A 



CONNECTICUT FORESTRY 

 MEETINGS 



N INSPIRING series of forestry taken up through State enterprise, and 

 addresses were presented on the it is even now too late to grow a new 

 eighth and ninth of March at crop of trees before the scarcity wiU be 

 Middlebury and Waterbury, upon us. State planting on a large scale 

 Connecticut, under the auspices of the should begin without further delay. 

 American Forestry Association, in coop- Able addresses from other parts of 

 eration with the Forestry Associations New England, by Mr. Harris A. 

 of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massa- Reynolds, Secretary of the Massa- 

 chusetts and New Hampshire. chusetts Forestry Association, and Mr. 



A most forcible address was presented Philip W. Ayres, Forester of the 



by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, the first Com- Society for Protection of New Hamp- 



missioner of Forestry in Pennsylvania, shire Forests, showed the same general 



and for many years an active member conditions in New England that Dr. 



of Pennsylvania's Forest Reservation Rothrock pointed out in Pennsylvania. 



Commission, who with a strildng series Mr. Ayres' address was illustrated with 



of lantern pictures, showed the desolate pictures thrown on the screen showing 



condition on the hills of Pennsylvania scenes from the National Forests in the 



outside of the one million acres of White Mountains, the Southern Appala- 



forest reserve that that State has chians and on the Pacific coast, 



purchased. The force with which this It was the concensus of opinion of all 



address brings home the approaching present that larger and more important 



scarcity of timber in this country may efforts to conserve the remnant of 



be inferred from the fact that Mr. forests that remains in this country, and 



Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia, who had to replant on a large scale, must be 



previously heard this address in Wither- taken immediately by the Towns, State 



spoon Hall in that city, has had 10,000 and Federal Governments. 



copies printed, fully and attractively It was also pointed out that under the 



illustrated. It may be had by sending Weeks Act $3,000,000 did not become 



5 cents postage to Mr. Herbert Welsh, available, and that an effort should 



995 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. be made in the next Congress to 



Mr. S. B. Elliot, of Pennsylvania, read reappropriate this amount in order 



a very able article on "Our Forest Con- that the original plans of the Act may 



ditions and Needs." Mr. Elliot's deep be carried out in the White Mountains 



interest in forestry, his long experience and the Southern Appalachians. The 



as an active member of the Pennsylvania friends of forestry everywhere are urged 



Forestry Reservation Commission, and to lend their help to secure this measure 



his wonderful vigor and power of at the next session of Congress, 



thought and expression in the evening of The three sessions were presided over 



a life devoted to forest interests, gave by Mr. Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia; 



to his address a personal touch and force Mr. Frederick J. Hillman, of Springfield; 



that was very impressive. and Dr. Henry S. Drinker, President of 



Another strong address was that of Lehigh University and of the American 



Professor J. W. Toumey, Director of Forestry Association, 



the Yale Forest School, upon State and Hon. Robert S. Conklin, Commis- 



Town Forests. He pointed out that sioner of Forestry in Pennsylvania, 



it is unwise in this country to depend Mr. Walter O. Filley, State Forester of 



upon private individuals for a future Connecticut, and a number of others 



timber supply. This matter of saving prominent in the forestry movement 



the remnants of our forests must be were present. 



594 



