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good faith, alters the situation. As long as the Board of Directors 

 carries out energetically and fairly the reco;nmendations of the con- 

 ference, there can he no quarrel between it and the friends of forestry. 

 On the contrary, the Association should find foresters ready to help to 

 make the Association and its magazine the most influential factors in 

 the promotion of forestry in this country. 



There doubtless will remain some questions in the minds of some 

 members of the Association. Whether they are justifiable or not after 

 the adoption of the conference report the Journal does not presume 

 to decide. The work of the Journal is done and the incident so far 

 as the Journal is concerned is closed, it is free once more to devote 

 its entire space to the discussion of technical forest problems. 



The Passing of the Commission of Conservation of Canada 



It will be of interest to foresters generally to record the passing of 

 the Commission of Conservation of Canada. 



The Commission was established in September, 1909, following the 

 enactment of legislation in May of that year by the Dominion Parlia- 

 ment. This action was a direct outgrowth of the great conservation 

 movement which originated in the United States under the leadership 

 of President Roosevelt, Gififord Pinchot, and others, a feature of 

 which was the Conference of Governors held at the White House, 

 Washington, May 13-15. 1908. The action of the Conference led to 

 the appointment by the President of the National Conservation Com- 

 mission during the following month, under the chairmanship of Gifford 

 Pinchot, and to the holding of the Joint Conservation Conference at 

 Washington, December 10. 1908, at which was endorsed the voluminous 

 and exhaustive report of the National Conservation Commission. It 

 was, however, the holding of the North American Conservation Con- 

 gress, at Washington. February 18 and 19, 1909, which gave the spe- 

 cific impetus needed f(jr the establishment of the Commission of Con- 

 servation of Canada. The Canadian delegates were Hon. Sydney 

 Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Clififord Sifton, and Dr. H. S. 

 Beland. M. P. Mr. Sifton. later Sir Clifford Sifton, became the chair- 

 man of the Commission of Conservation. 



It may be noted that the Canadian Commission, with a life of some 

 12 years, survived for a much longer period than did the National 

 Conservation Commission in the United States. 



In the legislation establishing the Commission of Conservation, it 

 was provided that 'Tt shall be the duty of the Commission to take into 



