The Forestry Association and 

 Rangers' Meeting 



GEORGE E. Marshall, supervisor of the Minnesota 

 National Forest at Cass Lake, is the new president of 

 the Minnesota State Forestry Association. Mr. Mar- 

 shall was elected at the special meeting of the association 

 held the first week in March at St. Anthony ParK, this meeting 

 being the result of a resolution passed at the regular session 

 of the association last December. The time allotted for the 

 meeting was sc short that the election of officers was passed 

 over. 



Will Start Membership Campaign. 



And Mr. Marshall was in the harness as soon as the elec- 

 tion was over. He has great plans for the future work of 

 the organization, which has been without an active head for 

 some time. Among other things Mr. Marshall expects, with 

 the aid of the forest rangers, to increase the membership of 

 the Forestry Association to 1,000 or more within the next 

 few months. Already his campaign is under way, and even 

 before he left St. Paul for Cass Lake he had corralled several 

 new members. The association today has 170 active mem- 

 bers. From 170, to 1,000, that's the mark set, and to help 

 attain it, everyone of the old members have promised to try 

 and secure five more. 



There were a number of interesting addresses made at the 

 meeting, lack of space preventing their reproduction in full 

 here. 



Legislation Provides Chief Interest. 



Chief interest, of course, centered in the bills before the 

 state Legislature dealing with the forestry problems of the 

 state. The State Forester, reported on the status of these 

 measures, most of which have been discussed in earlier 

 issues of the North Woods. Committees of both Houses, he 

 told the association, had recommended all the forestry meas- 

 ures for passage. The bills embody amendments to the 

 present forest laws to increase the efficiency of the state for- 



