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AUGUST, 1914 
Monterey Pine 
The United States Forest Service issued a recent bulletin 
founded upon information derived from the Journal of Agri- 
culture of New Zealand which creates a great deal of surprise 
amongst the Foresters of this country. The Journal makes the 
statement that “Monterey pine is by far the most valuable and 
profitable timber tree that can be planted in New Zealand.” 
While this pine is well known in Southern California and while 
it has a comparatively rapid growth, Foresters have regarded 
it as practically valueless for timber, although it has been fre- 
quently planted to serve as a wind shield for orange groves. 
The bulletin says: “The reports of its behavior in New Zea- 
land, however, seem to make a further investigation of its value 
in this country well worth while. In view of the extraordinarily 
rapid growth which the tree has made in their country, New 
Zealanders have given it the common name of ‘remarkable pine,’ 
and from the figures reported by the New Zealand department 
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in New Zealand 
of agriculture, industry, and commerce, this name seems to be 
well merited. The claims for Monterey pine are based on the 
phenomenal growth which it has made in plantations and the 
many uses to which the wood seems adapted. 
“In one plantation, for example, in which the trees varied from 
26 to 29 years old, one tree gave a yield of 1,400 board feet of 
saw timber and the average yield of the plantation was approxi- 
mately 100,000 board feet for each acre. White pine, the tree 
best adapted to forest management in the northeastern United 
States, will scarcely yield more than 20,000 board feet per acre 
at this age. Loblolly pine, the most rapid-growing pine of the 
southeast, makes not more than 16,000 board feet per acre in 
equal length of time. Another 27-year-old plantation of Mon- 
terey pine in New Zealand yielded 75,000 board feet of saw 
timber and 60 cords of fire wood per acre, yet both of these 
plantations were on pure sand not suitable for farming pur- 
poses.” 
EDITORIAL 
National Park Progress 
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j Nearly 17,000 acres have just been added by act of Congress to 
the Caribou National Forest, Idaho. This is one of the first of 
{ such additions through Congressional action, and is the largest so 
! far made by direct legislation. Those who have followed the 
national forest movement in this country will recall that most of 
the forests have been created through Presidential proclamation, 
; which set aside, for timber growing or for water protection, certain 
■j areas of the public domain. In March, 1907, however, Congress 
passed a law that no further additions should be made to the 
i national forest areas in the states of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, 
Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, except through Congressional 
action. Since July, 1909. residents of the city of Montpelier, 
Idaho, have been petitioning to have this 17,000 acres added to 
the Caribou National Forest, because the area includes the water- 
shed of the stream which furnishes the city’s water supply. Not 
being within a national forest, the tract was given over to un- 
regulated grazing and other usages which resulted in stream pol- 
lution and became a serious menace to health. The citizens of 
Montpelier, at several times subsequent to their first efforts in 
1909, renewed their petition, and the act just passed represents 
the successful outcome of their efforts. 
Soil Fertility and Forest Fires 
A definite relation between the amount of humus, or vegetable 
j matter in the soil, and its crop-producing power as shown by 
; yields of corn, is given in figures just issued by the Department 
| of Agriculture. The department, therefore, advocates the use of 
i various methods to introduce the required humus into the soil, 
j Experts of the forest service state that the soils of the whole 
country, and particularly of the South, have lost, and are losing, 
I immense amounts of this source of soil fertility through forest 
| fires which apparently do little immediate damage, but rob the 
soil of accumulations of humus. In many parts of the South 
land is being cleared for farming, and where such forest land 
has not been burned there is a large percentage of vegetable mat- 
ter, which provides considerable fertility and a good texture. 
Moreover, this soil has a greater capacity to absorb and retain 
moisture, and thus is less likely to be washed and gullied under 
heavy rains. For these reasons, leaving out of account the dam- 
age to standing timber, the department's authorities are agreed that 
fire should be rigidly kept out of woodlands. 
Editorial Notes 
The annual capacity of the forest nurseries of the Government 
is about twenty-five million young trees. 
Cornell University recently dedicated a forestry building in 
connection with the State College of Agriculture. 
The forest service has been requested to co-operate with the port 
authorities of Coos Bay, Washington, in planting to control shift- 
ing sand dunes. 
The agricultural experiment station at Pullman, Washington, is 
establishing an aboretum in which it is proposed to grow a group 
of each of the important timber trees of the temperate zone. 
Students of the Oregon Agricultural College are working at the 
forest nursery on the Siuslaw forest. The arrangement is said 
to be mutually satisfactory, since the students gain experience in 
forest nursery practice and their assistance lowers the cost of 
nursery work. 
The city of Tacoma, Wash., has entered into a co-operative 
agreement with the forest service for the protection of the source 
of water supply, the watershed of the Green River, which lies 
within the Rainier National Forest. The two agencies, working 
together, will protect this stream from the results of forest de- 
struction by fire or by other agencies. 
The New York State forest nurseries have a capacity of 
twenty-eight million young trees a year. 
Approximately 750 acres on the Oregon National Forest were 
planted with young trees this spring. 
