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(h) Extension work in forestry as a part of extension courses in 

 colleges and universities. Chairman, K. W. Woodward. 



(i) The character and extent of research in forestry by schools of 

 forestry and departments of forestry in colleges and universities. 

 Chairman, R. T. Fisher. 



The feature of this conference w^as the thoroughness with which 

 the reports were prepared and the constructive value that they offer 

 to those responsible for shaping forestry education in this country in 

 the immediate future. The reports are far too long and comprehen- 

 sive to be even outlined in this article. On the whole they show the 

 trend of American forestry education at the present time and they 

 indicate with much greater clarity than heretofore the deficiencies 

 which must be overcome in the future. 



Most of the Eastern and Middle Western schools, the U. S. Forest 

 Service, and many State departments of forestry were represented at 

 the conference. There were also present employers of foresters and 

 others interested in forestry education. The attendance for part or 

 for all of the two days' session was between fifty and sixty. As for- 

 esters from the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast regions were mem- 

 bers of some of the committees it can be said with fairness that the 

 conference was national in scope. 



The presence of Dr. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, 

 who participated in the conference, served in a real sense to link the 

 comparatively new field of forestry education to the educational insti- 

 tutions of the country as a whole. His generous offer to publish the 

 Proceedings of the Conference through the U. S. Bureau of Education 

 will give the results accomplished by the conference wide distribution 

 and help forestry education in attaining the position that it merits in 

 our educational system. 



J. W. Toumey was elected chairman of the conference and T. S. 

 Woolsey secretary. A committee on resolutions, a committee on 

 recommendations as to permanent organization, and an editorial and 

 publications committee were appointed early in the conference, each 

 of these committees to report the following day. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION 



The committee recommends : 



That the Society of American Foresters provide for the appoint- 

 ment of a permanent committee dealing with all matters relating to 



