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of four and a half billion board feet, and no less remarkable, to 

 my mind, is the adaption of house building practice and of the 

 industries of Germany to the needs of its forestry so that nothing 

 is wasted. It would seem that, in the course of centuries of tree 

 crops, the foresters and architects had gotten together to agree 

 on the best way to use all the wood that is grown on the soil. — 

 American Forestry, January, 1912. 



Five States Unite One hundred and forty of the leading 

 TO Save Forests. loggers, lumber manufacturers and forest 



conservation experts of Montana, Idaho, 

 Oregon, Washington and California met at Portland, Oregon, 

 early in December to attend the forest-fire conference of the 

 Western Forestry and Conservation Association. The best 

 methods of forest-fire protection, conservation of the forests and 

 reforestation formed the central thought of the convention. 



After two days devoted to hearing many excellent addresses 

 and spirited and valuable discussions the convention adopted 

 resolutions urging co-operation by Federal and State govern- 

 ments and local forestry and conservation associations for the 

 conservation of forests of the Pacific Coast and Pacific North- 

 west, through proper and adequate means of prevention of forest 

 fires, and urging each forested county to contribute its share of 

 the expense of fire patrol and fire-fighting. Appreciation was also 

 expressed of the Federal Forest Fire Service. — American Forestry, 

 January, 1912. 



First Purchase The first purchase of land under the 



UNDER Weeks Law. Weeks law, authorizing the creation of 

 the Appalachian Forest Reserve, was 

 authorized at a meeting of the National Forest Reservation Com- 

 mittee in the office of Secretary of War Stimson, chairman of 

 the commission, on December 9th. Ten tracts of mountain land, 

 aggregating 18,500 acres in McDowell County, North Carolina, 

 were decided upon by the committee for purchase. — American 

 Forestry, January, 1912. 



Municipal San Diego is perhaps the first of American cities 

 Forestry. to inaugurate a great forestry enterprise in the 

 expectation of speedily decreasing the rate of 

 taxation and possibly of ultimately reheving the citizens of all 

 payment of taxes for the support of the city government. The 

 city owns seven thousand acres of land, which up to the present 

 time has been unproductive. Forty thousand seedlings of the 

 eucalyptus tree have been set out. The city officials expect when 



