representatives of those States and of the Forest Serv- 

 ice of the Department of Agriculture, the following 

 resolution was presented by Col. Eugene C. Massey. 

 former member of the Virginia State Legislature and 

 was adopted : 



' 'Forestry questions are National questions 

 as well as State and local questions; and it is 

 the sense of this conference that the National 

 Government should assume leadership in 

 these matters and aid and cooperate with the 

 several States in furnishing: adequate protec- 

 tion from forest fires, in perpetuating exist- 

 ing forests, and in reforesting devastated for- 

 est districts or regions, upon such conditions 

 as may seem just and necessary." 



Some of the delegates suggested that the Federal 

 Government should co-operate with the States in for- 

 estry work on lines similar to those prescribed in the 

 P'ederal Aid Road Act and the Smith-Lever Act pro- 

 viding for agricultural extension work, and should 

 make appropriations to be matched by the States. 



Timber Near End. 



"Timber in the East is rapidly approaching an end", 

 said Col. Henry S. Graves, chief of the Forest Service, 

 who presided. "If the Avar emergency had come fif- 

 teen years later, we would have had difficulty in meet- 

 ing our requirements for wood products except with 

 great delays and embarrassments due to shipments from 

 great distances. The high prices of lumber are largely 

 due to the depletion of our forests. In hundreds of 



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