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FOREST NOTES 



The National Conservation Congress 

 has decided to hold its sixth annual ses- 

 sion at New Orleans, La., on Novem- 

 ber 10. 11, 12 and 13, and during this 

 same period a meeting of the Board 

 of Directors of the American Forestry 

 Association will also be held at New 

 Orleans. 



Members of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association will hold their sixteenth 

 annual convention at Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia, September 1 to 4. It will be 

 the first forestry conservation conven- 

 tion ever held there, and the forest 

 owners in that section of Canada are 

 expected to attend in large numbers. 

 An excellent program has been pre- 

 pared. The American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation will be represented by a number 

 of its members. 



Massachusetts has secured a law 

 beneficial to forestry in the act which 

 was approved on June 29 and which 

 provides for the appointment of a State 

 forest commission of three men, includ- 

 ing the State forester, and gives them 

 power to spend $10,000 the first year, 

 and $20,000 each succeeding year, in 

 the purchase and reforesting of land 

 throughout the State at a price not to 

 exceed five dollarr, an acre. Land thus 

 acquired shall be exempt from taxation. 

 but the Commonwealth shall reimburse 

 cities and towns in which these lands 

 are situated for the taxes lost by reason 

 of their acquisition by the State. 



All hope that Louis S. Margolin, the 

 forest examiner of the Forest Service, 

 who disappeared in the Sierra National 

 Forest in June, is alive, has been aban- 

 doned. It is now believed that he lost 

 his life during a heavy thunderstorm 

 which prevailed a short time after he 

 left his headquarters, probably by 

 drowning while attempting to cross a 

 swollen stream. A search for his body 

 has so far been unsuccessful. Exam- 

 iner Margolin was one of the best 

 known men in the Forest Service with 

 a record of many years of first-class 

 work. 



The annual forestry conference in 

 the White Mountains, at Gorham. 

 N. H., on July 21, 22 and 23, brought 

 together members of the Society for the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests. 

 the Association of Northeastern For- 

 esters, members of various fire pro- 

 tective and timberland associations, and 

 members of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation and of the National Conserva- 

 tion Congress. There were several 

 conferences and meetings during the 

 three-day gathering at which some 

 highly instructive addresses were heard, 

 and considerable impetus was given to 

 the demand that the National Govern- 

 ment acquire more land for national 

 forests in New England. A feature of 

 the occasion was a visit to the paper 

 mills of the Berlin Mills Company at 

 Berlin, N. H.. and a trip into the forest 

 on the Presidential range. 



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