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MEDAL PRESENTED TO THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION BY THE PANAMA-PACli'li. INTERNATIONAL EXPOSI- 

 TION AT SAN FRANCISCO OX AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION DAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 11)15 



Medal for the Association 



DIRECTORS of the Panama-Pacific International 

 Exposition at San Francisco presented a hand- 

 some bronze medal, reproduced here in actual 

 size, to the American Forestry Association during its 

 meeting there on American American Forestry Associa- 

 tion Day, Wednesday, October 20. The presentation was 

 made by Mr. C. S. Scott, representing President Charles 

 C. Moore. Mr. Scott referred to the very important 

 work the Association is doing in forest conservation and 

 in educating the pulilic in a love and knowledge of trees. 



and the great value of such a public spirited work. He 

 declared that in behalf of the Exposition he wished to 

 present the medal as a token of the appreciation with 

 which the people of the entire country view the efforts 

 of the Association and in the hope that it would receive 

 continued support. 



The medal was received by Dr. Henry S. Drinker, 

 president, who said the Association accepted it as an 

 incentive to further efforts in the great national se?vice 

 which it is doing. 



Three Resolutions 



THE following resolutions were 

 passed by the Western For- 

 estry and Conservation Asso- 

 ciation during the recent For- 

 est Industry Week at the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition in 

 San Francisco : 



ENDORSE AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 ASSOCIATION 



We desire to express our apprecia- 

 tion of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, and the excellent work it is 

 performing and particularly com- 

 mend its participation in the pro- 

 ceedings of this conference through 

 the presence of its officers and mem- 

 bers. We urge upon all of our mem- 

 bers the need for actively supporting 

 the American Forestry Association to 

 the end that a great national movement 

 may go forward with every possibility 

 of further material accomplishment. 



WEEKS LAW APPROPRIATION 



We have found the allotment of 

 funds under the Weeks' law for the 

 protection of forested western water- 

 sheds outside the national forests to be 

 perhaps the most practical and efifec- 

 tive means not only of stimulating 

 state eltort, but also of cementing pri- 

 vate, state and federal protective 

 effort into a harmonious and efficient 

 whole. Its value to the Government 

 in these ways is immeasurably beyond 

 its cost. We plead earnestly that it 

 be considered an experiment no longer 

 and that it be made a continual annual 

 appropriation. W'e pledge our coop- 

 eration and support to insure its eco- 

 nomical and advantageous expendi- 

 ture. 



We endorse the recommendation of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture that 

 further appropriation be made for 

 the purchase of additional lands at the 

 headwaters of navigable streams in 



the White Mountains and the southern 

 Appalachian Mountain and instruct 

 the secretary of this association to 

 request our members to urge the sena- 

 tors and representatives from their 

 several districts to support this 

 measure. 



COMMEND FOREST SERVICE 



We commend the excellent work of 

 the Forest Service in protecting the 

 national forests as far as its funds 

 permit and especially in developing 

 progressive methods as a contribution 

 to the modern science of fire preven- 

 tion. We not only speak for the entire 

 forest interests of the west in urging 

 upon Congress to provide liberally for 

 national forest protection, but also 

 believe we are competent to testify as 

 experts to the country at large that 

 greater expenditure for this purpose 

 is necessary to safeguard its forest 

 resources properly. 



