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by most of the speakers on the necessity and advantages of 

 greater state activity in forestry matters, and on Federal, State 

 and municipal planting on cut-over and barren non-agricultural 

 lands. The earlier expectations of forestry practice by private 

 owners have not been realized, and under the economic condi- 

 tions at present existing, or which can be anticipated in the near 

 future, intensive private forestry cannot be depended upon, be- 

 cause unprofitable. There were in attendance at the meeting two 

 men, who for many years have been intimately in touch with the 

 forestry and lumbering developments of the country. One of 

 them was Dr. B. E. Fernow^, who has been called the "dean of 

 American forestry," whom the "American Lumberman" re- 

 cently in an appreciatory write-up called "A veteran internation- 

 ally famous in the promotion of practical forestry," and the other 

 Captain J. B. White, one of the best known practical lumbermen 

 of the country, who has been called the "dean of American lum- 

 bermen." These two men by separate roads, but wdth the com- 

 mon ground of long experience seem to have arrived, indepen- 

 dently, at almost identical basic conclusions, to the effect that ex- 

 tensive forestry operations must be financed by the State or Fed- 

 eral government, and that artificial planting is the most practical 

 method of regeneration. It is a distinct step in advance when 

 authorities agree, and with the progress which has been made 

 during the last ten years, it is not out of reason to expect that 

 another decade will see the development of definite State forest 

 policies adequate for our needs. 



Another interesting fact was that as far as opinions were ex- 

 pressed, the proposition of Mr. Fernow that adequate provision 

 for the future supplies should be made largely or solely by arti- 

 ficial restocking on a large scale seemed also to meet with general 

 approval, the argument that natural regeneration at least in the 

 mixed forest with our uncertain climatic conditions in much of 

 our territory was even more unreliable than in Europe, seemed 

 also to find no opposition. 



It would, nevertheless, be desirable if, what unfortunately did 

 not occur at the meeting, a broad, professional or technical discus- 

 sion of opinions on the proposition could be had, and the Quar- 

 terly invites such discussion. 



