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Sierra Club Bulletin 



4. Distribution of plant and animal life in California. 



5. California trees. Marks for field identification. 



6. California wild flowers. Distinctive Sierran wild flowers. Exhibit: 



Herbarium specimens. 



7. Fish and fishing in California. 



8. Sierran birds. Marks for field identification. Exhibit: Common 



Sierran birds. 



9. Common mammals of California. Tracks and tracking. 

 ID. Preservation of trophies. Taxidermy; photography. 



The following names were omitted from our Service Record last year : 

 CoL. H. C. Benson, San Francisco. 



Lieut. Geo. H. Bardsley (teacher of electricity), Ft. Monroe, Va. 

 (Artillery). 



Mrs. Edna Adams Bardsley, Red Cross, Fort Monroe, Va. 

 Ernest Meiere, Sgt. Q. M. C, U. S. A., France. 

 Neill C. Wilson. 



Ernest Meiere, Sgt. Q. M. C, U. S. A., France. 



Elizabeth S. Hammond, interpreter for Base Hospital 36, U. S. A. 



Lloyd H. Berendsen, 2d.Lieut. Infantry, U. S. A., Machine Gun Firing 



Center, Camp Hancock, Ga. 

 John Bakewell, Jr., Red Cross, France. 



E. Dorothy Valantine, Army Nurse Corps, Base Hospital 120, France. 

 Fred Monhof, Eng. Corps, Naval Reserve, San Pedro. 



"Light-Burning" 



An exhaustive paper, entitled "Forest Fire Protection in California," by 

 S. B. Show, contains the following conclusions with respect to "light- 

 burning," or "Piute forestry." We are glad to publish these conclusions 

 because they represent the carefully considered attitude of the Forest 

 Service toward a prevention theory that in practice has proved very de- 

 structive to forest reproduction. Mr, Show thus summarizes his con- 

 clusions : 



1. The methods used by the Forest Service are proved by ten years 

 of actual practice, while those of the controlled burning are, it must be 

 said, largely theory, rather than practice. 



2. That in a comprehensive plan for the perpetuation of forests we 

 absolutely cannot disregard the value of reproduction. 



3. That the damage which is caused by the practice of light-burning, 

 or controlled burning, to merchantable timber is much greater than the 

 cost of preventing it. 



