New York State Forestry Association, 



New York State has now an active 

 forestry association, the same being 

 formed at a largely attended meeting 

 in Syracuse on Jan. 16. While this 

 has been brewing for a long time it 

 is directly the outcome of the con- 

 ference held in Albany in May, 1912, 

 for the discussion of forestry pro- 

 blems. A committee was then ap- 

 pointed to consider the organization 

 of a forestry association, and Dr. 

 Hugh P. Baker, Dean of the New 

 York State College of Forestry, was 

 elected Chairman. During the year 

 this committee has sent out over a 

 thousand letters to persons who were 

 likely to be interested in the subject. 

 The committee was amazed at the in- 

 terest shown in the large number of 

 replies received. 



Though the organizing convention 

 was but a one day meeting it was 

 packed with more matters of impor- 

 tance than often go to the making 

 up of a two days' convention. There 



were several hundred people at the 

 morning session to hear Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot. There was a record attend- 

 ance at the Chamber of Commerce 

 luncheon, and the new association 

 started off with fifty-three charter 

 members. 



The officers elected were : President, 

 Dr. N. L. Britton, Director of the New 

 York Botanical Garden and Mu- 

 seums; Secretary, Dr. Hugh P. Ba- 

 ker; Treasurer, Albert T. Brockway, 

 of Syracuse, N.Y., and a strong exec- 

 utive committee. 



Dr. Baker, upon request, has been 

 so kind as to send an account of the 

 transactions of the meeting, and these 

 will be dealt with in future issues 

 of the Canadian Forestry Journal. 



The close supervision now being given to 

 the game side of forestry in Ontario was 

 indicated by the arrest and dismissal of a 

 game warden for breaking the law by having 

 skins illegally in his possession. He was 

 fined $450 for the offence. 



Another view of the nurseries at Cookshire, Quebec. 

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