Forestry Notes. 



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FORESTRY NOTES. 



Edited by Professor WnxiAM R. Dudley. 



District Examination 

 OF Boundaries. 



Through the establishment of six dis- 

 trict headquarters in the West, the work 

 of the Forest Service has advanced so far 



that it is now possible to undertake a thorough-going examination 

 of National forest boundaries and an inquiry into the character 

 of any interior areas which may appear to be not suitable for 

 National forest purposes. In a letter to the district forester in 

 this city, Forester Pinchot says : 



over of all National forest boundaries during the present field 

 season. The work which you have been constantly doing in this 

 direction is along the right lines, but the plan adopted calls for 

 more concentrated effort in this work throughout the Service 

 during the coming summer. With the field force at your com- 

 mand and your close knowledge of local conditions and of the 

 National forest officers, you can so organize this effort in your 

 district as to insure a thorough going over of your part of the 

 60,000 miles of National forest boundaries by competent men, 

 whose reports as to the character of the land within and without 

 the forests and whose recommendations as to lands which should 

 be excluded or included, checked by the information already pos- 

 sessed by the Forest Service, can be relied on. 



"To do this work in one summer will make severe demands 

 on you, but it is not beyond the capacity of the Service as now 

 organized. Please give it your best efforts until the work is 

 completed, and bear in mind especially that the quality of the 

 work must be unimpeachable. 



"This work should all be completed by the close of the present 

 field season, and each district forester should at that time be able 

 to vouch for the correctness of the proposed boundaries of his 

 forests. If, however, there are changes recommended by exam- 

 iners which you feel are questionable, such cases may go over 

 for checking until the next field season, in order that no mistakes 

 may be made. Possible additions should be noted as carefully 

 in the six States where congressional action is necessary to 

 create additions to forests as elsewhere. 



"As you know, the policy of the Service has always been to 

 exclude from the boundaries of a National forest all agricultural 



Letter from 

 Forester Pinchot. 



"Plans formulated here last winter and 

 approved by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 call for a systematic and complete going 



