MICHIGAN 



ROADS ^FORESTS 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY, 1909. 



Michigan Forestry Association. 



The Michigan Forestry Association was organized in Grand Rapids August 30, 1905, having for its object the promotion of a ra- 

 tional system of forestry in Michigan. The society is managed by the following roster of officers: President, John H. Bissell, of Detroit; 

 Vice-President, Morrice Quinn, Saginaw; Secretary, Henry G. Stevens, Detroit; Treasurer, W. B. Mershon, Saginaw, W. S. Board of 

 Directors S. M. Lemon, Grand Rapids; H. N. Loud, Au Sable; Thos. B. Wyman, Munising; E. C. Nichols, Battle Creek; R. Hanson, Gray- 

 ling; Geo. N. Brady, Detroit. 





PEOPLE'S INTEREST IN FORESTRY. 



The doubt occasionally arises in the minds of 

 sonu- well-meaniiii' people as to the real, 

 actual working interest in forestry existing 

 among our people. Resolutions have been 

 pas-ed liy a great many different clubs belong- 

 to the Federation of Women's Clubs of 

 Michigan which ought to remove the last ves- 

 <>! iloubt and should convince anyone that 

 the people know what they \vant. and that they 

 want legislation along well defined, clear-cut 

 lines. And surely they ought to have it. It is 

 interesting that the same body, the Fed- 

 eration ot' Women's Chilis, at the general mcel- 

 ing at l!ay City, in I'.ioii. prepared a mammoth 

 petition which was signed by several hundred 

 of our be-t w oin on and men in the -late, advo 

 eating these same measures. 



Following is the resolution: 



\\ herca.-. I )tir Siate of Michigan has suffered 

 : loss oi life through the fore-t 

 and 



Whereas, Greal property loss, through our 



industries being compelled to import forest 



incts and to sell at a sacrifice the dead 



timber, has resulted to the people of Michigan; 



and 



Whereas. The Commission of 1'nquiry, au- 

 ;/ed by the last legislature, has made an 

 able report on our forestry condition. 



Therefore be it resolved, That we approve 

 the recommendations made by the Commission 

 <.f Inquiry, and request the present legislature 

 to give the report its most careful considera- 

 tion and act without loss of time in passing 

 -uch laws as the Commission of Inquiry has 

 recommended in order to prevent future recur- 

 rence of the holocaust and loss of the past 

 year. 



Some of the clubs which have endorsed the 

 . resolution or one along the same lines 

 are the Detroit Study Club. Detroit Federation 

 of Women's Clubs, Hypatia Club. Twentieth 

 Century Club, Clio Club. Detroit Sorosis. Study 

 Club for Kxpression, Women's Research Club, 

 Detroit Review Club. Shakespeare Study Club, 

 Detroit Woman's Press Club, and Xorthville 

 Woman's Club, of Northville. The above 

 named clubs represent a membership largely 

 in excess of l.ooo. Fvery one of the clubs has 

 appointed a forestry committee which is taking 

 an active interest in the progress of forestry 

 legislation. 



ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND. 



In front of the Hutchinson residence on 

 State street in Menominee is a tree which is 

 the only one of its kind in the northern penin- 

 sula and doubtless in the Northwest. It is a 

 Japanese chestnut and is peculiar to Japan. 

 The tree is one brought direct from the island 



kingdom and carefully planted and nursed un- 

 til it became acclimated to the rough winter 

 season which it never had to experience in its 

 home forest.-. The wood is fairly close 



grained but it requires great care to keep the 

 tree from being broken by the wind. Some 

 time ago a heavy storm split the tree from its 

 top almost to its base and the owner despaired 

 of keeping it alive. As a last resort he ran 

 an iron holt through it and bolted it tightly 

 ;lier while the sap was yet soft. The tree 

 has grown together again and the bolt is im- 

 bedded -in the wood which has grown over it. 

 The tree i- a distinct curiosity locally and 

 ha- been viewed by many interested horicul- 

 turists. 



The Haunted Lake. 



I'.y JAMKS WF.l'.KK LINN. 



X'ight on the haunted lake. 



And hark! where the shores In 

 Mysterious murmurs wake 



\s the ghosts come crowding in. 

 Giant-like in the gloom. 



In long, dim, steadfast line-, 

 F.ach with its nodding plume 

 The ghosts of the slaughtered pines! 



What sound is that in the hn-h. 



Like the echo of a sigh? 

 The wind in the underbrush. 



Tin- white owl's far-off cry, 

 The lapping waves on the shore? 



Xone. it is none of these. 

 I tut a voice that live- no more, 



The old, old voice of the trees! 



( Jiicc they possessed the land, 



Kings of magnificent peace, 

 Seeing on every hand 



Their lordly ranks increase. 

 Then came the foe at last, 



Greedy, and cunning to strike, 

 And they perished where he passed, 



The old and the young alike. 



Night on the shrouded lake! 



Where the barren shores begin 

 The woods are all awake 



As the ghosts come crowding in. 

 Look! in the open space 



Where the pitiful moonlight shines 

 The ghosts of a vanished race, 



The ghosts of the slaughtered pines! 

 Youth's Companion. 



ENDORSES COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. 



The Business Men's Association of Mar- 

 quctte has adopted the following: 



"Resolved, That the members of the Queen 

 City Commercial club, of Marquette, Michigan, 

 heartily endorse and approve the report made 

 by the commission of inquiry, tax lands and 

 forestry, for Michigan, and unite in urging the 

 senators and representatives from the upper 

 peninsula to use their best efforts to secure 

 the adoption, by the present legislature, of the 

 recommendations made by this commission." 



COMMITTEES FOR CONSERVATION 

 WORK. 



The joint committee on co-operation, repre- 

 senting the States and the Federal govern- 

 j ment. to make plans for further work for 

 the conservation of the natural resources, has 

 been named by Gifford Pinchot, chairman of 

 the National Conservation Commission, who 

 was authorized to do so by the second con- 

 ference of governors recently held in Wash- 

 ington. 



Six of its members are chairmen of the state 

 conservation commissions and three are mem- 

 bers of the National Conservation Commis- 

 sion, besides the chairman and secretary of 

 the national body. The membership of the 

 committee is as follows: 



. Representing the State Conservation Com- 

 missions J. M. Teal, of Portland, Ore.; form- 

 er Senator Paris Gibson, of Montana; W. K. 

 Kavanaugh, of St. Louis; Senator W. H. Mil- 

 ton, .of Florida; Prof. Frank W. Rane, of Bos- 

 ton, and O. J. Salisbury, of Salt Lake City. 



Representing the National Commission 

 Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota: Gov. 

 Newton C. Blanchard, of Louisiana, and for- 

 mer Gov. George C. Pardee, of California. 



These men were selected with a view to 

 having all sections of the country represented 

 on the joint committee on co-operation. All 

 have takn a very active part in the conserva- 

 tion movement and are familiar with the situa- 

 tion in their own districts. 



It is planned to have the various State con- 

 servation commissions and the conservation 

 committee of the national organizations send 

 in to the committee their ideas of the most 

 effective methods by which the conservation 

 movement can be advanced in their States and 

 by the organizations which they represent. In 

 this way it is expected to work out a compre- 

 hensive scheme of action to embody all the 

 be-t ideas of the participants in the campaign 

 for conservation. There are now thirty-six 

 conservation commissions and more than forty 

 conservation committees appointed by national 

 organizations. Through the action of this 

 joint committee on co-operation the efforts of 

 all these will be combined and rendered more 

 effective. 



