LEADERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN FORESTRY 33 



very large share of these areas from the public domain as provided for 

 in the Act of 1891. 



President Franklin D. Roosevelt has unquestionably made the most 

 notable contribution of any single man in this country, and he was the 

 first American to receive the Sir William Schlich medal for meritorious 

 services in forestry. He is responsible for giving the people of the 

 American nation a new understanding and appreciation of the value 

 of our forests. In reconstructing and rebuilding our forests, both 

 public and private, through the Civilian Conservation Corps, National 

 Industrial Recovery Act, Soil Conservation Service, Tennessee Valley 

 Authority, Public Domain Grazing Act, Great Plains Shelterbelt 

 Project, enlarged acquisition policy for National Forests in the East, 

 creation of the Natural Resources Board, and many other projects 

 inaugurated in the first years of his administration, he has advanced 

 the cause of forestry more substantially than any other one man. 



Other men making notable contributions of thought, energy, and 

 action have been: Col. Henry S. Graves, second Chief Forester of the 

 United States, and organizer and dean of the Yale School of Forestry; 

 Col. William B. Greeley, third Chief Forester of the United States 

 and later secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation of Seattle; Charles Lathrop Pack of Lakewood, New Jersey, 

 and his son, Arthur Newton Pack, of Princeton, New Jersey, both of 

 the American Tree and Nature Associations, who have been active 

 and effective in educating the public regarding the importance of 

 forests and forestry; and George D. Pratt, active in the development 

 of wild life and recreational forestry, and president of the American 

 Forestry Association for several years. 



