THE AMERICAN FORESTRY CONGRESS. II5 



George K. Smith, Secretary, National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



Captain George P. Ahern, Chief, Phihppine Bureau of Forestry. 

 John A. McCann, Editor, National Coopers' Journal. 



E. S. Gosney, President, Arizona Woolgrowers' Association, 

 Flagstaff, Ariz. 



Fred P. Johnson, Secretary, National Live Stock Association. 



B. L. Winchell, President, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. 



J. T. Richards, Chief Engineer, Maintenance of Way, Pa. R. 

 R. System. 



L. E. Johnson, President, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. 



Hermann von Schrendk, Bureau of Forestry. 



Prof. J. A. Holmes, State Geologist of North Carolina. 



Seth Bullock, Supervisor, Black Hills Forest Reserve. 



T. J. Grier, Superintendent, Homestake Mining Co., South 

 Dakota. 



F. A. Fenn, Supervisor, Forest Reserves in Idaho and Montana. 

 Overton W. Price, Associate Forester, Bureau of Forestery. 



W. A. Richards, Commissioner, General Land Office. 

 Gifford Pinchot, Forester, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Dr. J. T. Rothrock, of the Penn. Reservation Commission. 

 Geo. H. Maxwell, Executive Chairman, The National Irriga- 

 tion Association. 



Secretary Wilson presided at three sessions of the convention ; 

 in one of his addresses he said it was the most representative body 

 of men that he had ever seen together. Students of forestry were 

 present from all parts of the country. Yale Forestry School ad- 

 journed and met in Washington during the convention, and about 

 sixty of their students were present most of the time. The sessions . 

 were largely attended, and there were present from 600 to 800. 



The evenings were taken up with informal discussions at Hotel 

 Shoreham, which were of much interest and attended almost ex- 

 clusively by those interested in teaching the subject of forestry. At 

 these meetings the forestry students were out in full force and 

 showed deep interest in their chosen profession. 



From the report received Pennsylvania seems to have come near- 

 est to accomplishing the work outlined by its Forest Association 

 than perhaps any other state. This state has now about 700,000 

 acres in its forest reserve. In order to provide rangers to care for 

 this reserve they have established a forestry school at which twenty 

 boys are now in attendance. Mr. Wirt, the head of this school, is 

 a bright young man, a graduate of the Biltmore Forest Academy, 

 whom I had the pleasure of being with for several weeks in Ger- 

 many. The work he is doing is such as to command the respect 

 of all who are interested in forestry. He is educating practical 

 forest rangers. 



