SOCIETY AFFAIRS 221 



December 28. Forenoon, 9 to 12.30 

 Forest Ecology, Experimental Forestry, etc. 



Forest Formations in British Columbia H. N. Whitford 



Forest Research and War E. H. Clapp 



Preliminary Results of Forest Experiments in Pennsyl- 

 vania Prof. J. S. Illick 



Some Aspects of Silvical Investigations as an After-the- 

 War Activity Clyde Leavitt 



Factors Controlling the Distribution of Forest Trees in 

 Arizona G. A. Pearson 



Gray Birch and White Pine Reproduction Prof. J. W. Tourney 



Afternoon, 2 to 5.30 



Business Meeting 



The Annual Reports of Officers and other Business of the Society 



Committee on Meetings, /;; Charge, 

 J. A. Ferguson, Chairman. 



]\Iost of the papers brought out considerable profitable discussion, 

 although the time was too limited to permit much discussion for some 

 of the subjects. 



A motion was passed that Bryant's paper, entitled "The Lumber 

 Industry and its Relation to the War Program," be printed in the 

 Journal of Forestry; also that the War Committee be continued, 

 under the name of the Timber Census Committee, for the purpose of 

 continuing the census. 



A resolutions committee was appointed by the chairman, consisting 

 of Mr. Peters, chairman ; Mr. Ayres, Mr. Besley. 



The committee drew up the following resolutions, which were 

 adopted by the Society : 



I. Whereas a sustained timber supply adequate in quantity and diversified in 

 quality is alike essential to national defense in war time and national progress in 

 time of peace; and 



Whereas the growing of timber to the larger sizes involves an investment too 

 long in time, with too great hazards and too low a rate of final return for pri- 

 vate capital to undertake; and 



Whereas only 30 per cent of the present forest area and but little more than 

 20 per cent of the existing timber stand is in public forests in the United States— 

 a wholly insufficient basis for the future timber supply of the country: therefore 

 be it 



Resolved, That the Society of American Foresters urge the immediate initia- 

 tion of a permanent poHcy of national and State or other public acquisition of 

 forest land until the acreage of publich- owned land capable of producing timber 



