SOCIKTN' AFl-AIKS 2'il 



III order to furtlu-r tlie interchange of ideas and strive toward a 

 hroadcr view of forestry problems and their solution, and to promote 

 the spirit of international good fellowship and mutual understanding 

 among foresters, it is the sense of the Denver Section that the Society 

 of American Foresters should declare itself in favor of the attendance 

 of American students of forestry at Forest Schools of acknowledged 

 standing in other countries, notably the French Forest School at Nancy. 



That the Society should seek the endowment of scholarships for the 

 purpo-e of encouraging and making possible such attendance, and 

 should offer its good offices for the arranging or placing oT such schol- 

 arships and the selection of suitable candidates. 



That the recipients of such scholarships should be men of go k1 

 personality as well as scholastic attainments, who have given evidence 

 i)f interest in the practice of the profession of forestry which promises 

 to l)t permanent, who shall preferably have completed at least one year 

 of study of forestry subjects in an American forest school of recognized 

 standing, and who shall be able to at least read comprehendingly the 

 language of the country in which they propose to study. 



It is the ojiinion of the Denver Section that one or two scholarships 

 of the French Forest School at Nancy are particularly desirable. 



By a vote of the meeting these suggestions from the Denver Section 

 were referred for action to the Committee on Education. 



12 I'L'niJC CO.VTKOL Ol- I'kIV.\TE TIMBKRLAXDS ENDORSED 



The following resolution was adopted by a vote of 28 ayes to lo 

 noes : 



"lielieving that the i)ul)lic welfare in this and in succeeding genera- 

 tions requires that the United States be self-sustaining and independent 

 of all foreign sources of timber supjily. and that our forest lands should 

 therefore furnish in perpetuity ample supplies of timber and other 

 forest products to meet the needs of our people and our industries, and 

 believing that such continuous productions can be guaranteed only by 

 some degree of public control of the use of our forest resources the 

 Society of American Foresters, regardless of the opinion held by indi- 

 vidual members as to whether the Nation, States, or other competent 

 public agencies should e.xercise this control, desires to go on record as 

 unequivocally favoring the principle of iniblic regulation of the use of 

 forest lands." 



