The cAmerican Forestrjr cAssociation 



Washington, D. C. 



ANDREW CARNEGIE, New York. 



WLLIAM E. COLBY, California, 

 Secretary of The Sierra Club. 



COLEMAN duPONT, Delaware, 



DR CHARLES W. ELIOT, Massachusetts, 

 President Emeritus Harvard University. 



DR. B. E. FERNOW. Canada, 

 Dean of Forestry University of Toronto. 



HENRY S. GRAVES, District of Columbia, 

 Chief of the Forest Service. 



EVERITT G. GRIGGS, Washington. 



President 

 CHARLES LATHROP PACK, Lakewood, N. J 

 Vice-Presidents 



HON. D.WID HOUSTON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 

 HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE, 



Secretary of the Interior. 

 HON. ASBURY F. LEVER, South Carolina, 



United States Representative. 

 HON. THOMAS NELSON PAGE, 



Ambassador to Italy. 

 GIFFORD PINCHOT, Pennsylvania. 

 MRS. FRANCIS F. PRESTON, New Jersey. 

 FILIBERT ROTH, Michigan, 



Dean of Forestry, University of Michigan. 

 DR. J. T. ROTHROCK, Pennsylvania. 



Tretsttier 

 JOHN E. JENKS, Editor, Army and Navy Register, Washington, D. C. 



ExecntiTe Secretary 

 PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, 1410 H. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C 



OliectoTS 



MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, Illinois, 



Chairman, Conservation Department, 



General Federation of Women's Clubs. 

 HON. WM. H. TAFT, Connecticut, 



Ex-President United States. 

 JOSEPH N. TEAL, Oreton, 



Chairman Oregon- Conservation Commission. 

 THEODORE N. VAIL, Vermont, 



President. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co. 

 HON. JOHN W. WEEKS, Massachusetts, 



United States Senator. 

 DR. R. S. WOODWARD, Washington, D. C, 



President Carnegie Institution. 



E. T. ALLEN, Oregon. 



Forester, Western For. and Con«erv. Assn. 

 JOHN S. AMES, Massachusetts. 



HON. ROBERT P. BASS, New Hampshire, 

 Ex-Governor of New Hampshire. 



WM. B. GREELEY, District of Columbia, 



Assistant U. S. Forester. 



W. R. BROWN, New Hampshire, 

 Pres., New Harap. Forestry Commission. 



HERMAN H. CHAPMAN, Connecticut, 

 Professor of Forestry, Yale Forest School. 



DR. HENRY S. DRINKER, Pennsylvania, 

 President, Lehigh University. 



ALFRED GASKILL, Trenton, New Jersey, 

 State Forester. 



JOHN E. JENKS, District of Columbia, 

 Editor, Army and Navy Register. 



CHESTER W. LYMAN, New York, 



Vice-Pres. International Paper Company. 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK, New Jersey, 

 Pres. Nat'l War Garden Commission. 



CHARLES F. QUINCY, New York. 



ERNEST A. STERLING, New York, 

 Forest and Timber Engineer. 



J. B. WHITE, Missouri, 

 Ex-Pres., National . Conservation Congress. 



Declaration of Principles and Policy^ 

 sf 7^ o^jnerican Forestry c/lssociation 



IT IS A VOLUNTARY organization for the inculcation and spread of a forest 

 policy on a scale adequate for our economic needs, and any person is eligible 

 for membership. 



IT IS INDEPENDENT, has no official connection with any Federal or State 

 department or policy, and is devoted to a public service conducive to national 

 prosperity. ■-. ■ . 



IT ASSERTS THAT forestry means the propagation and care of forests for the 

 production of timber as a crop; protection of watershed; utilization of non- 

 agricultural soil ; use of forests for public recreation. 



IT DECLARES THAT FORESTRY is of immense importance to the people; 

 that the census of 1913 shows our forests annually supply over one and a 

 quarter billion dollars' worth of products; employ 735,000 people; pay 

 $367,000,000 in wages; cover 550.000,000 acres unsuited for agriculture; regu- 

 late the distribution of water; prevent erosion of lands; and are essential to 

 the beauty of the country and the health of the nation. 



IT RECOGNIZES THAT forestry is an industry limited by economic conditions ; 

 that private owners should be aided and encouraged by investigation, demon- 

 strations, and educational work, since they cannot be expected to practice 

 forestry at a financial loss ; that Federal and State governments should under- 

 take scientific forestry upon National and State forest reserves for the benefit 

 of the public. 



IT WILL DEVOTE its influence and educational facilities to the development of 

 public thought and knowledge along these practical lines. 



It Will Support These Policies 



Nati->nal and State Forests under Fed- 

 eral and State Ownership, adminis- 

 tration and management respective- 

 ly;; adequate appropriations for their 

 care and management; Federal co- 

 operation with the State, especially 

 i^ forest f.re protection. 

 State Activity by acquirement of forest 

 lands; organization for fire protec- 

 tion; encouragement of forest plant- 

 ing by communal and private owneri, 

 non-political departmentally indepen 

 dent forest organization, with liberal 

 appropriations for these purposes. 

 Forest Fire Protection by Federal, 

 State and fire protective agencies, 

 and it^s encouragement and extension, 

 individually and by co-operation, 

 without ade.quate fire protection all 

 other measures for forest crop pro- 

 duction will fail. 

 Forest Planting by Federal and State 

 governments and long-lived corpora- 

 tions and acquirement of waste lands 

 for this purpose; and also planting 

 by private owners, where profitable, 

 cud encouragement of natural, regen- 

 eration. 

 Forest Taxation Reforms removing un- 

 just bv.rdcns from owners of growing 

 timber 

 Closer Utilization in logging and man- 

 ufacturing without loss to owners; aid 

 the lumberman in achieving this. 

 Cutting of Mature Timber wliere and 

 as the domestic market demands it, 

 except on areas maintained for park 

 or scenic purposes, and compensation 

 of forest owners for loss suffered 

 through projection of watersheds, or 

 on belialf of any public interest 

 Equal Protection to the lumber indus- 

 try and to public interests in legisla- 

 tion affecting private timberland op- 

 erations, recognizing that lumbering 

 is as legitimate and necessary as the 

 forests themselves. 

 Classitication by experts of lands best 

 s' i'ed for farming and those best 

 suited for forestry ; and liberal na- 

 t'onal a"d State appropriations for 

 this work. 



