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already in existence. Another committee, 

 representing the American Forestry As- 

 sociation and made up i)referahiy of 

 members of the Executive Committee, 

 should be appointed. This committee 

 should have a secretary or chairman to 

 assist the Secretary of the Association 

 in the technical work relating to the 

 standing committees, or to work di- 

 rectly with the chairman of the other 

 committees." 



The delegates suggested a tentative 

 list of subjects for investigation, and 

 some names of committeemen, and the 

 subjects, and the committees having 

 them in charge will be announced after 

 the two committees meet. 



Following a long discussion of the 

 proposed work, and a hearty endorse- 

 ment of the plan by all the directors, 

 Chairman Lyman appointed a commit- 

 tee of three members of the executive 

 committee to take charge of the investi- 

 gative \york for the Association, and 



confer with the committee appointed at 

 the Conservation Congress. This com- 

 mittee comprises Charles Lathrop Pack, 

 Col. W. R. Brown and E. A. Sterling. 

 The opinion was generally expressed 

 that the work should lead to securing 

 definite results of a practical nature and 

 will materially aid in securing the closer 

 co-operation of lumbermen and forest- 

 ers, and a decided extension of the work 

 of the Association. It wms decided that 

 Executive Secretary Ridsdale shall at- 

 tend the annual meeting of the Empire 

 State Forest Products Association at 

 Watertown, N. Y., on Nov. 14 ; and that 

 Governor Robt. P. Bass, E. A. Sterling 

 and P. S. Ridsdale attend the annual 

 meeting of the Western Forestry and 

 Conservation Association at Seattle on 

 Dec. 2 and 3. 



It was also decided to hold the annual 

 meeting in Washington, D. C, in Jan- 

 uary at some date to be decided later. 



UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR STATE FORESTRY 



IN the May number of American 

 Forestry mention was made in 

 these columns of the Conference 

 of New York State Departments inter- 

 ested in Forestry, which was held at Al- 

 bany on April 10th. The Conference 

 appointed a Committee on Standards to 

 consider uniform standards which 

 should be employed in connection with 

 State work in forestry in New York. 

 The object of this was to secure uni- 

 form methods in all forestry work 

 which might be done within the State, 

 in order that the results might be read- 

 ily co-ordinated, even though they might 

 be secured by different departments. 

 The personnel of the Committee on 

 Standards is as follows : 



Dean Hugh P. Baker, State College 

 of Forestry, Syracuse University, 

 Syracuse. N. Y., Chairman. 



Prof. Walter Mulford, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Wm. G. Howard, Asst. Superin- 



ent of State Forests, Conservation 

 Commission, Albany, N. Y. 



The Committee held meetings in Alay 

 and June, and also one on October 20th, 

 at which the questions pertaining to the 

 standardization of forest mapping were 

 considered. The Committee held it de- 

 sirable to retain the forms and symbols 

 employed by the Forest Service, insofar 

 as these forms and symbols might be ap- 

 plicable to conditions in New York 

 State. It was deemed advisable to use 

 the following standards for all forest 

 map])ing work within the State. The 

 following specifications were made up: 



Forest Maps. Types to be indicated 

 by colors. Eight forest types have been 

 outlined to include all the forests within 

 the State. In cases where it is not feas- 

 ible to indicate types by colors, a system 

 of hatchure may be employed. The 

 stand of timber to be designated by the 

 alpha-numerical system, placing within 

 each type a circle, inside of which the 



