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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



(5) That the states should encourage private forestry, by extending the 

 facilities for popular information on forestry subjects, by establishing demon- 

 stration forests, and especially by improving the system of protection from 

 forest fires, and by reforming the laws on forest taxation. That they should 

 inaugurate the policy of buying land requiring a perpetual forest cover, and 

 of managing such land by the state as an owner, with all the rights of an 

 owner. That they should enforce a reasonable degree of regulation on lands 

 where the indirect influence of the forests on streams and erosion is clearly 

 proven, but they should put the interpretation of such regulations in the 

 hands of a qualified forester, with the power, and with suflScient assistance, 

 to insure full enforcement. 



Every state where such conditions maintain should have a state forester 

 technically qualified for his position. 



(6) That this Association makes an earnest appeal to Congress to give 

 increased appropriations to provide adequate protection of our national for- 

 ests from fire, and to secure their best administration and development, and 

 strongly recommends that the several states provide ample funds to carry out 

 their forest policies along broad lines. 



(7) That the president of the association, the Hon. Curtis Guild, Jr., be 

 requested to epitomize the very able, comprehensive and instructive address 

 presented by him at this annual meeting into the form of a memorial in behalf 

 of the White Mountain and Appalachian national forest bill, which the board 

 of directors are requested and instructed to forward to the President, and to 

 the members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate of the United 

 States. 



