Btrlaratum of 



(The Minnesota Forestry Association, in Convention Assembled, 

 made the following Declaration of Principles aud Outlined the Policies 

 it would Support.) 



It is a voluntary organization for the inculcation and 

 spread of a forest policy on a scale adequate to our 

 economic needs, and any person is eligible for member- 

 ship. It is indepndent, has no official connection with 

 any state department or policy, and is devoted to a pub- 

 lic service conducive to the prosperity of the whole state. 



IT ASSERTS that forestry means the propagation 

 and care of rorests for the production of timber as a 

 crop; protection of watershed; protection of crops from 

 the devastating influence of dry, hot winds; the eco- 

 nomic use of lands better adapted to the growing of 

 trees than to any other agricultural crop; the use of 

 forests for public "vacation spots;" refuges for game 

 and fur-bearing animals. 



IT RECOGNIZES that forestry is an industry limited 

 by economic conditions, that farmers in prairie regions 

 and owners of timbered and cut-over lands should be 

 aided and encouraged by investigations, demonstrations 

 and educational work; that the state government should 

 practice scientific forestry upon state forests for the 

 benefit of the public. 



IT DECLARES that no antagonism can exist between 

 the interest for the development and use of land fit for 

 tree growing and land fit for other agricultural crops. 

 The two industries are mutually dependent and must' be 

 developed equally but with this difference; the experi- 

 ence of countries old in the practice of forestry shows 

 that approximately 25 per cent of a commonwealth's 

 area needs to be used for timber crops to preserve an 

 economic equilibrium in its industries. 



(Continued on last page.) 



