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of young trees, slash disposal, curtailment of waste, fire prevention 

 and investigation of areas more suited for forest than farm. 



Mr. Clarke says : " Keewaydin feels that it is necessary to educate 

 and interest our future leaders. The fastest growing tree requires at 

 least a generation to reach maturity. Our Keewaydin boys can start 

 a seed or seedling and live to see it attain commercial possibilities." 



Many other camps encourage acquaintanceship with the trees 

 in the surrounding forest, stimulating an affection for them in the 

 campers. Some are planning to embark on an active forestry work, 

 adding to the wooded assets of the camp as well as educating along 

 this important line. 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK FOUNDATIONS 



Convinced that the future success of the forestry movement 

 depends primarily upon an aroused and active public sentiment, 

 Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, 

 has established forestry foundations in seven schools of forestry. 

 These are annual awards, made by the institutional authorities them- 

 selves and consisting of the annual income of $50 to $100 from per- 

 manently invested funds held in trust in each case in high class bonds. 



Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation Prizes have been 

 established in the following schools of forestry : 



New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse University, Syra- 

 cuse, New York; College of Forestry, University of Washington, 

 Seattle, Washington; The Division of Forestry, University of Cali- 

 fornia College of Agriculture, Berkeley, California; Department of 

 Forestry, The Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsyl- 

 vania ; Department of Forestry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan ; Department of Forestry, New York State College of Agri- 

 culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Yale University 

 School of Forestry, New Haven, Connecticut. 



" Promoting the cause of forestry as it relates to the public, or 

 from the public point of view," is the fundamental aim of Mr. Pack's 

 prizes. They are given to the forestry schools outright, existing as 

 forestry foundations but administered and awarded by the authori- 

 ties themselves. 



" It is my hope and desire," Mr. Pack says, in explanation of his 



