22 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



at which Governor Glenn of North Carolina headed the petitioners, and New 

 Hiinipshire had Governor McLane as its spokesman, together with the sec- 

 retary of state, council and members of the legislature and officers of the 

 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Both the Governor and 

 Mr. Harvey N. Shepard of the Appalachian Club, spoke eloquently iu its 

 favor. The committee reported the bill favorably to the House, but it was 

 held up by the Speaker until the House adjourned. Since then another modi- 

 fled bill has twice pas.sed the House and is slated to be taken up by the Senate 

 iif the coming session.* 



In 1!)0:{, through the joint eti'orts of Philip W. Ayres, for his society, 

 and the commission, which then consisted of Henry O. Kent, George E. Bales, 

 Marshall C. Wentworth and George H. Moses, an appropriation of five 

 thousaud dollars was obtained for a forest examination of the White Moun- 

 tain region and the completion of the forest map which was commenced in 

 1893. This examination was prosecuted during the same year by Mr. Alfred 

 K. Chittenden of the United States Forest Service, who made a most excellent 

 aud exhaustive report on the character of the more important trees and of the 

 conditions necessary to their successful reproduction. His study of the 

 lumber and pulp industries, of the farmers' woodlot, of forest planting, and his 

 lecommendatious thereon, proved to be a classic of complete and wise advice, 

 and laid down the fundamental lines along which all of the subsequent 

 progress has been made. In conjunction with his work a study was made by 

 N. C. Grover aud H. K. Barrows of the United States Geological Survey of the 

 hydrography of the White i^Iountain region. This investigation began the 

 compilation of many tables on stream flow but was abandoned because of 

 the time necessary to secure suflicient data. Owing to the cutting off of the 

 appropriation for the purpose the work of stream measurements was stopped 

 throughout New England, thus making practically useless the data already 

 obtained, since observations for long terms of years are necessary to attain 

 any results of scientific value. 



Another important report upon the forest and water conditions of North- 

 ern New Hampshire was embodied in the report of the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture to Congress, under the act of 1907, appropriating |25,000 for an'investi- 

 gation of the Southern Appalachian and White Mountains, with reference to 

 the proposed national forests. This report was prepared under the direction 

 of William L. Hall of the United States Forest Service, and the material was 

 gathered by the united work of Forest and Geological Survey experts, making 

 a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the conditions and opportunities 

 of this region. In this connection may be also mentioned the report issued 

 in November, 1909, by co-oi)eration between the New Hampshire Forestry 

 Commission and the United States Forest Service. This was an accurate and 

 comprehensive study of the "Commercial Importance of the White Mountain 

 Forests." It was prepared by Philip W. Ayres, Forester of the Society for 

 the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and issued as Forest Service Cir- 

 cular l(i8 by the United States Department of Agriculture. 



The first public land under the new conditions came to the state through 

 the exercise of their right of condemnation and purchase under the law, 

 through the generous gift by Joel H. and Arthur E. Poole of Jatfrey, and 

 Isaac Sprague of Boston, who made an otter of $8,000 for the purchase of 500 

 acres on the side of Mount Monadnock in the town of Jaffrey. which is now 

 held as the state's first public park. 



*A detailed account of "The Fight for the Appalachian Forests," by Edwin A. 

 Start, was published in this magazine, then known as Conservation, for May, 1909. 

 That article preserves the record of the hearings and of the succession of bills and their 

 history up to the close of the Sixtieth Congress. 



