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Secretary-Manager, Mr. Wilson Compton, before the Tri-State For- 

 estry Conference at Indianapolis, under the caption "Economic Aspects 

 of State Forests." The address attempts to answer four questions, 

 namely, "How much standing timber will probably be needed ?" "What 

 species of timber should be reforested?" "Where should the forests 

 be located?" "Who should grow and own the forests?" This last 

 question is, of course, the most important one, and the answer indi- 

 cates the attitude of the lumbermen. "Effort, misguided though it is, 

 to compel through legislation reforestation of private logged-off lands 

 would by no means solve the problem, even were such law enacted. 

 Trees can not be legislated into existence. Neither do laws change 

 men's minds as to what is profitable and what is not. Such legislation 

 would secure, not a replacement of the forests through private enter- 

 prise but, instead, the widespread reversion to the State of the pri- 

 vately owned cut-over lands." "A 'forest policy' that does not produce 

 forests is not a forest policy." The argument is for State forests: 

 "The public should pay for public benefits." 

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Southern Pine Association Contributes to Forest Research 



The National Research Council has received a gift from the South- 

 ern Pine Association of $10,000 to pay for the incidental expenses of a 

 coordinated scientific study by a number of investigators of the re- 

 growth of trees on cut-over forest lands with the aim of determining 

 the best forestry methods for obtaining the highest productivity. Al- 

 though some of these cut-over lands can perhaps be most advantag- 

 eously used for agricultural purposes there is a large/ acreage of them 

 which will yield better returns if devoted to re-forestration. 



Despite the large amount of forest study that is being conducted 

 under Government and State auspices, there is much need for addi- 

 tional investigation. This is well recognized by lumber men and is 

 especially indicated by the action of the recent meeting of the Southern 

 Forestry Congress at New Orleans in formally endorsing the scientific 

 projects of the National Research Council in regard to forestry. The 

 gift from the Southern Pine Association is made as a result of this 

 action. The investigation will be conducted under the advice of the 

 Research Council's special committee on forestry and will not duplicate 

 any present government or other undertakings along similar lines. 



With the November number the American Forestry magazine pu.b- 

 lishes besides its regular issue a "Foresters' Edition," in which tech- 



