The c^lmerican Forestri^ <i>lssociation 



Washington, D. C. 



JOSHUA L. BAILY. Pennsylvania 



THEODORE L. BRISTOL. Connecticut 



Ex-President Connecticut Forestry Association 



ANDREW CARXEGIE. Xew York 



MRS. EMMONS CROCKER. Massachusetts 



DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT. Massachusetts 

 President Emeritus Harvard University 



DR. B. E. FERNOW, Canada 



Dean of Forestry University of Toronto 



HON. WALTER L. FISHER. Chicago, III. 

 E,x-SeLTetary of the Interior 



President 



DR. HENRY STURCIS DRINKER. President. Lehigh University. South Bethlehem. Pa, 



Vice-Presidents 



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HENRY S. GRAVES. Di.-tnct of Colun 



Chief of the Forest Service 

 EVERITT G. GRIGGS. Washington 

 HON. DAVID HOUSTON 



Secretary of .'\griculture 

 HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE 



Secretary of the Interior 

 HON. ASBURY F. LEVER. South Carolina 



United States Re resentative 

 HON. THOMAS NELSON PAGE 



Ambassador to Italy 

 HON. GEO. PARDEE, California 



Ex-Governor of California 



GIFFORD PINCHOT. Pennsylvania 

 FILIBERT ROTH. Michigan 



Dean of Forestry. University of Michigan 



DR. J. T. ROTHROCK. Pennsylvania 



HON. WM. H. TAFT. Connecticut 

 Ex- President United States 



JOSEPH N. TEAL. Oregon 



Chairman Oregon Conservation Commission 



HON. JOHN WEEKS. Massachusetts 

 United States Senator 



DR. ROBERT S.WOODWARD. Washington. B.C. 

 President. Carnegie Institution. 



Treasurer 



JOHN E. JENKS. Editor. Army and Navy Register. Washington. D. C. 



Executive Secretary 



P. S. RIDSDALE, 1410 H Street. N. W.. Washington. D. C. 



E. T.ALLEN. Oregon 



Forester. Western For. and Con.servation Assi 

 HON. ROBERT P. BASS. New Hampshire 



Ex-Governor of New Hampshire 

 WM. B. GREELEY. District of Coljmbia 



.Assistant U. S. Forester 

 W. R. BROWN. New Hampshire 



Pres. New Hamp. Forestry Commission 

 HERMAN H. CHAPMAN. Connecticut 



Professor of Forestry. Yale Forest School 



Directors 



DR. HENRY S. DRINKER. Pennsylvania 



President. Lehigh University 

 ALFRED GASKILL 



State Forester. .New Jersey 

 JOHN E. JENKS. District of Columbia 



Editor. Army anil .Navy Register 

 CHESTER W. LYMAN. New York 



International Paper Company 

 CHARLES LATHROP PACK. New Jersey 



Pres. Fifth National Conservation Congress 



CHARLES F. QUINCY, New York 



J. E. RHODES. Illinois 



Secretary. Southern Pine Association 



ERNEST A. STERLING. Illinois 

 Forest and Timber Engineer 



TOHN L. WEAVER. District of Columbia 

 Real Estate Broker 



J. B. WHITE. Missouri 



Ex-President. National Conseivation Congress 



Declaration of Principles and Polic}^ 

 of Bhe cylmerican Forestry^ cylssociation 



IT IS A VOLUNTARY organization for the inculcation and spread of a forest policy on 

 a scilr .id.qiKitr for our economic needs, and any person is eligible for membership. 



IT IS INDEPENDENT, has no official connection with any Federal or State depart- 

 ment or policy, and is devoted to a public service conducive to national prosperit^■. 



IT ASSERTS THAT forestry means the propagation and care of forests for the jiro- 

 duetion of timber as a crop; protection of watersheds; utilization of non-agrieub 

 tural :~oil; use of forests for public recreation. 



IT DECLARES THAT FORESTRY is of immense importance to the people; that tlii^ 

 census of 1913 shows our forests annually supply over one and a quarter billion 

 dollars' worth of products; employ 733,000 people; pay $367,000,000 in wage^-; 

 cover 550,000,000 a* res unsuited for agriculture; regulate the distribution of water; 

 prevent erosion of lands; and are essential to the beauty of the country and tin- 

 health of the nation. 



IT RECOGNIZES THAT fon-stry is an industry limited by economic conditions; tiial 

 ]irivate owners siiould be aided and encouraged by investigations, demonstrations. 

 :nnl educational work, since they cannot be expected to practice forestry at a 

 financial loss; that I'ederal and vState governments should undertake scienfifir 

 forestry upon national and State forest reserves for the benefit of the public. 



IT WILL DEVOTE its influence and educational facilities to the development of 

 I)ublic thought a.nd knovvJcdge along these jjractical lines. 



It Will Support These Policies 



Federal Administration and Management 



r.f national forests; adequate afipro- 

 priations for their care and manage- 

 ment; Federal cooperation with the 

 States, especially in forest fire protec- 

 tion. 



Stale Activity by acquirement of forest 

 l.inds; organization for fire protect Hjn; 

 encouragement of forest planting by 

 communal an«' private owners; non- 

 political del artmen tally mdenendent 

 forest nrganizalir-n. with liberal appro- 

 priations for these purposes. 



Forest Fire Protection by Federal. State 

 and fire protect. ve agencies, and its 

 encouragement and extension, indi- 

 vidually and by cooperation; Without 

 adequate fire protection all other 

 meisures for forest crop production 

 will fail. 



Forest Planting by Federal and State 

 governments and long-lived corpora- 

 tions and acquirement of waste lands 

 for this purpose; and also planting by 

 private owners, where profital>le, and 

 encouragement of natural regeneration. 



Forest Taxation Reforms removing un- 

 iust Ijurdens from owners of growing 



timber. 

 Closer UMlization in logging and manu- 

 faeturiMK without loss to owners; aid 

 Id lunibLTmcii in achieving th s. 



Culling ol Mature Timber where and as 

 ilie <lo. nestle market deniiinds it. ex- 

 cept on areas maintained for park or 

 scenic fiurposes. and comjensation of 

 forest owners for loss suffered through 

 protfction of watersheds, or on behalf 

 of ,iny public interest. 



Equal Protection to the lumber industry 

 and to publ.c intercuts in legislation 

 affecting private tiinberland opera- 

 tions, recognizing that lumbering is 

 as legitimate and necessary as the 

 forests themselves. 



Classification by experts of lands best 

 suited for farming and those best suited 

 for forestry; and liberal national and 

 State appropriations for this work. 



