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have no local organizations and fill the gap until local forestry societies are 

 firmly established. 



Our magazine, American Forestry, can perform a public service of first 

 importance by advocating all the foregoing policies. The extent of its useful- 

 ness is directly measured by its circulation and it is our purpose to extend that 

 circulation by every means at our command. In this endeavor I solicit the 

 active co-operation of every member of the Association. 



We are planning to give this magazine a more popular tone than it has 

 heretofore had. This we hope to accomplish by lessening the number of tech- 

 nical articles and broadening the scope of the publication. We want to put it 

 in the hands of as many timberland owners and people interested in forestry 

 as we can possibly reach. 



In closing let me emphasize the fact that the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation is entering on a new era in its activities. It is adopting a definite 

 constructive program for the future, to which it will give its unqualified and 

 vigorous support. We are striving to enlist the active interest of influential 

 public spirited men and women throughout the country. We are engaged in a 

 task which, if successfully consummated, will inure to the fundamental and 

 permanent benefit of the whole Nation. Let us all put our shoulder to the 

 wheel and help. 



The Neiv York Conservation Commission which has made an examination 

 of the forest conditions on lands of State institutions, at the request of the 

 Fiscal Supervisor of State Charities, reports that of the total acreage of 

 8,908, about forty per cent, or 3,568 acres, is badly in need of the application 

 of practical forestry. 



Traces of the deadly chestnut blight which was believed to be confined 

 to the eastern section of Pennsylvania have recently been discovered in the 

 western section west of the Alleghenies. 



The Pennsylvania State Branch of the National Conservation Association 

 is arranging to launch a plan for a state park. Governor Tener, is understood 

 to be heartily in favor of the plan. 



Hon. J. J. Kindred, Representative from the l4th District of New Yoi'k, 

 has had printed in the Congressional Record, the resolutions adopted by the 

 American Forestry Association at its annual meeting on January 9, and 

 Representative F. E. Wilson presented the resolutions to the House of Repre- 

 sentatives. 



The Southwestern Lumbermen's Association held its annual meeting in 

 Kansas City, Mo., on January 2^, 25 and 26, and members report that it loas 

 a very successful gathering. 



