ACTIVITIES OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS 665 



no account should I care to see the excellent work of the Northeastern 

 Foresters' Association interfered with ; but I should like to suggest for 

 your consideration the possibility of organizing a section of the So- 

 ciety which, perhaps, might live on amicable terms with your present 

 organization and supplement its work. It is needless for me to tell 

 you that the next few years bid fair to be crucial ones for forestry in 

 the United States. I am convinced, too, that the Society of American 

 Foresters should and will play an important part in the coming strug- 

 gle. All our nine sections are now engaged in discussing the possible 

 application of forestry to privately owned timber lands in their own 

 localities. New England and the Southeast are the only regions where 

 the Society is not represented by local organizations, and the foresters 

 of the Southeast have informed me that they will favor the formation 

 of a local branch next fall. 



Without question, the Society as a whole would be decidedly 

 strengthened by the addition of a New England, or a Northeastern, 

 section, for then it would have an official part of itself to whom it 

 might look for guidance and advice on the many vital forest issues in 

 this territory. 



It might also come about that a local section would result in tying 

 Northeastern foresters more closely with foresters and forest problems 

 in other parts of the country and with the national movement as a 

 whole. Mav I ask that vou think it over? 



