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and editorial responsibilities his opportunities in the lecture field are extremely limited. 

 We need a a qualified staff with some specialists available in different sections of the 

 country so that we can make a creditable offering. Opportunities will not be wanting 

 when we are able to supply the demands. For two years this has been an unrealized 



project. . , ,. . - i- 1 



For some months plans have been under consideration for a series of articles in 

 AMERfOAK FoRtsTKY of 3. distinctly educational character, especially adapted to the use 

 of teachers Beginnings in this direction have already been made and we propose to 

 follow them up as regularly as opportunity will permit. We can do work in this direc- 

 tion that will supplement the work of government agencies. We should be able to put 

 out bulletins and circulars that would be helpful to teachers and community workers 

 in developing, not technical and professional forestry education, but popular knowledge 

 and understanding. This we must have in all our communities in order that the pro- 

 fessional foresters may be intelligently upheld in their work. One of the most hopeful 

 projects for the future that we have ever taken up may be appropriately mentioned in 

 this connection. 



THE JUNIOR FORESTERS 



For a year we have been considering ways and means for developing an active 

 interest in forestry among the young people of the country. Various plans have been 

 considered. At the same time, the same idea was put forth from another source. The 

 National Business League of America through its secretary, Mr. Austin A. Burnham, 

 published a plan for a juvenile organization to be known as the Tree Planters of 

 America. It is too early to go into the details of the movement as proposed by Mr. 

 Burnham, or the plans which we have in mind. Conferences have taken place between 

 Mr. Burnham and your secretary, and one of your directors. Mr. Graves, the forester 

 of the United States, has also been consulted. It has been hoped that we might under- 

 take the engineering of the plan of the National Business League and have their valu- 

 able co-operation in the movement. In any case, it is probable that we shall undertake 

 such an organization as a branch, or junior department of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, and we hope in this way to enlist a large and enthusiastic body of young people 

 in the forestry propaganda and in the forestry work. 



SHADE TREES IN TOWNS AND CITIES 



There has been a revival of interest in shade trees in our towns and cities, a revival 

 of that interest which our ancestors showed when they planted the streets of our towns 

 with the trees which are today the joy and pride of most of our elder communities. This 

 revival of interest has been largely due to the study of the importance of trees both 

 individually and collectively to our life as a people. In some of the states the state 

 forestry associations have given much attention to the shade tree problem, and have 

 thereby enlisted many people in their work and developed a wader interest in forestry 

 proper than they would otherwise have done. There seems to be no reason why a forestry 

 association should not consider the problem of the tree broadly and in all its aspects. 

 Recently a national association has been launched under the name of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Planting and Preservation of City Trees. To this organization and its 

 work we certainly owe our best wishes. It has been suggested that some means of co- 

 operation or even of consolidation should be arranged between this new organization 

 and the American Forestry Association so that there might be a union of forces and 

 no duplication of effort. This is a matter which needs to be carefully considered and 

 has already been discussed somewhat between your secretary and officers of the new 

 organization. At the present meeting of the association Mr. J. J. Levison, of Brooklyn, 

 the forester of the new association, speaks upon the subject of "City Trees and Their 

 Relation to Forestry," and considers this question of a city shade tree department in 

 the American Forestry Association. We should be glad to know the sentiment of our 

 members in regard to our share in this branch of the work. 



THE APPALACHIAN FORESTS 



Once again, as for many years past, the preservation of the mountain forests of the 

 northern and southern Appalachians is a main feature of the work of the association. 

 As is well known to most of our members, since the last annual meeting the Weeks bill, 

 so called, has a second time passed the House of Representatives and will be voted on in 

 the Senate on the 15th of February. In the January number of American Forestry the 

 present situation is stated as clearly as is possible, and we do not need to add anything 

 to it. The source of the antagonism which has prevented the passage of this beneficent 

 legislation, notwithstanding the widespread demand and the character and influence of 

 the individuals and organizations all over the country which have asked for it, remains 

 a mystery. If we knew the source of this opposition, it would be easier to meet it. Every 



