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Missouri, a proper area of forests so maintained and cared for as to 

 furnish a supply of timber for future needs, and to make available all 

 the other benefits of health, pleasure and profit which forests afford." 



Since its formation the Association has directed itself to educa- 

 tional work in the form of increased publicity for forestry. It has 

 sponsored a constitutional amendment for forest tax reform and for 

 the creation of a State Board of Forestry. Both of these measures met 

 defeat on their first presentation but will be urged again upon 

 the Legislature. 



The officers of the Association are : Dr. Hermann Von Schrenk, 

 president ; J. W. Fristoe and Mrs. Marie Turner Harvey, vice-presi- 

 dents ; W. P. Gruner, treasurer and Frederick Dunlap, secretary. The 

 office of the secretary is at Columbia, Missouri. 



SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF NEW 

 HAMPSHIRE FORESTS 



By Philip W. Ayres, Forester 



The Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests was 

 founded in 1901 by Governor Frank West Rollins of New Hampshire, 

 who was for 15 years its first president. The Society has 2300 

 members, distributed from New Brunswick to Hawaii, all interested 

 in the preservation of the woods on the hills and mountains of 

 New Hampshire. 



The Society first suggested the National Forest in the White 

 Mountains, and took the lead in cooperation with many others, in 

 securing the passage of the Weeks Law for the purchase of national 

 forest land in the White Mountains and Southern Appalachians. 

 Thirteen million dollars have been appropriated by Congress for the 

 purchase of forest land in 10 states under this law, including 440,000 

 acres in the White Mountains National Forest. This is 46 per cent, 

 of the original plan. 



The Society first suggested the acquisition by the State of New 

 Hampshire of Crawford Notch, a tract of 600 acres, including the 

 wildest portions of the Notch, purchased for $100,000. It has 

 acquired 12 forest reservations of its own, including the famous Lost 

 River caverns, six miles west of North Woodstock. These reserva- 



