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appointed and his selection or retention 

 of the present trained force of foresters. 

 But apparently, a far better plan is that 

 of an unpaid board appointed for over- 

 lapping terms, whose sole duties are to 

 select the executive heads of depart- 

 ments, free from political pressure, and 

 to decide important questions of policy. 

 The executive power would be lodged 

 in the appointee, who, being selected 

 solely for his training and fitness as 

 well as his knowledge of the affairs of 

 the department, would be able to give 

 to the State the maximum of efficient 

 service. Many states are operating 

 under this plan of organization, notably 

 Minnesota, Oregon, and Wisconsin. In 



New York this principle is successfully 

 applied to the management of the public 

 schools through a board of regents. The 

 State may yet be forced to adopt it as 

 the best possible plan for protecting 

 her Forest Preserve. Meanwhile, the 

 good faith shown by the present legis- 

 lature in their handling of the problem 

 of reorganizing the Conservation Com- 

 mission, and their attitude towards the 

 principle of non-political management 

 of the people's resources, will have a 

 profound influence upon the attitude 

 which the Constitutional Convention 

 takes towards proposed amendments 

 permitting timber cutting on the Forest 

 Preserves. 



FORESTRY AT THE EXPOSITION 



A 



MERICAN Forestry Association 

 Day at the Panama-Pacific Ex- 

 position at San Francisco will 

 be Wednesday, October 20, 1915. 

 The Association will participate in a 

 joint three day meeting, October 19th, 

 20th and 21st, with the Western Forestry 

 and Conservation Congress and the 

 Pacific Logging Congress, each organi- 

 zation having one day for its work and 

 its special program. 



This will be the first time the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association has ever met 

 on the Pacific Coast, and, as such a 

 large percentage of the standing lumber 

 of the United States is West of the 

 Rockies, it is appropriate that the 

 meeting should be held there, particu- 

 larly at a time when the Exposition 

 will also attract so many Eastern 

 members of the Association. 



State Forestry, Fire Protective and 

 Conservation Associations and all or- 

 ganizations interested in the forests and 

 their care and perpetuation, will be 

 invited to be represented at the meeting. 



The program will deal largely with 

 Forest Fire protective work and the 

 more important phases of forestry. 

 It will be announced in a short time. 



Members of the American Forestry 

 Association attending the meeting will 

 not be asked to travel from the East 

 in one party or to go by any special 

 route, but will find it more convenient 

 to form their own parties and select 

 the routes which most appeal to them. 



Further information may be secured 

 by writing to Secretary, American 

 Forestry Association, Washington, D. C. 



Deer in Grand Canyon. 



It is estimated that the government's Grand Canyon game refuge, in Arizona, now contains 

 about ten thousand deer. 



9,000,000 Trees Planted. 



More than nine milhon young trees and ten thousand pounds of seed were planted on the National 

 Forests in 1914. 



