EDITORIAL 



635 



cultural should pass to actual settlers in 

 such quantity only as may be necessary to 

 make homes for the settlers. 



In order to promote regularity in the flow 

 of streams and the furnishing of a larger 

 volume of water for irrigation and all other 

 useful purposes, the proper and scientific ad- 

 ministration of the forests and timber areas, 

 the property of the state, is a policy avail- 

 able forthwith to be initiated and at all times 

 strictly pursued. The enactment of legisla- 

 tion to prevent, as far as may be, forest fires, 

 the stripping of watersheds, and the cut- 

 ting of unripe timber on lands not profitable 

 for agricultural and horticultural purposes is 

 hereby pledged. Experiments in reforesta- 

 tion should be made, with a view to ascer- 



taining the practicability of affording protec- 

 tion to bare or denuded watersheds. 



For the development and prosperity of 

 the present and future industrial enterprises 

 of Montana, the use of water for power pur- 

 poses is necessary, and every encouragement 

 consistent with a proper safeguarding of the 

 public interests should be given to such use ; 

 these safeguards to be furnished by a law 

 permitting the use of water for power gen- 

 erating purposes thereafter initiated, only 

 after a franchise thereof is granted, and 

 under such regulations, restrictions and con- 

 ditions as, while insuring justice to the in- 

 vestors interested in power development, will 

 relinquish no inherent right of the whole 

 people to whom this and other resources be- 

 long. 



ANTI^FOREST^FIRE CONGRESS 



Twenty ''eighth Annual Meeting of the American Forestry Association 

 Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C, January 13, 14, 1908 



A SESSION on Forest Fires, at which the losses of the year will 

 be summarized and means of fire prevention will be discussed. 

 A session on State Forest Work. 



A session devoted to the relations of Forests to Waterways and Soils. 

 A session devoted to the Appalachian and White Mountain Forest 

 Reserves and the Conservation of Natural Resources. 



Each session will be addressed by leading experts from all parts of 

 the country. 



A further announcement will appear in the December number. 



