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fostering of municipal and town forests. This work has been fur- 

 thered by an offer on the part of the Association to plant 5000 trees 

 at its own expense for any town setting up a town forest of 100 or 

 more acres. More than 100 towns have taken or are considering 

 action along this line. 



Having established the fundamentals of a State forest policy in 

 cooperation with the Commonwealth, the Association is now support- 

 ing a program of reforestation and reclamation in the hope that the 

 coming pinch of costly lumber may be in a measure mitigated. 



The present officers of the Association are : Harvey N. Shepard, 

 president; Ernest B. Dane, treasurer; Harris A. Reynolds, secre- 

 tary. The offices of the Massachusetts Forestry Association are at 

 4 Joy Street, Boston. 



MICHIGAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



The Michigan Forestry Association was founded at Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, in 1905 for the purpose of promoting a " rational and 

 practical system of forestry in Michigan, and the reclamation and use 

 of lands public or private, now unproductive, for the ultimate 

 advantage of the State and its citizens." 



The present officers of the Association are: President, Filibert 

 Roth, emeritus Professor of Forestry at the University of Michigan ; 

 Vice-president, A. K. Chittenden, Professor of Forestry, Michigan 

 Agricultural College; Treasurer, Robert Craig, Jr., Professor of 

 Forestry at the University of Michigan ; Secretary, Russell Watson, 

 Professor of Forestry at the University of Michigan. 



The Association from 1905 to 1910 was very active. It corrected 

 the methods of use and disposal of forest lands which reverted to the 

 State for taxes by having them closed to sale and used as State Forests. 

 It put through the State Legislature fundamental forestry laws. From 

 1913 to 1923 the Association languished. 



In 1923, with the awakening of a new struggle in forestry in the 

 State to have forestry affairs directed by trained, experienced 

 foresters having the interests of forestry at heart instead of by 

 politicians with little or no understanding of the problems, the Asso- 

 ciation again became active. It has supplied much forestry material 

 to the newspapers of the State, and has furnished the high schools 

 with a brochure of Forest Conservation for use in class work. 



