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same general description as that built in 1916, which is described in the 

 Sierra Club Bulletin of January, 1917. 



New Recreation Maps 



During the past year the Forest Service has issued new recreation maps 

 of the Angeles, California, Cleveland, Inyo and Mono National For- 

 ests, and a highway map of California showing the National forests. 

 These can be obtained free from the District Forester, U. S. Forest Ser- 

 vice, 114 Sansome Street, San Francisco. 



The Lumber Industry in California 



"Probably the most important point of contact between the pine lumber 

 industry in California and the Government in the present crisis is the 

 manufacture of box shooks. California is so situated that many of its 

 food products are marketed thousands of miles away from where they 

 are produced. In most cases wooden boxes are essential for proper 

 transportation. The National Food Administration is urging the most 

 complete utilization of food products, and the lumber industry is being 

 called upon to produce the box shooks. 1918 presents a problem that 

 cannot be fully appreciated at the present time — the volume of crop 

 production, demands upon the industry for men for the army, labor un- 

 rest, supply of cars for shipment, cost of raw materials and many other 

 factors." (Comment by C. Stowell Smith.) 



In spite of labor shortage, the cut of California timber was apparently 

 greater in 1917 than in 1916. Taking seven mills in the pine region as 

 an example, the season's cut in 1916 up to September i was 259 million 

 board feet; in 1917, up to September i, it was 270 million. 



The Diamond Match Company has recently undertaken to cut its tim- 

 ber conservatively in order to keep its lands productive for future op- 

 erations. Only trees above a certain diameter are cut, the smaller trees 

 being left to grow to larger sizes; all merchantable timber is utilized 

 well into the tops ; the slashings are systematically burned after the first 

 heavy rains and all dead snags on the logged lands are felled. A tim- 

 ber cruise of about 170,000 acres of timberland in Butte and Tehama 

 counties, owned by this company, was completed last summer by the 

 company's forest adviser, Frederick E. Olmsted. 



Several lumbermen owning timber in the Sierra made strong efforts 

 during the past summer to induce the Federal Government to make 

 large appropriations for controlling the ravages of pine beetles. 



California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association 



An important step in the development of the lumber industry of Cali- 

 fornia was taken on July i, 1917, when the scope of the California 



