ae 
considered and several hundred dollars have been secured for preliminary work 
on this project. This epidemic has been in existence for the last ten years, 
and during this time over a billion board feet of lodgepole pine and yellow 
pine has been destroyed. 
Supervisor McHarg, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, and Mr. Evenden, as 
members of the Forestry and Lumbering Committee of the Coeur d'Alene Chamber 
of Commerce, arranged a program on Forest Frotection which was given at the 
regular Monday, April 21, meeting of the Chamber and at the Coeur d/Alene 
High School on Wednesday, April 23. Mr. Evenden spoke on forest protection 
and its importance to Coeur d'Alene. 
J. H. Patterson and Assistant are engaged in making the annual spring 
survey of the Rogue River area in southern Oregon. This area was laid out in 
1914 and has been cruised annually since that year. The infestation of 
. Dendroctonus brevicomis in the yellow pine on this area has been recorded each 
year end a large amount of important data on the cycles and fluctuations of 
these infestations has already been secured. Tais is one of the oldest in- 
_ vestigative projects of the Division in the West. It is planned to continue 
the study for some time in the future, and it is expected to result in impor- 
tant information on the behavior of these beetles that may lead to prediction 
of epidemics and more effective control. 
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J. M. Miller and H. L. Person spent the period from April 9 to 15 in 
an examination of forest areas in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern 
California. These surveys were requested and financed by the Forest Service, 
the County Forester of Los Angeles, and the owners of a number of private sum- 
mer resorts. The recreational development in this region has resulted ina 
high aesthetic value for all forest cover. The interest that has been mani- 
fested in protection against insect losses warrants the use of methods much 
more intensive than those which can be employed in the protection of timber 
values only. 
Mr. Person also made a survey of an experimental project on the Santa 
Barbara National Forest where the complete extermination of the Dendroctonus 
beetles is being attempted. 
STORED-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
EH. A. Back, Entomologist in Charge 

The field work of the bean weevil investigations in Stanislaus County, 
Calif., has been seriously affected by the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth 
disease, according to the reports of A. O. Larson. 


9 Dr. H. A. Back read a paver on the effect of cold storage on insects 
_ before the 13th Annual Convention of the American Association of Ice and Re- 
_ frigeration at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., in the latter part 
of March. 
