THE NATIONAL FOREST ADMINISTRATION 869 



offer the timber on terms which mil possible effort is given to develop small 

 tend to mcrease transportation facilities, sales for the supplv of local needs, and 

 promote settlement, and build up per- sales to industries \vhich require wood 

 manent communities. Where timber for special purposes, since sales of this 

 can be sold the benefits of Government character provide a fairlv steady market 

 management of the forests as public for national forest stumpage, even when 

 resources are apparent now. Where, the general market is depressed. In a 

 however, the timber is not in present word, the timber-sale poUcy, no less than 

 demand a difficult situation sometimes the grazing-regulation policy, aims to 

 ^^^f^^- make the resource serviceable to the 

 ' It has been urged that, with the vast public now, as well as in the future, in 

 supplies of \drgin national forest timber, the fullest degree which scientific pro- 

 the Government should greatly increase duction and utilization can make pos- 

 its sales by lowering the price asked for sible." 



stumpage. To the extent that such a In the section dealing with forestrv 



course had any effect at all it would be, the Secretary also points out that the 



m the long run, an effect unfavorable forests have passed through an unusually 



to the public interest. Upon the greater dry and dangerous summer mthout 



part of the timber it would have no serious fire damage. He indicates that 



effect, because no manufacturer could, the present emergency fimd of $100,000 



under present conditions, afford to cut for fire protection of one billion of dollars 



the timber at any pnce: Where timber of public propertv is inadequate even in 



IS thus not m demand because still ordinarv seasons. In discussing the 



inaccessible as a rule the possibility of recreational use of the forests, which he 



JSfriS SllL3!,fr °> ^,t 1 holds to be the chief of their secondarv 



penod oi greater activity m the general , ^i. ^ .li. j ^ ". 



lumber trade. When, as at the present T^J'u ""'^S ^^^ ^^^ department 



time, lumbermen are forced bv general ^^^^^ ^^ enabled to grant term leases 



market conditions to curtail output, the ^° persons wishing to use the land for 



department can not expect to make summer homes or hotels. He also 



many large sales. Nevertheless, it is emphasizes the importance of protecting 



wise even in such times not to cease the watersheds in the forests, so that the 



offering large bodies of timber on terms water supply of the 1,200 communities 



which may attract purchasers, and this supplied from this soiu^ce may not be 



is being done. At the same time all polluted. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING 



The annual meeting of the American Forestry Association will be held on Monday, 

 January 11, in New York City at the headquarters of the Merchants Association of New I 

 York, Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway. 



The sessions will be at 10 a. m.; 2 p. m., and 7 p. m. 



This is a departure from the usual custom of holding the meeting in Washington, 

 D. C, the change being made because New York is more accessible to the many thousand 

 New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey members than is Washington, 

 and because members of the Societj^ of American Foresters and of the Society of Eastern 

 Foresters will assemble in New York on the same day. 



The meeting will consist of a series of addresses and discussions on what the American 

 Forestry Association can do to aid during the coming year in national, state and private 

 forestry and in encouraging the use of forests for recreation. There will also be discus- 

 sion of measures for aiding by careful investigations of conditions affecting them, and other- 

 wise, the lumbermen, timberland owners and pulp and paper interests. It is proposed to 

 make the meeting an eminently practical one, one at which the addresses and discussions will 

 be of great service in outlining the important work of the Association for the coming year. 



The complete program will be announced in the January American Forestry Magazine. 



Members of the Association and their friends are requested to attend and to participate 

 in the discussions. 



