The Boone and Crockett Club 



American Forestry, but formerly as Conservation, 

 appeared in October, 1909, the statement that Mr. 

 Cleveland established the first national forests. 

 This brought out from Robert Underwood John- 

 son, of the Century Magazine, a letter pointing 

 out that, in fact, the first national forests were 

 established under President Harrison's administra- 

 tion, and Conservation, now American Forestry, 

 made the correction, but did scant justice to the 

 excellent work in forestry accomplished by Secre- 

 tary Noble and President Harrison. 



The men of to-day, anxious for results, and 

 absorbed in their own affairs, have quite forgotten 

 those earlier men who made possible the work 

 which the men of to-day are doing. Too often 

 those who start a great movement and give it its 

 initial impetus are lost sight of and receive not even 

 the meagre justice of a mention of the part they 

 played when struggling, almost alone, to bring 

 about great reforms. Happily, in this case, the 

 story of what General Noble had done was told 

 with some fullness in the Forest and Stream of 

 March 9, 1893, at the time General Noble went 

 out of office. The article entitled "Secretary 

 Noble's Monument" was recently reprinted in 

 American Forestry, which says, with amusing 

 naivete, it "seems like an original source of ancient 



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