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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



FORESTRY NOTES. 



Fire-Warning Another and greater effort to interest 



Publicity Campaign. the public in the matter of care with 

 fires in the woods is being made by the 

 Forest Service this year and to that end the "annual publicity 

 campaign" inaugurated in 1910 is being greatly extended. This 

 year the campaign was started with a news item giving the facts 

 connected with the first fire. The story was sent to about three 

 hundred and fifty papers in the district. 



The names of ministers, automobile clubs, automobile acces- 

 sories dealers, gun clubs, dealers in sporting goods, women's 

 clubs, summer resorts, representative citizens, school teachers, 

 and country stores in and adjacent to the national forests have 

 been secured and letters written them. With the letters to 

 country stores, placards bearing "The Six Rules" were enclosed 

 and the storekeepers were requested to post them conspicuously 

 in the stores. With the other letters a supply of the cards bearing 

 "The Six Rules" on the one side and extracts from the State 

 fish and game laws on the other were enclosed for distribution 

 to the public. Requests for additional cards were invited. Postal 

 cards bearing "The Six Rules" were sent to postmasters in and 

 near the forests, with requests that they be posted conspicuously 

 in the offices. About three thousand of the small cards are being 

 sent to each County Clerk in the State for distribution to the 

 public with the hunting licenses sold. In all, 9,550 communica- 

 tions have been sent out and 40,400 cards distributed. Requests 

 for over 50,000 additional Fire Rule-Game Law cards are now in 

 the office and will be answered as soon as a new supply of the 

 cards can be obtained. 



Turpentine Experiments carried on in 1910 and 1911 on the 

 Experiments. Sierra National Forest and in 191 1 on the Lassen 

 National Forest indicate that a good grade of 

 turpentine can be distilled from the resin of western yellow pine. 

 The experiments are being continued on the Sierra (near North- 

 fork) for the purpose of determining the total length of the 

 season of resin flow, the effect upon yield of different heights of 

 streaks, the effect of chipping at intervals of three and five days 

 instead of seven days, the effect upon yield of shielding faces 

 from sun and wind with canvas aprons, the rate of flow between 

 chippings. It is planned to complete this work by August 15th. 

 Manufacturers of turpentine are greatly interested because of 

 the approaching shortage of resin from Southern pines. 



