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level you will need a wide acquaintance with the general life of the 

 nation, and a view-point both broad and high. * * * 



I believe that the foresters of the United States will create a more 

 effective system of forestry than we have yet seen. If not, gentlemen, 

 if you do not, I shall feel that you have fallen behind your brethren in 

 other callings ; and I do not believe that you will fall behind them. 



Nowhere else is the development of a country more closely bound up 

 with the creation and execution of a judicious forest policy. This is, of 

 course, especially true of the West, but it is true of the East also. For- 

 tunately, in the West we have been able, relatively to the growth of the 

 country, to begin at an earlier day, so that we have been able to establish 

 great forest reserves in the Rocky Mountains, instead of having to wait 

 and attempt to get Congress to pay large sums for their creation, as we 

 are now endeavoring to do in the Southern Appalachians. 



In the administration of the national forest reserves, in the introduc- 

 tion of conservative lumbering on the timber tract of the lumberman and 

 the woodlot of the farmer, in the practical solution of forest problems 

 which affect well nigh every industry and every activity of the nation, 

 the members of this Society have an unexampled field before them. 

 You have a heavy responsibility, — every man that does serious work, 

 work worth doing, has on him a heavy responsibility, — for upon the 

 development of your work the development of forestry in the United 

 States and the production of the industries which depend upon it will 

 largely rest. You have made a good beginning, and I congratulate you 

 upon it. Not only is a sound national forest policy coming rapidly into 

 being, but the lumbermen of the country are proving their interest in 

 forestry by practicing it. 



Notes from Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak. 



By H. Tullsen. 



As THE aspect of the vegetation is not necessarily the same at points 

 separated by only a few miles, in this region, I will state at the outset 

 that the remarks here made apply to the flora of the upper portion of the 

 valley of Medicine Root Creek, a branch of White River. This creek 

 flows through the high miocene hills and plains which belong to the 

 formation surrounding the Black Hills. The creek plain is very far 

 below the general level of the adjacent country. 



Our earliest flower is Cymopterus acaulis, called by the Ogallala Sioux 

 the Cheyenne turnip. It is to be found on the high plains about the 



