SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 



STATE FORESTERS, AT CHESTERTOWN, N. Y., 



SEPT. 20-22, 1921 



The original decision to hold the meeting at Itasca Park, Minnesota, 

 at the invitation of President Cox, was changed early in September, in 

 favor of the Adirondack Region of New York, at the invitation of 

 the New York Conservation Commission. President Cox, who had 

 already gone far with plans for the meeting in Minnesota, unselfishly 

 agreed with the rest of the Executive Committee that the meeting 

 should be held in the white pine blister-rust region and devoted pri- 

 marily to a study of that disease. This decision was reached because 

 of an increasing realization not only of the extreme seriousness of the 

 disease if it is not adequately combated, but of the entire feasibility of 

 combating it at a very low cost as compared with the value of the 

 white pine stands, and of the very pressing importance of securing 

 adequate steps to this end by both the Federal Government and the 

 States. 



In the absence of President Cox, the meetings were presided over 

 by Vice-President Besley. 



The following State Forestry officials were present : . California, 

 Merritt B. Pratt, Deputy State Forester; Maine, Samuel T. Dana, 

 Land Agent and Forest Commissioner ; Maryland, F. W. Besley, State 

 Forester ; Massachusetts, W. A^. L. Bazeley, Conservation Commis- 

 sioner and State Forester, and H. O. Cook, Chief Forester ; New 

 Jersey, Chas. P. Wilber, Chief" Firewarden; New York, C. R. Pettis, 

 Supt. of State Forests, and Wm. G. Howard, Asst. Supt. of State 

 Forests; Ohio, Edmund Secrest, State Forester; Oregon, F. A. Elliott, 

 State Forester ; Pennsylvania, Gififord Pinchot, Commissioner of 

 Forestry; Vermont, W. G. Hastings, State Forester; Virginia, Chapin. 

 Jones. State Forester ; West Virginia, A. B. Brooks, Chief Protector,, 

 Forest, Fish, and Game Commission ; Wisconsin, C. L. Harrington,, 

 member of the Conservation Commission representing forestry. 



There were also present S. B. Detwiler, in charge of blister-rust 

 control, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, and a number 

 of other representatives of the bureau in blister-rust control, including 

 the State Agents for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts. 



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