414 United States. 



also much other information of value on forestry sub- 

 jects. 



Other local or State forestry associations were formed 

 from time to time, more or less under the lead of the 

 national association, and exist now in almost every 

 State, while several other societies, like the Sierra Ne- 

 vada Club and the Mazamas of the Pacific coast, and 

 State horticultural societies in various States, made the 

 subject one to be discussed and to be fostered. The 

 most active of these associations, since it was formed in 

 1886, publishing also a bi-monthly journal, Forest 

 Leaves (at first less frequently), is the Pennsylvania 

 State Forestry Association, which has succeeded in 

 thoroughly committing its State to a proper forest 

 policy, as far as official recognition is concerned. 



Usually as a result of this associated private effort, 

 the States appointed forestry commissions or commis- 

 sioners. These commissions were at first for the most 

 part instituted for inquiry and to make reports, upon 

 which a forest policy for the State might be framed. 

 Others have become permanent parts of the State or- 

 ganization, with executive, or merely educational func- 

 tions. Such commissioners of inquiry were appointed 

 at various times in Connecticut (1877), New Hamp- 

 shire (1881 and 1889), Vermont (1882), New York 

 {1884), Maine (1891), New Jersey (in Geological 

 Survey 1894), Pennsylvania (1893), North Carolina 

 (in Geological Survey 1891), Ohio (1885), Michigan 

 (1899), Wisconsin (1897), Minnesota (1899), North 

 Dakota (1891), Colorado (1885), California (1885). 

 y/ It was but natural in a democratic country that these 

 movements sometimes became the play balls of self- 



