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with the most patriotic and far-sighted industrial organizations. The 

 action of the association will undoubtedly serve to stimulate other for- 

 est products associations in other States to follow suit. It is only by 

 the practice of forestry on private holdings, which contain about four- 

 fifths of the merchantable standing timber of the United States, as well 

 as on State and Federal forests, which constitute the remaining fifth, 

 that our forest resources will be adequately preserved. The demo- 

 cratic principles of our country indicate that this should be brought 

 about by private endeavor rather than by governmental regulation. 



In taking up this work. Professor Recknagel will have the benefit of 

 years of practical training and experience in similar work for the Gov- 

 ernment in the United States Forest Service, coupled with four years'' 

 experience in teaching forestry at Cornell University. He has special- 

 ized in forest management and is the author of a book on "The Theory 

 and Practice of Working Plans,'' the second edition of which has re- 

 cently appeared. He is a graduate of Yale College, in the class of 1904, 

 and of the Yale Forest School two years later. Subsequently he spent 

 a year in study and travel abroad. He is on the Editorial Board of the 

 Journal of Forestry and is a member of the Society of American 

 Foresters. 



