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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



New Reserves Monterey and San Luis Obispo forest re- 



serves, which were created during the past 

 summer, will be manned at an early date. Otto Tortensen, 

 Ranger-in-Charge of the Monterey reserve, aims to have his 

 force at work on a trail from the Arroyo Seco River to the 

 Coast early in January. Mr. Tortensen will maintain headquar- 

 ters at Salinas. The San Luis Obispo reserve will be in charge 

 of Supervisor E. S. Mainwaring, with headquarters at San Luis 

 Obispo. The Monterey reserve has an area of 335,195 acres; 

 the San Luis Obispo reserve, 363,350 acres. 



Forest Service ^nder the caption "American Forestry Hon- 

 HoNORED ^^^^ Abroad," Press Bulletin No. 144 of the 



Forest Service announces that the Forest Ser- 

 vice of the United States Government is to become a member 

 of the International Association of Forest Experiment Stations. 

 Other countries represented in the association are Germany, 

 Austria, France, Italy, Russia, and Switzerland, the leading 

 countries in the practice of scientific forestry. The purpose of 

 the association is to standardize experimental work generally, 

 so that the methods of investigation in each country will be 

 uniform, and to collaborate in researches affecting two or more 

 of the countries interested. Americans will feel proud of the 

 rapid progress made in forestry here, which enables the Forest 

 Service to enter this association on equal terms with the European 

 countries through whose researches, conducted for many years, 

 a science of forestry has been built up. 



State and Feder^.l Legislature, approved 



r*^ ^ . ^ ^ March 10, 1903, the State of California 



Co-operation. ' . . 



made an appropriation of $7,500 each year 



for two successive years, to be used in forestry work in co-opera- 

 tion with the Forest Service, the Service to contribute an equal 

 sum. In the language of the act, the appropriation was made 

 for the purpose of "studying the forest resources of the State 

 and their proper conservation, and especially with a view of 

 establishing a proper State forest policy." This contract has 

 been renewed twice since the conclusion of the first two years 

 with an additional appropriation of $5,000 by both the State and 

 the Forest Service for each succeeding year. 



This co-operative work, which will be completed by the end 

 of the present fiscal year, has yielded, in the form of maps, re- 

 ports, and practical demonstrations, invaluable data on all phases 

 of California forestry. 



One important result of this work was the passage of the act 

 of March 18, 1905, which created a State Board of Forestry and 



