Investigative Projects in Forestry and Allied Subjects Conducted by National, State, and Provincial Governments, Schools of Forestry, Scientific Schools, and Private Interests in Canada, Newfoundland, and the Compiled by the Committee on American Forest Research, Society of American Foresters U. S. Department of Agriculture-Continued Tree Studies.. Types.... Investigations at the Forest Products Laboratory.. Mechanical and physical properties and structure of wood. Wood preservation... Laminated construction.. Pulp and paper.. Derived products.. Pathology..... Industrial investigations. Grazing investigations. Artificial reseeding.. Natural reseeding.. 196 197 199 199 209 212 214 215 218 219 221 221 223 Forage plants: distribution and economic importance on National Forests 226 Protection.. Methods of handling stock. Carrying capacity. Methods of developing stock watering places. Poisonous plants... Types.. Exhibits.. Economic investigations. Bureau of Plant Industry: Investigations in Forest Pathology. Blister rust control... Bureau of Entomology: Forest and Shade Tree Insect Investigations. Field investigations.. Laboratory investigations.. Research organizations within the States (State departments, universities, and private agencies). New England States: New Hampshire. State Forestry Department, Concord.. New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, Durham.. Vermont... 227 230 235 236 237 238 238 239 243 246 248 248 253 254 254 255 255 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Dept. of Forestry, Amherst.. Connecticut.... 258 New York State College of Agriculture, Dept. of Forestry. 265 Department of Conservation and Development, State Forester, Trenton.. 280 North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, State Forester, Chapel Hill.. 283 North Central States: Ohio....... 284 Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Dept. of Forestry, Wooster. Indiana..... 284 284 State Natural History Survey Division, State Forester, Urbana. 285 Dept. of Conservation, Superintendent of Forestry, New Orleans. Lake States: Michigan.... 286 287 Public Domain Commission, State Forester, Grayling... 287 287 289 290 University of Minnesota, Division of Forestry, St. Paul. Colorado Agricultural College, Department of Forestry, Ft. Collins. Arizona.. University of California, College of Agriculture, Division of Forestry, Berkeley..... University of California, Prof. W. L. Jepson, Berkeley. 297 297 298 300 INTRODUCTION Although forest research in North America is still very young, some distinct advance has already been made. Twenty years ago there were no foresters trained in American schools. To-day there are approximately 1500 trained foresters, graduates of technical schools of high standing, many of whom are devoting their efforts to forest research. The beginning of systematic forest research dates from the establishment of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., in 1909, of the Forest Products Laboratories of Canada at Montreal in 1915, and of the several forest experiment stations on the National Forests of the West, the first of which was established at Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1908. Since this beginning, the increase in the number of agencies engaged in forest research and in the scope and intensity of the studies undertaken has been a promising indication of the growing need for adequate information along these lines. Not including the Federal departments of Canada, Newfoundland, and the United States, there are now from 40 to 50 state, provincial, college, and corporate organizations, and individuals engaged in the study of problems in forestry and related subjects. Some 520 projects are now being conducted by various agencies in the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland. In view of the volume of work now being carried on, the Research Committee of the Society of American Foresters felt the need for some clearinghouse of information on the current investigative projects. This program represents, therefore, an attempt to bring together the projects on which forest investigators are engaged in North America. It is hoped that it may be a means of informing the different investigators of the work of each other and in this way help indirectly to avoid duplication of effort and give the encouragement that must come from the knowledge that there are others who are working within the same field. The Committee desires to express its appreciation of the hearty response to its requests for cooperation. To those of the contributors whose statements had to be revised in form or volume, and to any investigators who may have been overlooked by this Committee in its requests (it is realized that some such omissions may quite naturally have occurred in this first review of the field) it offers its apologies. It is further appreciated that for certain organizations the projects may not in all cases have been finally approved. They are included in the form reached.at the time of compilation. Furthermore, the programs of many organizations were affected by the war and the still in a more or less unsettled state. In future editions of the program any such omissions an any errors which may have crept into this issue may be corrected. To this end the Committee earnestly desires the fullest criticism of its initial work and solicits suggestions of every kind as to the continuation of the program and improvements which may be incorporated in it. The publication and distribution of this program was made possible only through the kindness of the National Research Council, to which the Committee acknowledges its gratitude. The Committee desires to acknowledge its obligation to Mr. Earl H. Frothingham, of the U. S. Forest Service, who performed practically the entire task of compilation. DOMINION OF CANADA DOMINION FORESTRY BRANCH R. H. CAMPBELL, Director of Forestry, Ottawa PETAWAWA FOREST EXPERIMENT STATION, Petawawa, Ontario 1. Forest survey. To obtain detailed information in regard to the various species and forest types, soil, site-classes, age classes and their distribution, quantity and quality of timber and reproduction, etc. Area examined 100 square miles. Work begun in August, 1917. completed 1919. Preliminary report submitted. Working plan to be prepared. Survey 2. Thinnings. Effects on remaining stand, individual trees, soil, and ground cover, of thinnings of different degrees and methods. Work begun in 1918. Studies on permanent sample plots in stands of jack pine and in white pine and red pine with intermingled white spruce, white birch, red maple, aspen, and other hardwoods now under |