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Indianapolis meeting the two fundamental handicaps of respon- 

 sibility and finance were disposed of. 



The first essential of providing a representative organization 

 to be responsible for the work, has been provided for by Presi- 

 dent Charles Lathrop Pack oflfering the endorsement and facili- 

 ties of the National Conservation Congress, and constituting the 

 regular forestry committee of the Congress a body to direct and 

 correlate the work of Sub-committees. To these Standing Com- 

 mittees, which are broadly representative, has been delegated 

 the work of collecting reliable information on the subjects as- 

 signed, and of working it up into concrete reports. The Forestry 

 Committee of Congress will receive and pass on all Sub-com- 

 mittee reports, and also from them select papers for the general 

 sessions of the next Conservation Congress. Important reports 

 involving broad questions of policy will be brought before the 

 Forestry Section of the Congress for endorsement, and after 

 acceptance given publicity through various channels. 



The second essential, that of finance has been liberally pro- 

 vided for by a special fund donated by the American Forestry 

 Association for the use of the Committee, part of it coming from 

 personal contributions of public spirited members. The Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association also offers its magazine and influence 

 in giving publicity to the Committee's findings. 



The Forestry Committee of the Congress as appointed by Presi- 

 dent Pack, consists of Henry S. Graves, Chairman, J. B. White, 

 E- T. Allen, W. R. Brown and E. A. Sterling. The last named 

 will act as Secretary of the Committee in order to relieve the 

 Chairman of details and follow up the work of the Sub-com- 

 mittees. 



The Sub-committees are made up of men representing the best 

 knowledge on each subject assigned. Their work will be out- 

 lined definitely to avoid repetition of endeavor, and directed and 

 correlated by the Forestry Committee. The sub-committee sub- 

 jects are as follows : i Publicity ; 2 Federal Forest Policy ; 3 State 

 Forest Policy ; 4 Forest Taxation ; 5 Forest Fires ; 6 Lumbering ; 

 7 Forest Planting; 8 Forest Utilization; 9 Forest School Edu- 

 cation ; 10 Forest Investigations. 



At the conference of investigators and specialists of the Branch 

 of Forest Insects of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Depart- 



