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features to recommend it. There are in the National Forests many 

 private holdings which checker-board the Government ownership. This 

 exchange plan will enable the Government and also the private owners 

 to consolidate their forest holdings and thus administer and cut them 

 with greatest economy to all concerned. Such a plan of exchange will 

 enable the Government to gradually acquire title to all of the private 

 holdings in the National Forests and thus remove many of its trouble- 

 some fire dangers and increase the efficiency of its administration of the 

 forests. The cut-over lands will be more efficiently cared for by the 

 Government, with a view to promoting a new growth of timber, and the 

 stumpage they give in exchange will be cut in accordance with the most 

 approved methods and left in the best possible condition to insure a 

 second growth, the Government retaining the title to those lands also 

 and only exchanging the timber growing on them. 



The private owner is not ordinarily in any position to care for his 

 cut-over land and protect it from danger of fire, which is unusually 

 destructive to the new and small growth. The Government is in a 

 position to care for this land much more effectively than the private 

 owner,, who usually has not the same interest and concern for the 

 future of the forests. The Government can also impose reasonable 

 restrictions on the cutting of the uncut private lands to be later taken 

 over by the Government in exchange for stumpage, and thus receive this 

 cut-over land in the best possible condition, having future growth in 

 view. Before anything can be accomplished along these lines, Congres- 

 sional action will be necessary. Those favoring such action should write 

 the Forest Service, Washington, D. C., urging that this plan of ex- 

 change of stumpage for cut-over lands be investigated and the policy 

 urged upon Congress if found feasible and desirable from the Forest 

 Service standpoint. W. E. C. 



The Panama-Pacific Undoubtedly many members of Alpine Clubs 

 Exposition and kindred organizations will visit the 



World's Panama-Pacific Exposition to be held 

 in San Francisco in 1915. The Sierra Club desires to take this early 

 opportunity to invite such visitors to make the Sierra Club rooms, 402 

 Mills Building, San Francisco, their headquarters, A register will be 

 kept there so that mountaineers from abroad or the East may be able 

 to meet. Any who wish to visit Yosemite or other points of interest 

 in the Sierra Nevada will find at the Sierra Club rooms the most accu- 

 rate and reliable information, which will be freely placed at their 

 disposal. This Club also hopes to establish a camp in the Tuolumne 

 Meadows, the most central camp-ground in the Yosemite National Park. 

 This camp will be open during the summer season and is intended to 

 afford accomodations to our mountaineering brethren at cost. Publi- 

 cations of other alpine clubs will please copy the foregoing. W. E. C. 



