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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



FORESTRY NOTES. 



Wm. E, Colby, Editor. 

 Walter L. Huber, 

 U. S. Forest Service, Assistant Editor. 



Forest Fires A favorable public sentiment against forest fires has 

 IN California. grown steadily. It has been shown, however, that 

 the maximum efficiency has been obtained through the 

 efforts of the voluntary fire wardens. It is apparent that the fire situa- 

 tion can be successfully handled only through the maintenance of a paid 

 State patrol, and toward that end an effort will be made to secure the 

 necessary appropriation at the coming Legislature. — American Forestry. 



Forestry at the A Forestry Club has been organized at the Uni- 

 State University. versity of California for the purpose of securing 

 an appropriation from the Legislature for the cre- 

 ation of a forestry department. . . . The field for practical work and 

 observation in California is unsurpassed by other States. Conservative 

 forestry is being conducted on twenty national forests where the students 

 can work during the summer months. Their miUing, logging and other 

 practical work can be obtained upon the large holdings of the timber 

 companies within a comparatively short distance of the university 

 campus. . . . Every assistance should be given the members of the 

 Forestry Club in their endeavor to secure an appropriation to establish 

 a department of forestry at the University of California. — American 

 Forestry. 



Moving Picture On October ist, Mr. J. S. Dawley, general stage 

 OF Forest Fire. director of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and troupe ar- 

 rived at North Fork, California, and in co-operation 

 with, and under supervision of, officers of Sierra National Forest, took 

 sixty-five views of forest activities and forest-fire work. These views 

 were combined in a moving picture entitled "A Forest Fire and How It 

 Is Fought." This picture has been recently shown in all the large cities of 

 the United States and Europe. This is the first time that a moving 

 picture, showing in detail the many activities of a forest ranger, and 

 the work in connection with a real forest fire has ever been taken, and 

 because of the action in the picture it has been received very favorably. 

 The cause and effect and methods of fighting a forest fire have been 

 made clear to the thousands of persons who previously have had no 

 conception of this subject. Great credit is due Mr. Redington, forest 

 supervisor. Sierra National Forest, for his enthusiastic co-operation, 

 without which the views could not have been taken. 



