EDITORIAL 



American Forestry 



OUR magazine opens its new volume 

 under a name clear cut and defi- 

 nite, and we believe more descriptive 

 of its primary mission than that of 

 Conservation, which has appeared upon 

 its cover for a little over a year. The 

 change has not been made without care- 

 ful deliberation on the part of the direc- 

 tors of the Association, and consultation 

 with the advisory board, and with those 

 whose knowledge of the history of the 

 Association entitles them to judge of its 

 wisdom. Changes of name of a publi- 

 cation are not to be lightly made, and 

 ours has suffered somewhat in this re- 

 spect. Since the development of the 

 great movement for the conservation of 

 all our natural resources-was set on foot 

 there has been a little confusion as to 

 the function of different agencies for 

 the promotion of this work, but we be- 

 lieve that a very large majority of the 

 members of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation, whose magazine this is, will 

 agree that their directors have well and 

 conscientiously fulfilled their trust in 

 defining the especial task of the Asso- 

 ciation and of its magazine as the in- 

 tensive cultivation of the field of for- 

 estry. This will not be interpreted 

 narrowly, but in its broadest sense, as it 

 affects the life and welfare of the Amer- 

 ican people, through the maintenance of 

 a supply of forest products, the pro- 

 tection of the land and stream-flow, and 

 the maintenance of healthful climatic 

 conditions. This is a far-reaching sub- 

 ject, and American Forestry is the 

 only magazine in this country that 

 undertakes its interpretation to our 

 people. 



How we propose to acconiplish this 

 task is set forth in other pages of this 

 issue. We ask for the cooperation of 



our members and of all of the forestry 

 workers of the country in making our 

 efforts a success. 



The new name does not, therefore, 

 mean a new magazine, nor a break in 

 our growth. It means a clarifying of 

 our ideas as to our function in the pro- 

 gressive movement now going on and 

 continuance of the improvement, in our 

 product which we have always tried to 

 make from year to year. 



It does not mean narrowing our 

 policy, but intensifying it and direct- 

 ing it more effectively. 



It does not mean an abandonment of 

 the broad platform of conservation. It 

 means that the movement has already 

 grown to the point where special work 

 is needed along special lines, and of 

 these, forestry, for its primary value 

 and its secondary effects, is the most 

 important and still calls for thorough 

 educational work and effort along leg- 

 islative and practical lines. This is 

 what the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion was organized for over twenty 

 years ago, and what we believe its large 

 membership wish it to do. This we 

 hope to do with the help of the national 

 and state forest services, and of kin- 

 dred associations in all parts of the 

 United States. American Forestry 

 aims to work with and for them all. 



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A Greater Union Through a Greater South 



IN SETTING up for its guifling prin- 

 ciple "a greater Union through a 

 greater South." the Southern Com- 

 mercial Congress has struck a note of 

 combined local pride and national pa- 

 triotism which should find response 

 from every Southerner and fraternal 

 sympathy from every Northerner and 



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