NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS 



587 



Green, dean of the School of Forestry 

 of the University of Minnesota, who 

 taught for twenty-two years in the 

 State Agricultural School. It was 

 adopted by the delegates all standing 

 in their places. The resolution follows : 



Whereas, Samuel B. Green, dean of the 

 School of Forestry of the University of Min- 

 nesota, and for twentj'-two years a teacher 

 in the State Agricultural School, has re- 

 cently been called to his reward; 



And whereas, Prof. Green has for years 

 ranked as one of the most prominent and 

 progressive instructors in forestry, and has 

 been a great force in the cause of developing 

 and conserving our natural resources; there- 

 fore be it 



Resolved, that in the death of Prof. Green 

 the State of Minnesota and the nation has 

 lost a distinguished citizen, and the cause of 

 forestry one of its most valuable assets. 



Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions 

 and an expression of our sympathy be for- 

 warded to Mrs. Green. 



THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



Edwin A. Start, executive secretary 

 of the American Forestry Association, 

 submitted the following statement on 

 behalf of his Association : 



No organization can more appropri- 

 ately than the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation make its statement and its 

 appeal to this congress. This Asso- 

 ciation is the first of our conservation 

 organizations. It has a past of nearly 

 thirty years to which it can point with 

 pride of real achievement ; an active and 

 efficient, though not a noisy, present ; 

 and a future of ever enlarging oppor- 

 tunity. 



In a very real sense we may say that 

 the work of this Association, through 

 long years of much luisunderstood 

 effort under the able guidance of the 

 great leaders of the American forestry 

 movement, made this congress possi- 

 ble ; for it was through the study of 

 forestry and its relation to the country 

 that the whole problem of our na- 

 tional resources came to be understood. 

 The man who has given the conserva- 

 tion of natural resources its impetus, 

 with the help of his distinguished chief, 

 then President of the United States, 

 was the recognized leader, the apostle 

 and evangelist of the forestry move- 

 ment ; and to-day no portion of our 

 natural resources holds a more import- 

 ant place than the forests. They are 

 inseparably linked with soils and waters, 

 both of which depend upon them in 

 great lueasure, and as a product of the 

 soil nothing exceeds the forest in value 

 and in necessity to human welfare. 

 Forests, like agricultural crops, belong 



to the renewable class of products and 

 their maintenance involves much more 

 complicated and permanent problems 

 than the non-renewable products like 

 minerals, oil, and gas. 



Therefore, we conceive the field ot 

 our Association to be vital and lasting 

 and so broad, many-sided and far- 

 reaching as to aiuply justify the exist- 

 ence of an association dedicated to the 

 advancement of scientific forestry for 

 the best utilization of our forest lands 

 for all time. 



Our appeal is to the citizen who de- 

 sires to promote the economic and 

 moral welfare of the nation, for moral 

 welfare comes only through good eco- 

 nomics and such management of natu- 

 ral resources as makes for prosperity. 

 It is to the lumberman and to all manu- 

 facturers who use forest products, for 

 to them this is a subject that touches 

 the permanence of their industries. It 

 is to the educator who looks beyond 

 mere cultural education and believes 

 that our education must more and 

 more fit men and women to cope with 

 the complex problems of modern life. 

 In this last connection we shall soon 

 announce plans recently set on foot for 

 giving practical and definite assistance 

 to those teachers who wish to bring 

 the fundamental principles of forestry 

 into their work, but who do not know 

 iiow. We shall try to show them how 

 in a systematic and practical way. 



Our work is independent of that of 

 the Government, but conducted in close 

 touch with it. As an independent body 



