Forestry Notes 



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FORESTRY NOTES 



Wm. E. Colby, Editor 

 Walter L. Huber, Assistant Editor 



School of In compliance with a long-felt need, the Regents have 

 Forestry created a Department of Forestry at the University of 

 California at Berkeley. To head the newly established 

 department, they have secured Walter Mulford, now Professor of 

 Forestry in Cornell University. Professor Mulford is claimed to be 

 one of the best informed men in the United States on the subject of 

 forestry. 



To be associated with Professor Mulford, as Assistant Professor of 

 Forestry, the Regents have appointed Merritt B, Pratt. Professor 

 Pratt is at present Deputy Forest Supervisor in the United States 

 Forest Service, and has had wide and varied practical experience in 

 the scientific and practical administration of the forests of California. 

 — The California Alumni Weekly. 



Summer Vacations The number of persons who spend their sum- 

 IN National Forests mer vacations within the National Forests is 

 growing so rapidly, says the Forest Service, 

 that the question of providing suitable pasturage for their saddle and 

 pack animals is becoming a problem. Campers naturally seek the 

 spots where water is close at hand and where horse feed is abundant, 

 in the hope that their stock will not be tempted to steal away in the 

 night in search of more tempting pasturage. In order to provide such 

 spots the Forest Service must set aside limited areas from which sheep 

 and cattle are excluded. — American Forestry. 



Du Bois' System Coert du Bois, District Forester of the State of 

 OF Fire Protection California, has worked out a wonderful system 

 of forest fire protection in his territory. He 

 describes one part of his organization as follows : 



"On one of the heavily timbered forests in Northern California the 

 district rangers have perfected volunteer forest fire organizations from 

 among the residents of their districts — each volunteer company being 

 assigned a definite area within which it is responsible. For each com- 

 pany there is one chief who receives forty cents an hour fighting time, 

 one quartermaster and one packer, each paid thirty-five cents an hour, 

 and from fifteen to thirty firemen who are paid thirty cents. Any ad- 

 ditional men, not members of the volunteer crews, who are employed 

 on a fire, are paid twenty-five cents an hour. At the beginning of the 



