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The Board of Water Supply of the City of New York are pre- 

 paring plans for the establishment of forest nurseries in connec- 

 tion with the maintenance and betterment of the catchment basins 

 in the Catskill on which they depend for water supply. The work 

 is under the general direction of Mr. Alfred D. Flinn, Department 

 Engineer, while the operations on the ground are looked after by 

 Mr. A. Underhill, Landscape Gardener. It is understood that the 

 first reforestation work will be the planting of a strip several 

 hundred feet wide around the large storage reservoirs, the total 

 area aggregating between 8,000 and 10,000 acres. This is a 

 further advance in the adoption of policies of forest planting on 

 city watersheds in the East, in cities of Newark, N. J., Bridgeport, 

 Conn., and several others having taken up the work in the past few 

 years. 



The conservation movement in the United States seems to have 

 attained a firm foothold in the minds of the people, and it is en- 

 couraging that commercial interests are also giving the movement 

 antial backing. Conservation meetings are being held in 

 many parts of the United States, and consideration is being given 

 to ways and means of preserving the natural resources, which are 

 rapidly being destroyed through extravagant use. Five years ago 

 such meetings were almost unheard of, and would have created 

 hardly passing interest. Among the recent meetings* is that of 

 the Counties Committee of the California Promotion Committee, 

 which was held at Del Monte, Cal., on May 8. Among the promi- 

 nent speakers were Dr. Geo. C. Pardee, exGovernor of California ; 

 Dr. W. J. McGee, of the United States Inland Waterways Com- 

 mission ; O. H. Miller, Secretary of the Sacramento Valley De- 

 velopment Association ; F. F. Olmstead, of the United States 

 Forest Service ; G. B. Lull, State Forester of California ; W. W. 

 Mackie, United States Bureau of Soils ; and John E. Fox, Special 

 Director National Rivers and Harbors Congress. The West has 

 been noted for its interest in the conservation of waters and 

 forests, but it is noticeable that the movement has now passed 

 from a propaganda on a sentimental basis to one which actively 

 discusses ways and means for attaining the desired ends. The 

 realization that the prosperity of a region is absolutely dependent 

 on unfailing timber supply comes home with particular force to 

 * See account of Engineers' meeting, on p. 305 of this volume. 



