The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-08-01
BUREAU OF
FORESTRY
What Is Being Accomplished by This
Bureau.
WORKING IN TWENTY STATES
The Field Force for the Present Sum-
mer Will Comprise 1865 Men, Who
Will Endeavor to Solve the Prob
lem of Forest Extenson-Appro-
priaton Is Increased.

On the first of July the bureau of
forestry of the United States depart
ment of Agriculture began it's work
for the season of 1902, and the bu-
reau is now operating in 20 states
The bureau has appointed 80 new
student assistants for this season,
the entire field force numbering 165
men The work includes, among other
things, the gathering of the neces-
sary data for several working plans,
a study of a number of well known
commercial trees, the examination of
farm woodlots, and a study of the
treeless areas with a view of devils
ing plans for forest extension.
The bureau of forestry begins the
new fiscal year of 1902-l905 with an
appropriation of 1921 $50. The amount
for the year just ended was $1S,44O.
This increased appropriation shows
how this work commends itself to
congress, and it makes possible a
much wider range of work. The
present seasons work is by far the
most varied and interesting yet I'M
dertaken by the bureau of forestry,
and is being carried on in Maine,
New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachu-
sets, New York. New Jersey, Mary
land, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Vir-
ginia North Carolina Michigan, Min
nesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Montana, Arizona and Cali
fornia. Later in the season it will be
extended to still other territories.
The field work necessary for a
working plan for the tract of the
Great Northern Paper company,
which was begun last field season, is
being continued now and will be fin
ished this year. 1t is being carried
on by two fully equipped parties,
each consisting of Is men. A work
ing plan is being made for the tract
of hardwoods of the Linville Improve
ment company lying around Grand
fathers mountain, in western North
Carolina. The bureau is also making
a careful study of the forest re
sources of OtsegO county, New York
with the purpose Of drawing up g
simple and direct manual of instruc
lions for the management of the pri
waite forest lands in that county. The
expenses of the field work are being
borne wholly by Mrs Alfred Corning
Clark, who is greatly interested il
forestry, and DESTROYS that the for
ests of the country shall be treated il
a practical manner
rTbTOTob thn pO-pDnTa tinn Of Mr.
Ring. forest commissioner of Maine
a study has been undertaken of tn
forest conditions of that state. Thi
is to include an investigation of tn
behavior of the spruce after lumber
ing, in order to draw up simple an
practical rules for Fastening the pro
ductiOn of a second crop upon lun
bered land. 1t entails also carefr
study of the fire problem and of tn
best means of fighting fire in thi
region. This investigation further il
cludes a consideration Of local 10
scales.
Much attention will be given du
ing the present season to the exam
nation of wood lots, in the manag
ment of which the assistance of tt
bureau has been requested TU
skilled men will be detailed for tn
work, and it is the intention of tt
bureau that it's agents shall visit a
wood lots for which applications ha'
been made
One of the most important and i
teresting undertakings of the bure;
of forestry during the present fie
season is a careful study of numb
of the most valuable American col
mercial trees. This will inclu
among others a study of the Adiro
dack balsam, in Franklin count
New York. Incident to the work
the bureau in connection with t
Chippewa Indian reservation in M
nesota careful study of red pine
in progress.
A study of the rate of growth
the sugar pine in California. viii
was begun last season, is now bel
continued. Last years work beg
in the northern part of the state a
in southern Oregon, and this seas
the examination will be continr
southwark with the idea of cover
the full commercial range of this
portant timber tree.
The southern hardwoods will
studied in Kentucky North Carol
and West Virginia This work
be mainly devoted to a considerat
of the oaks and the yellow pop
the idea being to study them in Il
commercial ranges, along with OF
trees which occur in mixture v
them.
On July the division of forest
tension was established in the
reau of forestry to take charge of
work heretofore done by the sec
of tree planting. The work of
new division will be to devise p
for increasing the forest area w