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prospective owners cannot afford to 

 practice conservative forest manage- 

 ment because of economic conditions. 



3. Small areas distributed over the 

 state to serve as demonstrations of 

 practical forest management. 



3. Lands of special value for State 

 parks, or watershed protection. 



Maryland owns less than 2,000 acres 

 of State Forests located in the moun- 

 tain section and which may be classed 

 under number 1 above. These came to 

 us by gift at the time the first forest 

 law was enacted. The five demonstra- 

 tion forests under State supervision, 

 but privately owned, served as the sec- 

 ond class of State Forests ; while the 

 third will be represented in the Pataps- 

 co Park, near Baltimore, for the pur- 



chase of which $50,000 has recently 

 been appropriated by the State. 



These are only a few of the more im- 

 portant problems with which the State 

 has to deal. Many others are awaiting 

 solution, such as the taxation of wood- 

 lands, the problem of forest tree in- 

 sects, and diseases, the encouragement 

 of wood-using industries that will 

 utilize low grade material and make 

 forest management more profitable, the 

 protection of shade and roadside trees, 

 and new ones constantly asserting 

 themselves as new conditions are pre- 

 sented. 



*Photographs by courtesy of the Maryland 

 State Board of Forestry. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS 



MEETING 



y^^'HE midsummer meeting of the 

 ^ ) directors of the American For- 

 ^*^ estry Association will be held in 

 the White ^Mountains, in connection 

 with a trip on July 17, 18 and 19, ar- 

 ranged by a joint invitation extended to 

 them and their guests by Governor 

 Bass, of New Hampshire, the presi- 

 dent of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation ; the New Hampshire Forestry 

 Commission and the Society for the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests. 



The following itinerary has been ar- 

 ranged for all those starting from New 

 York, but it is desired that if it is more 

 convenient for others to join the party 

 at some point en route that they may 

 feel free to do so. li sufficient ac- 

 ceptances to the invitations are re- 

 ceived a special Pullman car will l)e 

 attached to the regular 8 p. m. train 

 for Concord, N. H., at the Grand Cen- 

 tral Station, New York, on Tuesday 

 evening, July 10, wliich will be side- 

 tracked at Concord on Wednesday 

 morning. 



The party will breakfast Wednes- 

 day, July 17, at the Eagle Hotel and 

 Governor Bass will then receive and 

 welcome the party at the State Capitol. 

 Automobiles will be furnished through 

 the courtesy of a number of those in 

 attendance and an automobile truck to 

 carry all baggage. A run will then lie 



made of about seventy-five miles to 

 Deer Park Hotel at North \\'oodstock 

 stopping on the way to see the State 

 Nursery at Boscowan and to lunch at 

 Plymouth. At Deer Park Hotel the 

 party will join members of the So- 

 ciety for the Protection of New Hamp- 

 shire Forests in a short visit to the 

 most beautiful Lost River Reserve 

 nearby, lately purchased by the Society, 

 returning to the Hotel for dinner and 

 the night. The morning of Thursday, 

 July 18, the party will proceed by au- 

 tomobile through the profile notch to 

 the Mt. Washington Hotel. Bretton 

 Woods, for lunch and remain there in 

 attendance upon the fifth annual fores- 

 try conference which is to be held at 

 Bretton Woods on the 18th and 19th 

 under the auspices of the Society for 

 the Protection of New Hampshire 

 Forests in co-operation with the State 

 Forestrv Commission and the Asso- 

 ciation of North Eastern Foresters, 

 Short excursions from this point can 

 easily be taken to see the New State 

 Reservation of Crawford Notch and 

 the proposed Federal Reserves to be 

 purchased under the \\^eeks Act. The 

 special Pullman will be brought from 

 Concord to Bretton Woods for those 

 returning to New York and leave at 

 about 8:30 a. m., July 20. and arrive in 

 New York at about 9 p. m. 



