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Greeley Resigns From Directorship in the American Forestry 

 Association 



[Although Col. Greeley requested that the letter printed below be published 

 in the American Forestry Magazine, it never appeared there. The letter is there- 

 fore given publicity in the Journal. — En.] 



U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 Forest Sebvice 

 Washington 



March. 5, ig2i. 

 Mr. Chas. Latiirop Pack. 



American Forestry Association, 



J 21 4 Sixteenth St., Washington, D. C. 

 Dear Mr. Pack : 



I hereby tender my resignation as a Director of the American For- 

 estry Association. I am taking this action because of my radical 

 disagreement both with the change in organization of the Association 

 accomphshed at the February meeting and because of the manner 

 in which this change was effected. 



The American Forestry Association has stood to me as the agency 

 best equipped to lead, direct, and give effect to the sentiment in the 

 United States in support of forestry. The strength of the Association 

 has Iain fundamentally in its right to speak with authority as repre- 

 senting a considerable body of American people. That right the Asso- 

 ciation has now forfeited. From a representative organization, re- 

 sponsive to the sentiment and judgment of its members, it has become 

 a body deliberately organized for perpetuating control of the Associa- 

 tion and its activities by a small group of men regardless of how that 

 group may or may not represent the sentiment of the membership. 

 It is my conviction that no gain which the Association may make in 

 material things as the result of this change in its organization can 

 possibly oft'set the loss of its authority to speak as a representative 

 of a large body of American sentiment, democratically organized and 

 conducted. 



My second objection is based on the fact that this radical change in 

 the character of the Association, the most radical since the organize - 

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