SOCIETY AFFAIRS 



Membership Matters 



The present requirements of the Constitution regarding membership 

 in the Society permit of rather widely varying interpretations. For its 

 own guidance in acting on candidates and for the guidance of members 

 in proposing candidates for admission to the Society, the Executive 

 Council has therefore formulated tentatively the following policy, 

 which is now under consideration and which appears to be favored by 

 a majority of the Council. It is being published prior to final adoption 

 by the Council for the information of and comment by the entire mem- 

 bership of the Society. Members are urged to express their opinion 

 as to the policy as at present outlined, and particularly to submit spe- 

 cific suggestions as to any revision that appears to them desirable, to- 

 gether with reasons therefor. The Executive Council is desirous of 

 following the wishes of the Society as a whole in the matter of elec- 

 tions, but obviously cannot do so unless it is informed as to what those 

 wishes are : 



1. Members and Senior Members must be foresters and must be 

 actually engaged in forest work at the time of election to the Society. 

 Distinction between the two grades is based entirely on experience and 

 achievements, the fundamental requirements as to training and char- 

 acter of work being the same for the two grades. 



2. "Foresters" are men who have either completed technical training 

 in forestry at a forest school of recognized standing or who have ac- 

 quired the equivalent of such training in other ways. In the latter case 

 satisfactory evidence must be presented that the training acquired 

 actually covers approximately the same ground as that included in a 

 forest-school course, and particularly the fundamental subjects of silvi- 

 culture and forest management. "Forest work" covers the four main 

 fields of forest management, forest protection, forest administration, 

 and forest utilization, and may include specialization in any one of 

 these fields, provided such specialization is closely linked up with forest 

 production. Thus forest entomology, forest pathology, forest eco- 

 nomics, grazing as related to forest management, and studies of the 

 mechanical, physical, and chemical properties of wood are all regarded 

 as forest work when the primary emphasis is laid on the forest end of 



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