our work fully from time to time. If any one wants informa- 

 tion, he may obtain it from either of these authoritative 

 sources or from our records direct. There is no need for 

 straining the imagination as a few have done. The law au- 

 thorizes and requires the Forester to carry on educational 

 work and advocates measures for the establishment of scien- 

 tific forestry in the management and promotion of the forest 

 resources of the State. There can be no question, therefore, 

 as to our authority to expend money to inform the public 

 relative to a movement to bring about conservative instead 

 of wasteful logging on certain State lands. As a matter of 

 fact, this Department could afford to expend very little for this 

 purpose; approximately only thirteen hundred dollars was so 

 expended, and this incidental to other necessary work. For 

 example, we had to increase our office force in order to handle 

 the enormously increased correspondence which grew out of 

 the public interest in the State Forests amendment. We 

 had to make reprints of certain of our publications because of 

 the demand for them ; and the Rangers, while engaged in their 

 regular work and while showing forestry exhibits at county 

 fairs, incidentally posted up notices furnished by the Forestry 

 Association. This is the nature of the expenditures which the 

 Forest Service made in order to acquaint the people with the 

 amendment, the purpose of which was to preserve some of 

 our fast-disappearing forests. We are proud of what we did 

 even though it was small in comparison with the work done 

 by the Forestry Association. The Game and Fish Commission, 

 the Department of Public Instruction and other State Depart- 

 ments deserve credit also, for they did the same kind of work 

 as was done by the Forest Service in behalf of a measure 

 which is non-political and means much for the public good. 



Politics does not have any part in the work of the Forest 

 Service. Our appointments are made without any reference 

 whatever to political views of the appointees. I never could 

 figure out why a man should make a better Ranger or other 

 forest officer because of his being a Republican, Democrat or 

 Socialist. 



The State Forestry Association is a voluntary association 

 of individuals from all parts of the State who are interested 



