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Whereas, experience has shown that these associations have been effective in materially 

 reducing the damage caused by forest fires on their own and contiguous forest lands, be it 



Resolved. That the American Forestry Association recognizes the great value of co- 

 operative fire protection and most heartily commends the public spirited action of the asso- 

 ciations already formed and strongly urges the timberland owners of all sections of the 

 country where fires arc serious to avail themselves of the benefits to be derived from 

 such co-operation, and be it 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to all such associations now in 

 existence and to all lumberman's associations who do not co-operate for fire protection. 



RESOLUTION NO. 5 



Resolved, That it is the duty of state governments to encourage the practice of forestry 

 by private owners and that the most effective means to this end are efficient fire protection, 

 education, and state forests, and reform in forest taxation. 



That it is necessary, in order to secure an effective system of fire protection that a 

 state system of control and inspection be perfected, supplemented as far as possible in 

 dangerous regions, by state patrolmen employed continuously throughout the danger season. 



That in this connection states be urged to co-operate with the national government 

 under the Weeks law by establishing a system of patrol sufficiently effective to enable 

 them to secure a proportion of the congressional appropriation for this purpose. 



That the educational efforts of states should take the form of popular lectures, pro- 

 fessional advice to timberland owners and short courses of instruction in state institu- 

 tions. 



That states should acquire land for the establishment of demonstration forests and 

 experimental areas and that in no other way can forestry be so effectively advanced as by 

 the actual practice of forestry by the state governments. 



That states should acquire large tracts of land unfit for agriculture either because of its 

 mountainous or sandy character, and should devote it to growing timber, as a matter of 

 state economy. 



That the forestry work of states can be best conducted by technically trained foresters 

 with practical knowledge of conditions, and that it is of vital importance that the forester's 

 office be entirely free from political influence 



FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR UNIVERSITY OF 



IDAHO 



©Y the action of the lumber and timber interests of northern Idaho the 

 T^niversity of Idaho will soon have one of the best equipped forestry de- 

 partments in the United States. $58,000 was voted at a meeting of the 

 Northern Idaho Forestry Association held in Spokane to consider the question 

 of prorating the timber holdings of the members of the Association to raise 

 funds for the erection of a Forestry building at the University of Idaho. Presi- 

 dent M acLean and Dean Carlyle were present and outlined the work and future 

 problems and possibilities of the Forestry department. Dr. C. H. Shattuck, 

 head of the department, ex])lained his work in seeking commercially profitable 

 processes of handling the by-products of the lumber industry. Realizing that 

 only scientific investigation can discover such processes, the lumber and timber 

 men of northern Idaho voted the money needed to enable Dr. Shattuck to carry 

 on his investigations. 



''Sawed products," said Dr. Shattuck, "represent less than forty per cent 

 of the total products of the tree. Tlie lumberman needs the help of the scientist 

 in finding ways of utilizing the sixty per cent. In Europe the by-products are 

 often more valuable than the lumber products. Among the valuable by- 

 products of our western woods for which there is an increasing demand are: 

 ethyl alcohol, thirty-four difTerent kinds of paper, turpentine, rosin, creosote, 

 shingle stain, fir balsam, oils of various kinds, pyroligneous acid, acetic acid, 

 tannic acid, sugar, tar, pitch, charcoal and coke." 



