ANNUAL MEETING AND FORESTRY CONFERENCE 



THE Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American 

 Forestry Association and the International Forestry 

 Conference held in connection with it at Washington, 



D. C, January 18-19 proved to be the most largely 

 attended forestry meeting ever held in this country. Not 

 only did members of the Association attend in large num- 

 bers, but delegations from many of the states and from 

 several of the provinces in Canada were present. 



The sessions were devoted to three main topics: 

 recreational uses of National Forests and Parks and 

 conservation of game on each; reports, addresses and dis- 

 cussions on the white pine blister disease and how to 

 fight it; and addresses and discussions on the advisability 

 of a national quarantine against the importation of tree 

 and plant stock from other continents in the effort to 

 keep out of this country the tree and plant diseases which 

 now do hundreds of millions of dollars, damage each year. 



At the annual business meeting of the American 

 Forestry Association the officers were elected as follows: 



President; Charles Lathrop Pack of New Jersey. 



Vice-presidents : Andrew Carnegie, New York ; William 



E. Colby, California; Coleman Dupont, Delaware; Dr. 

 Charles W. Eliot, Massachusetts; Dr. B. E. Fernow, 

 Canada; Henry S. Graves, District of Columbia; Everitt 

 G. Griggs, Washington; Hon. David Houston, Secretary 

 of Agriculture; Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the 

 Interior; Hon. Asbury F. Lever, South Carolina; Hon. 

 Thomas Nelson Page, Ambassador to Italy; Gifford Pin- 

 chot, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Frances Folsom Preston, New 

 Jersey; Filibert Roth, Michigan; Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 

 Pennsylvania; Mrs. John D. Sherman, Illinois; Hon. Wm. 

 H. Taft, Connecticut; Joseph N. Teal, Oregon; Theodore 

 N. Vail, Vermont; Hon. John Weeks, Massachusetts; Dr. 

 Robert S. Woodward, Washington, D. C. 



Treasurer, John E. Jenks, Washington, D. C. 



Directors, John S. Ames, Massachusetts; W. B. 

 Greeley, Washington, D. C; Alfred Gaskill, New Jersey; 

 Chester W. Lyman, New York; and Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, New Jersey. 



At the morning session the address was on "Economic 

 Justice for Lumber and Forests" by E. A. Sterling of 

 Chicago, a director of the American Forestry Association. 



In the afternoon the addresses were, "National Parks 

 as National Playgrounds," by Robert Sterling Yard of 

 the Department of National Parks; "Recreational Uses of 

 the National Forests," by Henry S. Graves, Chief Forester, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture; "Conservation of Game 

 in National Forests and National Parks," by E. W. Nelson, 

 Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey ; and a film story, 

 "Attractions of the National Forests," by C. J. Blanchard, 

 Statistician of the U. S. Reclamation Service. 



The morning of the second day was devoted to the 

 pine blister disease situation. The disease was discussed 

 by Dr. Perley Spaulding, U. S. Forest Pathologist; and 

 the situation was described in four great divisions as 

 follows: In New England, by W. P. Wharton of Massa- 

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chusetts; between the Hudson and the Mississippi by 

 E. A. Sterling of Illinois; on the Pacific Coast by E. T. 

 Allen of Oregon; and in Canada by Clyde Leavitt of 

 Canada. S. B. Detwiler, U. S. Forest Pathologist gave 

 his views on what should be done about the disease; C. R. 

 Pettis, Superintendent of the New York State Forests, dis- 

 cussed the advisability of planting white pine; and Dr. 

 Haven Metcalf, chief of the U. S. Office of Forest Path- 

 ology, discussed the problem as a whole. 



The substance of these papers and the resolutions 

 regarding the situation as passed by the Conference will, 

 be found on another page. 



At the concluding session in the afternoon C. L. Mar- 

 latt, Chairman of the Federal Horticultural Board, spoke 

 on "The Losses Caused by Imported Tree and Plant 

 Pests"; a paper by David T. Fairchild, Agricultural Ex- 

 plorer in Charge of the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant 

 Introduction on "The Independence of American Nur- 

 series" was read by his assistant, Mr. P. H. Dorsett.and 

 J. G. Sanders, Economic Zoologist of Pennsylvania, spoke 

 on " The Necessity for a Federal Quarantine Against Tree 

 and Plant Importations." These papers will be found in 

 the magazine. 



A fitting climax to the two days of hard work, serious- 

 addresses and discussions, committee meetings, etc., was- 

 the smoker given on the last evening of the meeting to the 

 visiting members and delegates by the American Forestry 

 Association. President Charles Lathrop Pack presided ancL 

 there were informal addresses, music and lunch. 



The Resolutions 



The resolutions adopted by the Forestry Conference, 

 with the exception of the resolution relating to the pine? 

 blister disease, which will be found on another page, were 

 as follows : 



The Boy Scouts 



Resolved, That the American Forestry Association 

 recognizes The Boy Scouts of America as a movement 

 from which great good has already resulted in Planting 

 Trees and in the prevention of and fighting forest fires, 

 and that under proper direction the Boy Scouts may 

 become one of the great factors in the cause of forestry 

 and conservation. 



And it recommends to the Board of Directors the 

 appointment of a committee of three to consult with the 

 officials of the Boy Scouts of America to formulate a. 

 proper working plan which the Boy Scouts can put in 

 operation in all parts of the United States, said plan to* 

 cover all matters in forestry and conservation that a. 

 boy should know. 



School Study of Trees and Forests 



Whereas, The child is the heart of society. The secret - 

 of permanency lies in its training through the medium of! 

 our public school system. 



