NEWS AND NOTES 



Indiana Forestry Association Formed 



The Indiana Forestry Association is the 

 name adopted for the new organization which 

 is being promoted in Indiana by Charles W. 

 Fairbanks and others to assist in the work 

 of protecting trees and planting new trees 

 in the waste places of the state. 



The following will be the twelve directors 

 and incorporators : Thomas R. Marshall, 

 Governor of Indiana; Charles W. Fairbanks, 

 former vice-president of the United States; 

 Addison C. Harris, attorney, Indianapolis; 

 William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana 

 University; Dr. John N. Hurty, secretary of 

 the state board of health ; Winthrop E. Stone, 

 president of Purdue university; John B. 

 Connor, editor of the Indiana Farmer ; Mason 

 B. Thomas, of Wabash College: Edgar A. 

 Perkins, the newly elected president of the 

 Indiana State Federation of Labor; George 

 B. Lockwood, of Marion; Hugh J. McGow- 

 an, president of the Indianapolis Traction and 

 Terminal Company; and Oscar Hadley^ 

 state treasurer. 



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Needed Forest Laws for Washington 



' The Washington commission on forest 

 legislation, appointed by Lieutenant Governor 

 Hay, has recommended to the executive and 

 to the legislature the enactment of a law 

 creating a state forestry department ; another 

 law providing state means for the reclama- 

 tion of logged off lands on the ten-year bond 

 issue improvement plan ; a law providing for 

 the submission of a constitutional amend- 

 ment providing for reforestration of non- 

 agricultural logged off lands, with_ exemp- 

 tion from taxation for a stated period, and, 

 finally, a law enlarging the scope of the 

 forestry department in the protection of 

 the forests of the state from destruction 

 by fire. 



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The Proposed Nebraska State Forest 



A member of the Forest service has, at 

 the request of the Nebraska Conservation 

 Commission examined the tract of wooded 

 land between Bellevue and South Omaha, 

 Nebraska, which the commission desires to 

 have the state purchase for forest purposes. 

 In his report the forester favors the proposed 

 plan. It is expected that the land would cost 

 between $100,060 and $150,000. 



$5,000,000 from a Town Forest 



A remarkable example of modern forestry 

 is furnished by the little town of Orson 

 in Sweden. The town, says the Lumber- 

 men's Revieiv, is probably the only munici- 

 pality in the world which has ordinary city 

 expenses, but which imposes no taxes upon 

 its citizens. Moreover, the local railway is 

 free to every citizen, and there is no charge 

 for telephone service, schools, libraries and 

 the like. This happy state of affairs is due 

 to the wisdom of a former generation of 

 citizens and rulers of Orson, who planted 

 trees on all available ground. During the last 

 thirty years the town authorities have sold 

 no less than $5,000,000 worth of young trees 

 and timber, and judicious replantings have 

 provided for a similar income in the future. 



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Biltmore Winter Term 



The members of the Biltmore Forest School 

 sailed October 4 for Germany, where they 

 will make their winter quarters at Darm- 

 stadt. 



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China May Send Us Students of Forestry 



A dispatch to the New York Herald from 

 Pekin says that Major Ahearn, chief of the 

 Philippine Bureau of Forestry, who is now 

 touring in China, conferred with a number 

 of government and provincial officials recent- 

 ly concerning the needs of China for affor- 

 estation. The interest which he aroused in- 

 dicated that in all probability a number of 

 students will soon be sent to American forest 

 schools. 



Resolutions of Minnesota Citizens 



A mass meeting of citizens at Hibbing, 

 Minn., adopted on October 14 the follow- 

 ing resolutions on the forest fire situation : 



"Whereas, the timbered portions of the 

 state of Minnesota have at intervals for the 

 past several years been visited by disastrous 

 forest fires, the most extensive being the fire 

 in 1893, which destroved the village of Hinck- 

 ley and devastated the surrounding country, 

 resulting in the loss of 416 human lives 

 and property of untold value; the_ fire which 

 destroyed the village of Virginia, in _ this 

 countv, in the same year, resulting in a 

 great loss of property, but fortunately no 

 loss of life ; the fire which destroyed the 

 village of Chisholm in this county in 1908, 



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