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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



FORESTRY NOTES. 



Edited by G. B. Lull. 



M. Smith, Jr., Cornell, '04, who has been in 

 Forestry Work employ of the Federal Forest Service dur- 



IN California. ^^^^ ^^^^^ years, has resigned to accept 



an appointment as Assistant State Forester of California. Mr. 

 Smith assumed his new duties on May ist. Mr. Smith secured 

 his technical training at Cornell University. The position was 

 made vacant by the resignation of Raymond Tyler, who resumed 

 work for the Forest Service after a furlough of one year. 



State Forestry work in California is showing increased activity 

 with the opening of the dry season. The State Forester is busily 

 engaged in securing the financial co-operation of county boards 

 of supervisors in an attempt to prevent and extinguish forest 

 fires. Last year eleven counties, mainly in the southern part of 

 the State, appropriated sums for this purpose ranging from $250 

 to $1,500 per county. Although the fire season is only just 

 opening, two new counties in the northern part of the State, which 

 has always been considered as a region indifferent to forestry, 

 have been secured. These are Lake and Mendocino, which have 

 appropriated $500 each. It is hoped that before the close of the 

 present dry season many more counties in the northern part of 

 the State will be won over. 



Associations of stockmen and irrigationists which have always 

 been interested in preventing forest fires are exhibiting unusual 

 interest this spring. The State Forester is co-operating with 

 many powerful organizations of this kind, all of which are pay- 

 ing the salaries and expenses of the patrolmen who have been 

 appointed fire wardens. Several lumber companies are also show- 

 ing gratifying interest. 



The planting season in California has ended. During the past 

 winter the State Forester has co-operated with the Union Lum- 

 ber Company, Fort Bragg, which is one of the largest owners 

 of redwood timber on the coast, in furnishing a planting plan 

 for the interplanting of eucalyptus with redwood sprouts on land 

 cut over by this company. The redwood sprouts are of varying 

 ages, but in most cases stand too far apart to produce merchant- 

 able trees. The object of interplanting with eucalyptus is to force 



