FORESTRY AT CHAUTAUQUA 



THE largest audiences that ever 

 listened to addresses on for- 

 estry he;'rd with pleasure and 

 profit the speakers of the 

 American Forestry Association at Chau- 

 tauqua, N. Y., on July !) and 10, when 

 the Board of Directors of the Associa- 

 tion, holding their midsummer meet- 

 ing, agreed, upon request of the Chau- 

 tauqua Institution, to have speakers 

 give a number of public addresses. 



These addresses embraced many 

 phases of forest conservation, and as 

 the audiences were composed largely of 

 teachers from various sections of the 

 country, and as they will carry to their 

 class-rooms the instruction and for- 

 estry knowledge they received, the edu- 

 cational advantages of the meeting are 

 evident. Dr. Henry S. Drinker, Presi- 

 dent of Lehigh University and Presi- 

 dent of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, opened the first meeting with a 

 general outline of the forestry move- 

 ment and of the work of the Associa- 

 tion ; Prof. J- S. Toumey, head of the 

 Yale Forestry School, followed with an 

 address on the teaching of forestry in 

 the public schools. C. R. Pettis, Super- 

 intendent of New York State Forests, 

 spoke on State work in forestry and 

 what may be accomplished by it; Mr. 



J. S. Whipple, President of the New 

 York State Forestry Association, told 

 of what forestry has done and could do 

 for New York State, and Harris A. 

 Reynolds, Secretary of the Massachu- 

 setts Forestry Association, spoke of the 

 progress made in his State. 



In the evening there were illustrated 

 addresses by Dr. B. E. Fernow, dean 

 of forestry at the University of Toron- 

 to, on the battle of the forests, and by 

 Don Carlos Ellis, of the Forest Serv- 

 ice, on forest fires. 



On the second day E. T. Allen, for- 

 ester of the Western Forestry and Con- 

 servation Association, made a deep im- 

 pression in his talk on the forests, 

 lumber and the consumer; Capt. J. B. 

 White, a native of Chautauqua County 

 and widely known as a leading lumber- 

 man, talked in a most mteresting man- 

 ner about forest conservation for lum- 

 bermen, and Dr. J. T. Rothrock, a 

 famous forester and first forestry com- 

 missioner of Pennsylvania, spoke of the 

 relation of forests to the human prod- 

 uct of timberlands. In the evening Dr. 

 Rothrock gave an illustrated lecture on 

 the close relation of soil, water and for- 

 ests, and J. E. Rhodes, Secretarj^ of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, told how lumber is made. 



TROUT IN FOREST STREAMS 



PLANS to completely restock all 

 trout streams and lakes through- 

 out the national forests of Colo- 

 rado, Wyoming, and South Da- 

 kota, within a period of nine years, are 

 well under way, as the result of the 

 approval by the Federal Bureau of 

 Fisheries of a plan of operation pre- 

 pared by the Forest Service. The 

 I'ureau of Fisheries has promised to 

 furnish the necessary fish fry for dis- 

 tribution to the various forests, the 



shipments of fry to be directed to rail- 

 road stations nearest the waters to be 

 stocked so that as many streams as pos- 

 sible may be supplied from a central 

 j:)oint. The planting of all fry will be 

 l^erformed by forest officers, who will 

 keep close check on the results of the 

 work. 



According to the estimates of the 

 forest officers, approximately 20 million 

 trout fry of the brook, rainbow, and 

 black-spotted varieties will be needed 



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