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information which the forecaster can glean from the weather map, and if later 

 ohservations show tliat they are not likely to be justified, a timely correction ia 

 possible. 



TiiF. American roiiEsrr.Y Association. — This Association held its annnal meet- 

 ing December 29 and 30, at the Department of Agriculture and the National Museum. 

 The chief work of tht; Association at present is directed toward securing reservations 

 of public timber lands, which shall be placed under national administration. 



A memorial presented to the President of the United States during the summer 

 asked that he exercise the authority granted him under the act of Congress of March 

 3, 1891, by making reservations designated by the following names: Minnesota 

 National Park, Minnesota ; Pikes Peak Reserve, Colorado ; Tulare Reserve, California ; 

 Flathead and Marias River Reserve, Montana; and Pecos and Canadian River 

 Reserve, New Mexico. The lands comprised in these reservations are now being 

 examined to ascertain the desirability of reserving them. 



During the meeting a second memorial was presented to the President recom- 

 mending further reservations as follows: Crater Lake Reserve, Oregon; Lost Park 

 Reserve, Colorado; Turtle Mountain Reserve, North Dakota; and Sierra Ma<lre 

 Reserve, California. 



The general object of the proposed national forest reserve is not to withdraw these 

 lands absolutely from occupation or use, but rather to increase their usefulness and 

 the sum total of the productiveness of the territory, by making each acre do its 

 utmost for the benefit of our people. 



In the case of these reservations it is the purpose — 



To minimize the destruction of forest areas by fires and the wasteful and erro- 

 neous methods of forest use prevalent. 



To maintain and increase the lumber industry by a permanent and continuous 

 yield of forest products on non-agricultural lands, which under the present methoils 

 are laid waste by fires and made less proiluctive. 



To promote railroading and wood ma-nifacturing industries by providing constant 

 and increasing sujtplies of the raw material from cultivated forests, and creating a 

 home market for labor and supplies at these manufaet-ories. 



To cultivate and develop new growths of valuable timber wherever the matured 

 trees are cut for the market. 



To specially guard and protect the sources of our main rivers and lakes and thus 

 continue their flow for the benefit of the people at large. 



To prevent these lands from being taken for timber only and abandoned after 

 cutting the best, and also to secure bona fide settlements on the agricultural sections. 



Nor is it the purpose to prevent prospecting for minerals, opening of mines, or 

 other legitimate and rational use and development of these lands. 



To attain these objects the American Forestry Association urges not only the 

 reservation system, but at the same time the enactment of adminintrntivc laws which 

 will secure these objects and in a simple manner satisfy all local wants. 



One afternoon was devoted to the discussion of the reservation question, in which 

 the Secretary of the Interior made a full statement of his position towards it and 

 pledged his hearty cooperation. Papers were read as follows: By Mr. GitVord 

 Pinchot, on the Development of a Protective Forest Policy in Europe; by J. D. W. 

 French, on the Development of the Forestry Movement in the United States; by C. 

 K. Adams, President of Cornell University, on the Needs of Forestry Education in 

 the United States; and by B. E. Fernow, Chief of the Division of Forestry, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, on the Proper Management of the National Forest Reservations. 



Among the resolutions passed was the following: 



AVhereas the Association holds that the interests of agriculture are intimately 

 dependent upon a proper forest condition; ami 



Whereas the Government of the United States has recently made large additional 

 appropriations to the agricultural colleges and experiment stations : 



