, addition of 131,200 acres, making 

 the present area 199,040 acres ; Yellowstone 

 Forest Reserve, Wyoming and Montana, 

 reduction of 518,600 acres, making 7.810,- 

 600 acres ; Battlement Mesa Reserve, Colo- 

 rado, reduction, 45,440 acres, leaving the 

 present area 807,560 acres ; White River 

 Forest Reserve, Colo., reduction of 259,040 

 acres, leaving present area 970,880 acres. 

 The total combined area ot the forest re- 

 serves is at present about 62,700,000 acres. 



Mr. Charles McNaughton has re-entered 

 the Forest Service as a ranger on the Gila 

 River Forest Reserve. 



Head Ranger Charles H. Shinn has been 

 promoted to forest supervisor and placed 

 in immediate charge of the field work of the 

 Northern division of the Sierra Forest 

 Reserve. 



Forest Ranger Roger S. Baldwin, who 

 has been attending the Yale Forest School, 

 has resumed his duties on the Eastern di- 

 vision of the ^anta Barbara Forest Re- 

 serve. 



James H. Clarke, of Denver, Colorado, 

 has been appointed forest supervisor of the 

 Pike's Peak group of forest reserves of 

 Colorado, to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 death of former Supervisor Michelsen. 



James G. Thain, of Montana,- has been 

 appointed forest supervisor of the High- 

 wood Mountains Forest Reserve, Montana, 

 with headquarters at Highwood, Montana. 



Mr. A. M. Bliss, of Montana, has been ap- 

 pointed forest supervisor of the Southern 

 division of the Lewis and Clarke Forest 

 Reserve. 



Mr. Adolph Aschoff, who has been serv- 

 ing as first class ranger on the Northern 



division of the Cascade Range Forest Re- 

 serve, has been promoted to forest super- 

 visor of this division, to take effect June 1. 



Milton J. Anderson, of the same reserve, 

 has been promoted to first class ranger. 



Mr. Charles A. Ballinger has been ap- 

 pointed forest ranger, to serve on the Cave 

 Hills Forest Reserve in South Dakota, 

 under Supt. Seth Bullock. 



Forest Ranger L. T. Mazzanovich has 

 been transferred from the Yellowstone Re- 

 serve, Wyoming, to the High River Forest 

 Reserve in Montana. 



Special Forest Supervisor A. A. Ander- 

 son, who is in charge of the Yellowstone 

 Forest Reserve, has returned to Wyoming 

 to engage in active field duties. 



Forest Ranger G. B. Coleman, who has 

 been acting as officer in charge of the West- 

 ern division of the Washington Forest Re- 

 serve, has been promoted to forest super- 

 visor of this division,' to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the resignation of Mr. R. S. 

 Lambert. 



Forest Ranger George W. Millham, who 

 has been employed as forest ranger on the 

 Eastern division of the Washington For- 

 est Reserve for the past 4 years and re- 

 cently acting as officer in charge thereof, 

 has been promoted to forest supervisor, to 

 fill the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Forest Supervisor P. H. Farley. 



Mr. H. D. Langille has been reinstated 

 forest inspector, and is now in the field. 



Mr. George H. Barney has been appoint- 

 ed forest superintendent of the recently 

 created Aquaris Forest Reserve of Utah, 

 with headquarters at Escalante. 



Samuel S. Terrel has been appointed 

 forest supervisor ot the Baker City Forest 

 Reserve in Oregon. 



NEW COURSE IN YALE. 



This fall there is inaugurated at Yale a 

 new branch of instruction, which is the first 

 course of its kind ever given in an Amer- 

 ican university. It consists chiefly of prac- 

 tical instruction in economical transporta- 

 tion of outfits and supplies on streams, 

 woods and mountains, including the com- 

 position and packing of outfits for large for- 

 estry parties. Every student will be given 

 instruction and practice in the handling of 

 canoes in all sorts of conditions, particu- 

 larly in poling and suggling and running 

 rough water. 



Last spring the school was fortunate 

 enough to secure the services of Mr. Henry 

 Daly, chief packmaster of the United States 



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