Dec. 9, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Pinchot on the Adirondack Problem 
by S. and K., four only were bulls. I figure 
that our party saw twenty-three moose; sixteen 
cows and seven bulls. They had probably sepa¬ 
rated, as it cannot be that the cows outnumber 
the bulls in this ratio in a country where the 
Indians are killing the cows at all seasons of 
the year. It was probably the break of the 
luck that we saw so few bulls; still the Indians 
may be killing a lot of yearling bulls. The bull 
I shot had no cow with him. It is well past 
the rut when the season opens in Ontario and 
little calling is done. None of our Indians 
could call, but William said he had seen some 
Indians who could. The hunting is easier in 
Quebec, where the season opens a month 
earlier, as there they call a lot in their hunting. 
We had made arrangements with Bill Friday 
to come for us with his launch. He was to be 
at Whitefish Landing no later than 10 a. m. 
We waited until twelve and decided he was not 
going to keep his word, so we broke camp and 
started on a thirty -mile paddle to Temagami. 
We had gone seven miles on our way when we 
met the launch coming for us. We made a tow 
of our canoes, dumped our traps aboard and 
settled down for the long ride. 
The clouds had a cold and repelling look as 
night came on. The sun went down in a flare 
of red, and the stunted trees on the hilltops, 
silhouetted against a wintry sky, left a familiar 
picture of the Northland in our minds as dark¬ 
ness settled over Temagami. 
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F ORESTRY ill the State of New York is flour¬ 
ishing everywhere except in the woods. This 
is the essential fact in the present situation. 
The constitution forbids the practice of forestry 
on State lands, and scarcely a single tract of pri¬ 
vately owned forest, either in the Catskills or 
the Adirondacks, is to-day being cut under the 
rules of practical forestry. On the other hand, 
within the last ten years the destruction of 
forests by fire and bad logging has been greater 
than ever before. 
The Adirondack forest is one of the most 
precious possessions of the people of the State 
of New York. In conserving water flow and 
supplying timber, as a recreation ground, and as 
a vast sanitarium, it is indispensable to the 
growdh and welfare of the State. The purchase 
of the Adirondack Park is probably the best in¬ 
vestment the citizens of New York ever made. 
The Adirondack preserve consists of all State 
lands in the twelve Adirondack counties, and in¬ 
cludes about 3,300,000 acres. The Adirondack 
Park includes only the State lands within the 
so-called blue line, 1,500,000 acres in area, or 
about half the total area the blue line bounds. 
The other half is owned by lumber companies, 
associations, clubs and individuals. Substantially 
all of it is useless for any other purpose than 
to grow trees. The tree growth upon it, how¬ 
ever, renders so many and such important ser¬ 
vices that no similar forest area in the United 
States is of such high value to so many people. 
The object of this report, prepared on behalf 
of the National Conservation Association for 
the Camp-fire Club of America, is to make it 
easier for the people of New York to get the 
benefit of the Adirondack forests, and to pro¬ 
tect them against waste through mis-use and 
non-use. 
‘Report made by Hon. Gifford Pinchot to the Camp- 
fire Club of America. 
The first duty of the State toward the North 
Woods is to protect them from fire. Because 
of.previous neglect not less than a quarter of 
the whole area has been burnt. Of late, and 
especially since the great fire of 1908, good 
work by the State fire patrol has much reduced 
the number of fires. But it is not enough that 
there should merely be fewer fires in the Adi¬ 
rondacks. There should be no fires there at all. 
The principle of controlling a fire in a forest 
is precisely the same as that of controlling a 
fire in a city. The essential thing is to get the 
necessary fire fighters on the spot without the 
needless loss of a second. To this end moun¬ 
tain outlook stations have been established 
through the forest preserve and connected by 
telephone with villages and towns, so that fires 
may be promptly discovered and fire fighters 
concentrated upon them with the least possible 
delay. The foundation for an admirable or¬ 
ganization has been laid, but at least ten addi¬ 
tional stations are required. 
Every forest officer in the Adirondacks shou'd 
have a list of the most willing and efficient men 
for fire fighting in his locality and where they 
can be reached, so that in case of emergency he 
may make the promptest use of the law authoriz¬ 
ing him to call men out to fight fire. Organiza¬ 
tions of citizens should be formed to supple¬ 
ment the salaried force, and further definite 
arrangements should be made in advance for 
gathering men, equipment and supplies without 
loss of time when the need arises. 
The present cost of fire protection is six- 
tenths of one cent per acre per annum for a 
property whose average va'ue in timber alone 
is not less than ten dollars per acre. Stated in 
another way, there is but one fire patrolman on 
forest lands in the Adirondacks to 100000 acres. 
Lumbermen in some of the Western States are 
now spending nearly four cents an acre for fire 
a specially bad corner on tiie miette. 
From Old Indian Trails. 
