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reasons it has seemed that there was 

 a large amount of work to be done at 

 least in an educational way and need 

 for a society of men and women to .do 

 that work. It was for these reasons 

 that the Forestry Society of the State 

 of New York was organized. Its 

 members are giving some of their time, 

 some of their money and lending their 

 influence for the advancement of real, 

 true forestry work in this State without 

 hope of fee or reward, except that re- 

 ward that always comes in doing good. 

 The society cordially invites all men and 

 women who desire to help in this work 

 to become members of the society and 

 lend a helping hand. There is enough 

 work for all to do. Its membership 

 should be very large and widespread. 

 The society should exert a good and 

 strong influence on the next Constitu- 

 tional Convention and upon every suc- 

 ceeding legislature. In relations to this 

 matter the Constitution should be 

 changed some, but with great care and 

 its new provisions should be carefully 

 scrutinized before they are submitted 

 to the people. New and more liberal 

 statutes should be enacted in relation to 

 taxation of forest covered land and for 

 its protection from fire throughout the 

 State. Looking ahead for ten years to 

 come, that which should be done and 

 the policy to adopt and follow generally, 

 may be summarized as follows : 



1. That so far as the statutes control 

 and the State has management, forestry 

 work should be placed in charge of a 

 separate department, with one commis- 

 sioner at its head, with a capable, 

 trained forester as superintendent, 

 assisted by such other trained foresters 

 as may be necessary and the manage- 

 ment should be kept out of politics. 



2. A better understanding among the 

 people of what forestry means. 



3. More tree gardens, both public and 

 private and planting on a much larger 

 scale, generally throughout the State. 

 Each municipality should plant up all 

 vacant places on its watershed. 



4. On the State lands there should be 

 a careful examination and record made 

 of the location, extent and value of 

 camp sites. 



5. There should be an accurate and 

 careful appraisement of State lands 

 outside of the park lines. 



6. The Constitution should be 

 changed to permit the leasing of camp 

 sites within the State reserves. 



7. The change of the Constitution 

 should also permit the carrying on of 

 conservative lumbering on the land that 

 should be lumbered, and the building of 

 necessary roads. 



8. The profits from lumbering on 

 State land, where lumbering should be 

 done, should be used to increase the 

 State's holdings in the parks, for better 

 fire protection and for reforesting de- 

 nuded lands. 



9. The tax law should be changed 

 and made liberal enough to permit 

 owners of timbered lands to hold the 

 timber and conduct cutting 'operations 

 in a scientific manner under best, mod- 

 ern methods, for continued reproduc- 

 tion and to induce all owners of land 

 suitable for tree production to plant 

 commercial forests. 



10. We should have a state wide 

 forest fire service under laws giving 

 the State department power to create 

 fire districts in forested sections of the 

 State where necessary and to build 

 observation stations, connect them up 

 with 'phones and to establish a fire 

 patrol anywhere in the State where 

 needed. 



11. State lands within the "Blue 

 line " should be inventoried and classi- 

 fied at least in two classes; "A" where 

 lumbering should be done ; " B " where 

 lumbering should not be done, as on 

 mountain tops. 



12. Instruction should be given in 

 every school, in the "A B C's " of 

 forestry and the value and uses of trees. 

 The Boy Scouts and boys in every 

 school should be encouraged to plant 

 a considerable number of commercial 

 trees each year on land owned by the 

 town, city or village. Towns, villages 

 and cities should acquire lands suitable 

 for the work and dedicate them to that 

 purpose. This ought to result in plant- 

 ing 30,000,000 trees each year; that 

 means 300,000,000 planted in ten years 

 by this way alone. 



