58 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



During its early years The American Forestry Association sponsored 

 the movement for the wise conservation of all natural resources. 

 From an organization of a few hundred members, two decades ago, 

 the Association has grown to a membership of more than 14,000 men 

 and women, located in every state in the Union. 



The Association is independent and non-commercial. It has no 

 affiliation with any state or federal departments. It is dependent 

 wholly upon its membership dues and contributions of those advanc- 

 ing its work. All its funds are devoted to furthering the objects for 

 which it stands. 



The broad purpose of the Association is to bring about through 

 the development of enlightened public sentiment, a local and national 

 appreciation of American forests and trees and of all the vital Ameri- 

 can interests which they represent. It seeks to advance national and 

 local measures which will aid in meeting the permanent forest needs 

 of the nation. It provides a means by which every citizen may 

 definitely identify himself with the movement to conserve and rebuild 

 our forests and to pass on to our children a wooded out-of-doors 

 comparable in some degree with that which has built the nation and 

 has supplied the vigor and ideals of its people. 



Soon after its organization the Association began the publication of 

 a periodical, which later was published under the name of American 

 Forestry. On January i, 1924, the name of the Association magazine 

 was changed to American Forests and Forest Life. For years it 

 has been, and still is, the only popular magazine of national scope 

 devoted exclusively to forests. The magazine is the Association's 

 principal medium of disseminating educational material in popular 

 form to the public, and of stimulating public interest in the forests 

 of the nation and the many things for which they stand, including 

 wild life conservation and forest recreation. 



The Association stands for a national forest policy which will be 

 adequate to assure the people of the United States forests, in the 

 future, equal to their needs. Its program calls for greatly increased 

 appropriations by the federal government to be used in the acquisition 

 of forest lands under the Weeks Law. The Association is working 

 for a federal appropriation of one hundred million dollars expendable 

 during the next ten years in the acquisition of forest lands in the East. 

 It is likewise working for a national and state program of better forest 



