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OKLAHOMA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



Although small in membership, the Oklahoma Forestry Associa- 

 tion is active in leading the work of securing the passage of adequate 

 forestry legislation in that State. The Association was formed in 

 1921 to promote forestry in all its aspects, seeking to encourage farm 

 forestry, cooperation between all interested in the forests, tree plant- 

 ing in general conservation and a forest policy for the State. It has 

 succeeded in bringing about sentiment in the State legislature with 

 prospect of success and has been instrumental in having a Depart- 

 ment of Forestry established at the Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College at Still water. The officers of the Association for the 1924 

 year are: W. S. Guthrie, Oklahoma City, president; Christian 

 Jensen, Stillwater, secretary ; W. A. Etherton, Stillwater, treasurer. 



PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 

 By F. L. Bitler, Secretary 



In the winter of 1885-1886 public-spirited citizens of Philadelphia, 

 impressed by the rapid destruction of the forests of Pennsylvania, and 

 recognizing the need of concerted action towards forest preservation 

 and replanting waste lands, held informal conferences, preliminary to 

 a public meeting, which was held in the hall of the Historical Society 

 on May 26, 1886, when a temporary organization was effected. A 

 permanent association was formed at an adjourned meeting on June 

 2, and a constitution adopted on June 10, 1886. The organization was 

 incorporated in 1889 and one section of the charter reads: 



" The objects of the Association are to secure and maintain a 

 due proportion of forest growth throughout the State ; to disseminate 

 information concerning the growth, protection and utilization of 

 forests; to show the great evil resulting from forest destruction, in 

 the decrease and unequal distribution of available water supplies, the 

 impoverishment of soil, the injury to various industries, the change 

 in climate ; to secure the enactment by the legislature of such laws, and 

 the enforcement of the same, as shall tend to increase and preserve 

 the forests of the State." 



In June 1886, the Association promptly commenced active work by 

 the issue of its organ, Forest Leaves, which has since been regu- 



