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Illinois Indiana Ohio 



All Industries $2,250,000,000 $730,000,000 $1,785,000,000 



Wood-Using Industries 320,000,000 140,000,000 175,000,000 



WHEREAS, There is a large annual economic waste due to forest fires, 

 since, in the three states concerned, there has been no system of forest 

 fire protection developed ; 



WHEREAS, There is great need of an extensive and thorough cam- 

 paign for the purpose of educating the public to the extremity of the forest 

 situation and the necessity of action ; 



WHEREAS, The forestry situation and threatening condition of the 

 wood-using industries requires immediate action to the end that a policy 

 may be adopted and legislation enacted which will insure a permanent 

 supply of timber ; 



THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Tri-State Forestry Confer- 

 ence of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, convened at Indianapolis, on October 

 22nd, and 23rd, 1919, the Governors of the respective states concurring 

 therein, that the attention of the public and legislatures of the said states, 

 be called to the necessity of legislative action which will lead to the 

 assurance of a permanent timber supply. 



BE IT RESOLVED, That a system of taxation on timberlands be 

 adopted which will discourage premature and wasteful cutting and encour- 

 age forest renewal. 



BE IT RESOLVED, That the states should greatly increase their forest 

 holdings by purchase of young-second-growth and land adapted to refor- 

 estation, made possible by a bond issue of fifty to one hundred years' 

 maturity, so the burden may be equally distributed through generations. 



Urging that large holdings by the states will present a steady and 

 permanent source of supply which will stabilize timber prices. 



RESOLVED, That this conference urges upon our representatives in 

 congress the necessity for largely increased appropriations tinder the pur- 

 chase clause of the Weeks Act, to extend the area of national forests and 

 particularly into the hardwood regions of West Virginia, Kentucky and 

 Tennesse from which the three states concerned already draw a large por- 

 tion of their hardwood supply. 



Be it further urged that the federal congress appropriate adequate funds 

 for co-operation with the states in forestry, as it is doing in road building, 

 agricultural extension, vocational education and other activities, with the 

 especial object of encouraging farm forestry extension under the Smith- 

 Lever Act, reforestation of idle lands and protection against fire. 



BE IT RESOLVED, That the states launch an extensive and thorough 

 campaign through the press, the schools, the pulpit and mails, to arouse 

 the public to the need of a State Forest Policy and necessity of action 

 toward the assurance of a permanent timber supply. 



It is furthermore urged that forestry education should be made a pror 

 gressive part of the public school curriculum. 



