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ful guardian, could be trusted to prevent bad 

 legislation. Then, as a natural sequence to the 

 work that they had been doing, came the impulse 

 to attempt to preserve western forests generally. 



Meantime, another group of men was working 

 on forestry matters. These were E. A. Bowers, 

 B. E. Fernow and F. H. Newell members of the 

 American Forestry Association's Executive Com- 

 mittee and they were active in the Interior 

 Department and in Congress. Mr. Bowers was 

 Secretary of the American Forestry Association in 

 1889-1891, and was appointed in 1893 Assistant 

 Commissioner of the General Land Office; Fernow 

 was Chief of the Division of Forestry of the 

 Agricultural Department, and Newell was con- 

 nected with the Geological Survey. Fernow was 

 an educated forester and the father of many bills 

 to conserve the forests of the public domain; 

 Bowers and Newell were familiar with the West 

 and with the dangers that threatened the forest 

 there. Devoted to this work, they drafted a num- 

 ber of bills, which they submitted to Congress, 

 frequently appearing before committees, urging 

 that action should be taken to protect the forests. 



In 1887 William Hallett Phillips, a member of 

 the Club, had succeeded in interesting Mr. Lamar, 

 Secretary of the Interior, and a number of Con- 



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