SOCIETY AFFAIRS 



Meeting of the Society of American Foresters at Baltimore, Md. 



The Society of American Foresters will meet in conjunction with the 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, at Baltimore, December 

 27 and 28. The program, so far as it has been at present completed, is 

 shown below : 



Forest Problems of Europe. Col. H. S. Graves. 



Silvicultural Problems in Eastern Pulpwood Forests. Dr. B. E. Fernow. 



Forest Research and War. E. H. Clapp. 



The Timber Census in the Northeastern States. Prof. A. B. Recknagel. 



Gray Birch and White Pine Reproduction. Prof. J. W. Tourney. 



A Forest Policy for Louisiana. R. D. Forbes. 



The Effects of Destructive Lumbering on Labor. Prof. B. P. Kirkland. 



Factors Controlling the Distribution of Forest Trees in Arizona. G. A. 



Pearson. 

 Some Remarks on State Forest Policies. Prof. R. S. Hosmer. 

 The Logged-off Land Problem as a Part of the Reconstruction Program 



After the War. R. Zon. 

 Some Aspects of Silvical Investigation as a War-time Activity. C. Leavitt. 

 The New England Campaign to Stimulate the Production and Use of Wood 



for Fuel as a War Measure. Prof. W. D. Clark. 

 Marketing of Timber from Farm Woodlands. F. W. Besley. 

 Preliminary Results of Forest Experiments in Pennsylvania. Prof. J. S. 



Illick. 

 Some Future Possibilities in the Forest Industries. Prof. F. F. Moon. 

 The Lumber Industry and Its Relation to the War Program. Prof. R. C. 



Bryant. 

 War Lumbering in Scotland — Some Suggestions for American Forest Policy. 



E. C. Hirst. 

 Subject to be announced later. Prof. G. C. Morebeck. 



The annual business meeting of the Society will also be held at the 

 same time, and the annual reports of the various officers will be pre- 

 sented. 



Tine War Com.mitti:e of tin-: Sociictv of Ami:rican' Forkstkrs 



Since early spring the Society's committee, in co-operation with the 

 LI. S. Forest Service, the State foresters, State forestry associations, 

 and other agencies, has been engaged in a timber census of the New 

 England States and New York. In .April. .\. P>. Recknagel. forester 



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