74 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



material furthering forestry or performed other service of public 

 nature in support of forestry. 



The Association, now composed of 320 members, 90 senior mem- 

 bers and 90 life members, has effectively supported movements for 

 state forestry in Maryland. 



MASSACHUSETTS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 

 By Harris A. Reynolds, Secretary 



Organized in 1898 in response to a growing public sentiment in 

 support of constructive forestry, the Massachusetts Forestry Associa- 

 tion has long been in the forefront of state forestry association 

 activities and has effectively supported many forestry activities of the 

 Federal Government. From a group of 23 men and women meeting 

 in a Boston business office, it has grown to a membership of 

 about 3000. 



Seeking to create a wider public interest in forestry through inter- 

 esting the people in the protection of their highway shade trees, the 

 Association made its first active work support of codification and 

 amendment of the State's shade tree and forest fire laws. It defended 

 the work of the State in fighting the gypsy moth and carried on a 

 publicity to increase the efficacy of the tree warden work of the 

 communities of the Commonwealth. 



The Association dedicated itself to a threefold program, seeking 

 to create a better system of preventing forest fires, to secure a more 

 equitable forest taxation law and to bring about State cooperation in 

 the reclamation of waste land for forest growth. To accomplish these 

 ends a State Forestry Department was needed, and the Association 

 secured the enactment in 1904 of the law creating such a department. 



During the succeeding years the Association brought about effec- 

 tive public action when the State gypsy moth work lapsed ; supported 

 the Weeks Law for the acquisition of Eastern National Forests; 

 secured a forest taxation law that has since been improved; was 

 instrumental in having the State embark on an active reforestation and 

 State Forest program by which 100,000 acres are to be bought and 

 reforested in 15 years with an appropriation of $3,000,000. During 

 the war the Association cooperated in recruiting forest regiments and 

 in wartime wood fuel work. 



One of the most recent activities of the Association has been the 



