AMERICAN NATURE ASSOCIATION 85 



AMERICAN NATURE ASSOCIATION 



Organized in 1922 and dedicated " to stimulate public interest 

 in every phase of Nature and the Out-of -Doors, and devoted to the 

 practical conservation of the great Natural Resources of America," 

 the American Nature Association is active in support of a constructive 

 forest policy as a part of its conservation program. Through its 

 monthly publication, Nature Magazine, the Association not only 

 actively stimulates interest in and affection for wild life, but devotes 

 space to the advocacy of the important fundamentals and phases 

 of the forestry problem. 



Among the conservation issues that the Association has success- 

 fully brought before the public have been the progressive extermi- 

 nation of the black bear by automobilist-hunters, the depletion of the 

 American antelope, the danger of the extinction of the American 

 Eagle by the paying of bounties for shooting the national bird, the 

 destruction of wild flowers, the need of bird protection, etc., etc. The 

 Association has as a policy the creating of a public appreciation of the 

 wonders of Nature and the out-of-doors, approaching the goal of 

 protecting natural resources in this way. 



In the field of forestry, the American Nature Association has 

 stood behind the formation of a national forest policy. It has been 

 represented before various bodies in the advocacy of this policy. 

 It urged the passage of the McNary-Clarke Forestry Bill, filed in 

 Congress as a result of the investigations of the Select Committee of 

 the United States Senate on Reforestation. The Association seeks 

 to interest its members through its magazine in forestry from the 

 popular point of view. 



The American Nature Association had a membership of 70,000 

 on April first. The officers of the Association are Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, president; Percival Sheldon Ridsdale, treasurer; Arthur 

 Newton Pack, secretary ; R. W. Westwood, assistant secretary. Mr. 

 Ridsdale is editor of Nature Magazine. The offices of the Associa- 

 tion are at 1214 i6th Street, Washington, D. C. 



