THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FOREST ASSOCIATION 505 



important than that, giving us the 

 moral support and vast influence that 

 would immediately make themselves 

 felt in needed national legislation. 

 Incidentally, they would, as "city 

 branches" of our association, keep up 

 the local interest and publicity. 



This kind of a membership in each 

 important city in each state welded 

 into a "State Forest League," directed, 

 as it could well be by our association, 

 could be made to wield a potent influ- 

 ence for the cause of the forests in 

 the various states in calling for state 

 legislation for the establishment of 

 state forests ; for the appointment of 

 state foresters ; for the revision of the 

 tax laws on forest areas ; for the en- 

 forcement of fire laws, and could 

 vastly help in the education of the in- 

 dividual owner of forest lands to a 

 sense of his duty to himself and pos- 

 terity and to the state. 



Then we want an individual mem- 

 bership made up of believers in our 

 work and workers for the conserva- 

 tion idea, of interests identified with 

 the forests or its related subjects, such 

 as lumbermen, agriculturists, power 

 companies, navigation companies, and 

 the like. 



And lastly, we want "Sustaining 

 Members," to provide the sinews of 

 war. 



And we will get them all, too, and 

 give them value received, for we are 

 going to give them Conservation 

 each month, and all the forest facts in 

 detail, and plenty of work to do besides. 



Forestry mass meetings under the 



auspices of the leading organizations, 

 are already planned and well under 

 way for Richmond, Lynchburg, and 

 Roanoke, Va., Winston-Salem, and 

 Greensboro, N. C, and other points, 

 and by the ist of October we shall have 

 our hands full. 



We are doing our work on faith — 

 faith in the hearty support both moral 

 and financial — of the people ; there 

 seems to be no doubt of the feasibility 

 and practicability of our plans, as they 

 have so far been developed, and no 

 doubt either that our faith in the peo- 

 ple is fully justified. 



The volume of work, however, grows 

 in the same proportion as the interest 

 grows, and we have a large task before 

 us, the successful accomplishment of 

 which is only possible by and through 

 united and earnest effort. 



"Pledged to the Forest Cause," our 

 new motto, means some individual sac- 

 rifice ; some individual work ; much in- 

 dividual earnestness, but it is work that 

 will count largely for future America, 

 and for future generations of Ameri- 

 cans, and we believe we shall soon have 

 behind us in our campaign the aggres- 

 sive spirit of what is termed the "New 

 South," which knows what it wants and 

 will get it. 



Very cordially yours, 

 The Appalachian National 



Forest Association, 

 John H. Finney, 



Secretary and Treasurer. 



National headquarters, 514 Metro- 

 politan Bank Bldg., Washington, D. C. 



DUCKTOWN, TENNESSEE 

 View Showing the Final Results of Deforestation 



