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department serves all Pacific Coast agencies in developing forest 

 fire work, and equipment, publishing manuals and results, pooling 

 orders for equipment, issuing educational publicity material and 

 furthering field cooperation between all agencies. The research 

 department has been recently organized to conduct field studies of 

 all matters connected with forest land policy, such as reforestation 

 possibilities and requirements, land classification, growth and yield of 

 western tree species, cut-over land protection, brush disposal and 

 other questions. 



The Western Forestry and Conservation Association has grown 

 out of the pioneer cooperative patrol associations of Idaho and 

 Washington. Through its efforts this movement was extended 

 throughout the coast states, with close cooperation between the vari- 

 ous agencies concerned. E. T. Allen, formerly U. S. District Forester 

 for Oregon, Washington and Alaska, has been its manager and forest 

 economist since its organization, and also serves as forestry adviser 

 to the National Association of Lumber Manufacturers. The Protec- 

 tion Department is now under R. H. Chapler and the Research Depart- 

 ment under N. G. Jacobson. The officers elected for 1924 are: 

 President, A. W. Laird, Potlatch, Idaho; Vice-Presidents, C. R. 

 Johnson, California, G. B. McLeod, Oregon, E. G. Ames, Washing- 

 ton, W. S. Rosenberry, Idaho, Kenneth Ross, Montana; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, C. S. Chapman. 



SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE 

 By Newton B. Drury, Secretary 



The Save the Redwoods League was organized " to preserve the 

 oldest trees in the world," and incorporated in 1920 as a non-profit 

 corporation. Since then it has been largely instrumental in having 

 set aside through designation as parks, or through gifts and purchases, 

 more than 2800 acres of these giant trees in Mendocino and Humboldt 

 counties. Before the organization of the League the finest of the 

 few remaining groves of the Sequoia sempervirens south of Mendo- 

 cino County had been preserved, but nothing had been done to save the 

 groves where they reached their finest development in northwestern 

 California. The opening up of this region through the construction of 

 the railroads and highways was bringing about their rapid destruction. 



