The cylmerican Forestry^ dissociation 



Washington, D. C. 



ANDRKW CARNEGIE, New York 



WILLIAM E. COLBY, California 

 Secretary of The Sierra Club 



COLEMAN DuPOXT. Delaware 



DR CHARLES \V. ELIOT. Massacliuselts 

 IVesident Emeritus Harvard University 



DR B. E. FKRN'OW, Canada 

 Dean of Forestry University of Toronto 



HENRY S. GRAVES, District of Columbia 

 Cbicf of tbe Forest Service 



E\KRI IT G. GRIGGS, WashinRton 



President 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK, Lakewood, N. J. 



Vice-Presidents 



HON. DAVID HOU.STON 



Secretary of ARricuIture 

 HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE, 



Secretary of the Interior 

 HON. .\SBURV F. LEVER, South Carolina 



United Stales Representative 

 HON. THOMAS NELSON PAGE 



Ambassador to Italy 

 GIFFORD PINCIIOT, Pennsylvania 

 MRS. FRANCES F. PRESTON, New Jersey 

 I-l 1,1 BERT ROTH, Michigan 



Dean of Forestry, University of Michigan 

 DR. .1. T. ROTHROCK, Pennsylvania 



MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, Illinois 



Chairman, Conservation Department 



General Federation of Women's Clubs 

 HON \VM. H TAFT, Connecticut 



Ex-President United States 

 JOSEPH N. TEAL, Oregon 



Chairman Oregon C'onservation Commission 

 THEODORE N. VAIL, Vermont 



President, .\m. Tel. & Tel. Co 

 HON, JOHN WEEKS, -Massachusetts 



United States Senator 

 DR R. S WOODWARD, Washington, D. C. 



President Carnegie Institution 



Treasurer 

 JOll.X E. JE.NKS. Editor. .\rmy and Navy Register. Washington, D. C. 



Executive Secretary 

 PEKCI\'.\1. SHELDON RIDSD.VLE, HIO H Street. N. W., Washington, D. C. 



Directors 



E T. ALLEN, Oregon 



Forester, Western For. and Conserv. .\ssn. 

 JOHN S A.MES, Massachusetts 

 HON. ROBERT P. BASS, New Hampshire 



Ex-Governor of New Hampshire 

 W.VI. B. GREELEY. District of Columbia 



-Assistant U. S Forester 

 W. R. BROWN, New Hampshire 



Pres , New Hamp. Forestry Commission 



lil';R.\l.\N H CH-\PMAN, Connecticut 



Professor of Forestry, Yale Forest School 

 DR HENRY S DRINKER. Pennsylvania 



President Lehigh University 

 ALFRED G ASK ILL 



State Forester, New Jersey 

 JOHN E. JENKS, District of Columbia 



Editor, Army and Navy Register 

 CHESTER W. LYMAN, New York 



\'ice Pres International Paper Company 



CHARLES LATHROl' PACK, New Jersey 



Pres , Nat'i Emergency Food Garden Com. 

 CHARLES F. QUINCY, New York 

 J E. RHODES. Illinois 



Secretary. Southern Pine .Association 

 ERNE.ST A. STERLING, New York 



Forest and Timber Engineer 

 J. B. WHITE, Missouri 



Ex-Pres., National Conservation Congress 



Declaration of Principles and Polic}^ 

 gf We c^merican Forestry" dissociation 



IT IS A VOLUNTARY organization for the inculcation and spread of a forest 

 jKilicy on a scale adequate for onr economic needs, and any person is eligible 

 for membership. 



IT IS INDEPENDENT, has no official connection with any Federal or State dc- 

 ])artniein or policy, and is devoted to a public -service conducive to national 

 prosperity. 



IT ASSERTS THAT forestry means the propagation and care of forests for the 

 pro(hicti(in <it timber as a crop; protection of watersheds; utilization of non- 

 agricultural soil; use of forests for public recreation. 



IT DECLARES THAT FORESTRY is of immense importance to the people; tliat 

 the census of VJV^ shows our forests annually supply over one and a quarter 

 billion dollars' worth of products; employ 735.000 people; pay $3()7.000,000 in 

 wages; cover 550,000,000 acres unsuited for agriculture; regulate the distri- 

 bution of water; prevent erosion of lands; and are essential to the beauty of 

 the comitry and the health of the nation. 



IT RECOGNIZES THAT forestry is an industry limited by economic conditions; 

 that private owners should be aided and encouraged by investigations, deiuon- 

 strations. and educational work, since they cannot be expected to practice for- 

 estry at a financial loss ; that h'ederal and State governments should undertake 

 scientific forestry upon National and State forest reserves for the benefit of 

 the public. 



IT WILL DEVOTE its intUionce and e<lucational facilities to the development ot 

 ])nl)lic thought and knowledge along these practical lines. 



It Will Support These Policies 



National and State Forests under Fed- 

 eral and State Ownership, administra- 

 tion and management respectively; 

 adrquatL- appropriations for their care 

 and manaKL-nu-nt ; Federal co-opera- 

 tion with the States, especially in 

 forest tire protection. 



State Activity hy acquirement of forest 

 lands; orKanization for fire protec- 

 tion ; encouragement of forest plant- 

 ing hy communal and private owners, 

 non -political departmental ly indepen- 

 dent forest orRanization. witli liberal 

 approi)riations for tliese purposes. 



Forest Fire Protection by Federal. 

 State and fire protective agencies, 

 and its t-ncnuragement and extension, 

 individually and by co-operation ; 

 without adequate fire protection all 

 other measures for forest crop pro- 

 duction will fail. 



Forest Planting by Federal and State 

 govrrnnunts and long-lived corpora- 

 tions and acquirement of waste lands 

 for this purpose; and also planting by 

 private owners, where profitable, and 

 encouragement of natural regenera- 

 tion. 



Forest Taxation Reforms removing un- 

 just burdens troni owners of growing 

 timber. 



Closer Utilization in logging and man- 

 ufacturing without loss to owners; aid 

 till' lunilierinan in achieving this. 



Cutting of Mature Timber wlurc and 

 as tne domestic market demands it. 

 except on areas maintained for park 

 or scenic purposes, and compensation 

 of forest owners for loss suffered 

 through protection of watersheds, or 

 on beiialf of any public interest 



Equal irTotection to the lumber indus- 

 try and to public interests in legisla- 

 tion affecting private timber land op- 

 erations, recognizing that lumbering 

 is as legitimate and necessary as the 

 forests themselves. 



Classification by experts of lands best 

 suited for farming and those best 

 suited for forestry ; and liberal na- 

 tional and .State appmpriatintis for 

 this work. 



