SOCIETY AFFAIRS 



At the invitation of Commissioner Bazeley and the Massachusetts 

 Department of Conservation the members of the New England Section 

 met at the Myles Standish Forest, Plymouth, on July 28, 29, and 30. 

 They were taken down over the road in automobiles and were given a 

 chance to see fire observation towers and town forest-fire apparatus. 

 At the reservation plantations were inspected and the fire protective 

 scheme studied. 



The formal meetings were given over largely to a discussion of the 

 minimum silvicultural and protective requirements needed to insure 

 continuous forest production in New England. Mr. Ralph Staebner 

 represented the Forest Service in these discussions. The members also 

 were given an opportunity to have a look at historic Plymouth. 



The meetings were exceedingly well attended with about sixty 

 present, forty of whom were members or prospective members of the 

 Section, eight guests from outside New England, and the balance em- 

 ployees of the Conservation Department. Twenty-six men were nomi- 

 nated for membership in the Society. 



At the last annual meeting of the Society provision was made for 

 the formation of an Educational Committee, a subcommittee of which 

 has been appointed to consider standardization in the classification of 

 forestry literature. This subcommittee is endeavoring to get together 

 as much material as it can on the classification of forestry literature. 

 Over a hundred copies of two proposed classification schemes have 

 been mailed to prominent librarians and foresters in the United States 

 and Canada soliciting their criticisms and suggestions, to which a con- 

 siderable number of replies have been received. If any foresters 

 who are interested in this subject have been overlooked the sub- 

 committee would greatly appreciate receiving their criticisms. Copies 

 of the classification schemes will be gladly furnished upon application 

 to the Chairman, C. F. Korstian, Appalachian Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Asheville, North Carolina. 



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