The cAmerican Forestrjr c>lssociation 



Washington, D. C. 



ANDREW CARNEGIE, New York 



WILLIAM E. COLBY, California 



Secretary of The Sierra Club 



COLEMAN DuPONT, Delaware 



DR CHARLES \V. ELIOT, Massachusetts 

 President Emeritus Harvard University 



DR B. E. FERNOW, Canada 

 Dean of Forestry University of Toronto 



HENRY S. GRAVES, District of Columbia 

 Chief of the Forest Service 



EVERITT G. GRIGGS, Washington 



President 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK, Lakewood, N. J. 



Vice-Presidents 



HON. DAVID HOUSTON 



Secretary of Agriculture 

 HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE, 



Secretary of the Interior 

 HON. ASBURY F LEVER, South Carolina 



United States Representative 

 HON. THOMAS NELSON PAGE 



.Ambassador to Italy 

 GIFFOKD PINCHOT, Pennsylvania 

 MRS. FRANCES F. PRESTON, New Jersey 

 FILIBEKT ROTH, Michigan 



Dean of Forestry, University of Michigan 

 DR. J. T. ROTHROCK, Pennsylvania 



MRS. JOHN D SHERMAN, Illinois 



Chairman, Conservation Department 



General Federation of Women's Clubs 

 HON WM H TAFT, Connecticut 



E-\-President United Stales 

 JOSEPH N..TEAL, Oregon 



Cliairman Oregon Conservation Commission 

 THEODORE N. VAIL, Vermont 



President, Am, Tel & Tel. Co 

 HON. JOHN WEEKS, Massachusetts 



United States Senator 

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



President Carnegie Institution 



Treasurer 

 JOHN E. JENKS, Editor. .-Vrmy and Navy Register, Washington, D. C. 

 Executive Secretary 

 PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, IJIO H Street, N. W , Washington, D. C. 



Directors 



E. T. ALLEN, Oregon 



Forester, Western For. and Conserv, Assn. 

 JOHN S. AMES, Massachusetts 

 HO.N. ROBERT P. BASS, New Hampshire 



Ex-Governor of New Hampshire 

 WM. B. GREELEY, District of Columbia 



Assistant U. S Forester 

 W. R. BROWN, New Hampshire 



r*rt-s . New Ilamp. Forestry Commission 



HERMAN H. CHAPMAN, Connecticut 



Professor of Forestry, Yale Forest School 

 DR HENRY S DRINKER, Pennsylvania 



President Lehigh University 

 ALFRED GASKILL 



State Forester, New Jersey 

 JOHN E. JENKS, District of Columbia 



Editor, Army and Navy Register 

 CHESTER W. LYMAN, New York 



Vice-Pres International Papir Company 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK, New Jersey 

 Pres. Nat'l Emergency Food Garden Com- 

 mission. 



CHARLES F. QUINCY, New York 



ERNEST A. STERLING, New York 

 Forest and Timber Engineer 



J. B WHITE. Missouri 



Ex. -Pres., National Conservation Congress 



Declaration of Principles and Policy^ 

 gf 'We cylmerican Forestr}^ cylssociation 



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

 policy on a scale adequate for our economic needs, and any person is eligible 

 for membership. 



IT IS INDEPENDENT, has no oflficial connection with any Federal or State de- 

 partment or policy, and is devoted to a public service conducive to national 

 I>rosperity. 



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

 production of timber as a crop; protection of watersheds; utilization (if non- 

 agricultural soil ; use of forests for public recreation. 



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

 the census of 1913 shows our forests annually supply over one and a quarter 

 billion dollars' worth of products; employ 735.000 people; pay $307,000,000 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 country 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, demon- 

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

 estry at a financial loss; that Federal and State governments should undertake 

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

 the i)ublic. 



IT WILL DEVOTE its infiucnce and educational facilities to the development ot 

 [)uhlic 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; 

 ailequate aiiprupriaiioiis for tlieir care 

 ami manaj^cincnt ; Federal coopera- 

 tion with the States, especially in 

 forest fire protection. 



State Activity by acquirement of forest 

 lands; organization for fire protec- 

 tion ; encouragement of forest plant- 

 ing by communal and private owners, 

 non -political depart men tally indepen- 

 dent forest organization, with liberal 

 appropriations for these purposes. 



Forest Fire Protection by Federal, 

 State and fire protective agencies, 

 and its encouragement and extension, 

 individually and by co-operation ; 

 w ithout adequate fire protection all 

 other measures for forest crop pro- 

 duction will fail. 



Forest Planting by Federal and State 

 j^uveiimit-nis and long-lived corpora- 

 tions and acquirement of waste lands 

 fur this puri)ose; and also planting by 

 private owners, where profitable, and 

 encouragement of natural regenera- 

 tion. 



Forest Taxation Reforms removing un- 

 just burdens from owners of growing 

 timber. 



Closer Utilization in loEging and man- 

 ufacturing without loss to owners; aid 

 the lunitu riuan in ach^t-ving ihis. 



Cutting of Mature Timber where and 

 as tne domestic market demands it. 

 except on areas maintained for park 

 or scenic purposes, and compensation 

 of forest owners for loss sulTered 

 throngli protection of watersheds, or 

 on behalf of any public interest 



Equal Protection to the lumber indus- 

 try and to public interests in legisla- 

 tion alTecting private timberland op- 

 erations, recognizing that lumbering 

 is as legitimate and necessary as the 

 fnrt-si s iln-m^i Ivis. 



Classification by experts of lands best 

 suited for farming and those best 

 suited for forestry ; and liberal na- 

 tional and State appropriations for 

 this work. 



