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Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Forestry Association 

 AT Wilmington 



The eleventh annual convention of the North Carolina Forestry 

 Association will be held in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday, Jan- 

 uary 27, 1923. The program is being arranged so that several of the 

 most important forestry problems novv^ before the people of the State, 

 such as highway planting, county cooperation in forest fire prevention. 

 State or Federal forest control, etc., will be brought up for discussion by 

 some of the leading authorities on these subjects. A plan is also on 

 foot to organize an excursion the following day into the longleaf pine 

 forests of New Hanover County. Within ten miles of Wilmington are 

 to be found some of the best second-growth longleaf pine forests in the 

 State, and an opportunity will be given for out-of-town delegates to 

 visit them. 



SOCIETY AFFAIRS 



Southern Appalachian Section of Society Being Organized 



At a meeting held in Asheville, N. C, October 28 and 29, the 

 decision was reached to organize a Southern Appalachian Section of 

 the Society. The proposed Section will cover the region centering 

 about the southern Appalachian mountains. 



A petition, together with the by-laws of the proposed Section, has 

 been submitted to the Executive Council of the Society for approval. 

 Officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows: Chairman, J. S. 

 Holmes ; vice chairman, Verne Rhoades ; secretary, C. F. Korstian. 



The entire session on October 29 was devoted to a symposium on 

 minimum silvicultural and protective requirements. The following 

 papers were presented : 



"The State and Minimum Silvicultural and Protective Requirements," 

 by J. S. Holmes, State Forester of North Carolina. 



"The Private Timberland Owner and Minimum Silvicultural and 

 Protective Requirements," by W. J. Damtoft, Champion Fiber Company. 



"National Forest Administration and Minimum Silvicultural and 

 Protective Requirements," by Ira T. Yarnall, Pisgah National Forest. 



"Problems in the Minimum Silvicultural and Protective Requirements 

 Study," by E. F. McCarthy, Appalachian Forest Experiment Station. 



A very interesting discussion followed the symposium, in which about 

 fifteen members and friends of the Society participated. 



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