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It is felt that the Congress has had and will have a large influence 

 in spreading the idea of State forestry organization throughout the 

 South. Both Georgia and Alabama took definite action toward 

 creating State forestry departments after the meetings of the Congress 

 in their capital cities. Several of the southern states not now organ- 

 ized are considering such action, and one of the main activities of the 

 Congress will be to further this development. The next meeting will 

 be held in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January, 1925. 



Besides Mr. Holmes as president, the Congress has the following 

 officers: C. B. Harman, secretary of the Southern Sash, Door and 

 Millwork Association, Secretary ; Joseph Hyde Pratt, chairman of the 

 executive committee. 



WESTERN FORESTRY AND 

 CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION 



By E. T. Allen, Forest Economist 



Organized in 1909 to apply the principle of cooperation between 

 forestry officials, timberland owners and the public in protecting and 

 properly utilizing forest resources, the Western Forestry and Conser- 

 vation Association ranks next to the United States Forest Service as 

 the largest forestry agency in the United States. It acts as a clear- 

 ing house and service bureau to afford central facilities for all forest 

 protective agencies private, state and federal in Montana, Idaho, 

 Washington, Oregon and California. 



State and federal forest officers are associate members and serve 

 on the committees of the association. Otherwise there is no indi- 

 vidual membership, the association being rather a sort of grand lodge 

 of thirty cooperative protective associations, distributed throughout 

 the states named. These safeguard about 30 million acres of forest 

 land, with a contributing acreage of 20 million acres. Their expendi- 

 tures run from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 a year, according to season 

 and hazard. 



The association conducts three departments forest economics, 

 protection and research each under a trained forester. Its forest 

 economist is responsible for carrying out its broad policy, its posi- 

 tion in legislative and like matters, and its contact and cooperation 

 with all agencies throughout the United States. The protection 



