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Lyford will remain in charge of the activities of the Canadian 

 offices. 



Plans are under way for a National Conservation Exposition to 

 be held at Knoxville, Tenn., in September and October of next 

 year. A company has been organized to back the project and 

 citizens of Knoxville have contributed $100,000 as an initial fund, 

 and a Bill has been introduced into Congress providing for the 

 appropriation of $400,000 for a Government building and exhibits. 

 A National Advisory Board has been appointed to plan the details, 

 this board being headed by Gifford Pinchot as Chairman and by 

 Don Carlos Ellis as Secretary. Several prominent lumbermen 

 and others interested in the conservation movement are members 

 of the Board. The Exposition as planned would encourage and 

 foster the development of natural resources, particularly through- 

 out the Southern States, and in a broad way indicate the methods 

 by which the resources of the forests, lands, waters, and minerals, 

 might be more effectively utilized and conserved. 



The Board of Directors of the American Forestry Association, 

 at their quarterly meeting in May, varied from the usual program 

 of an official meeting in Washington or New York by making a 

 trip to the New York State forest nurseries and plantations in the 

 Adirondacks. The party, which comprised the Directors and 

 their friends, numbered about twenty, and included in it were 

 lumbermen. State Foresters, and professional business men who 

 are interested in forest work. The party left New York on the 

 evening of May 2 and spent the following day inspecting the 

 nurseries at Saranac Inn station and the plantations at Lake 

 Clear and Paul Smiths. The trip was very instructive, particularly 

 to those who are not familiar with the larger phases of refores- 

 tation operations, as the nursery work, packing and shipping, and 

 field planting were under way. Mr. C. R. Pettis, Superintendent 

 of State Forests, acted as host, and in the comparatively short 

 time available was able to show the party the more important 

 features of the State nursery and planting work. 



Dr. Joseph Roman Ritter Lorenz von Libuman, for many years 



