FORESTRY IN PENNSYLVANIA 



1%/f OST successful was the meeting of the Pemisyl- 

 -'-'- vania Forestry Association at Pittsburg on June 

 i6 and 17; successful in concentrating attention on the 

 need of acquisition by the Government of a forest area 

 of 1,000,000 acres in the northwestern part of the State 

 to protect the watershed of the Allegheny River, and suc- 

 cessful also in emphasizing the progress of forestry in the 

 State. 



Dr. Henry S. Drinker, president of the Association, in 

 opening the meeting said : 



"Founded at Philadelphia in 1886 the association has 

 for 35 years continuously labored to interest our people 

 in the study of this question, so important to our com- 

 forts and to our industrial interests, and to impress upon 

 our legislators and State officials their duty to take ef- 

 ficient measures for the conservation and care of our tim- 



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GOVERNMENT TO BUY 1,000,000 PENNSYLVANIA ACRES 



The area in light grey in the northwestern section of the state comiprises an area of forest land to be 

 acquired by the Government to protect the head waters of the Allegheny River and to develop as a re- 

 newal forest. The areas in black indicate location of State forest land. 



berlands and for the reproduction of timber on lands from 

 which matured timber has been cut and used. 



"For years in the early stages of the forestry cult it 

 was looked on by many as being rather a fad of nature 

 lovers than a matter of great financial and industrial im- 

 portance to our State; but the great lessening in recent 

 years of the available supply of timber, and its constantly 

 increasing cost, in bringing home to our people the lesson 

 that the early pioneers of the forestry movement. Dr. 

 Rothrock, Dr. Elliott, and their associates, sought to 

 enforce. 



"Today we are fortunate in having as the Governor of 

 Pennsylvania a man of large business experience and 

 broad vision, who is doing all that the finances of the 

 State will permit to support the State Forestry Depart- 

 ment in its work of protecting our woods from destruc- 



tion by fire, and of reproducing on our State lands timber 

 supplies for the future. And at the head of our Forestry 

 Department we have Gififord Pinchot, a man who has 

 given and is giving a life's devotion to the cause, and 

 whose energy and trained and wise direction of the for- 

 estry interests of the State shows large results already 

 accomplished and bear the promise and potency of great 

 accomplishment in the future. The forestry question is 

 one of great present interest to Pittsburg and the Penn- 

 sylvania Forestry Association has stood behind Mr. Pin- 

 chot in his successful efifort before the legislature during 

 the past winter to obtain the legislation asked by your 

 Flood Commission and supported by your Chamber of 

 Commerce, looking to the establishment of conditions at 

 the head-waters of your streams to lessen and to do away 

 with the floods that have done so much damage to Pitts- 

 burg at periods in the 

 past. 



"Passing beyond 

 the borders of our 

 own State, we find the 

 great Chamber of 

 Commerce of the 

 United States taking 

 the same active stand 

 nationally in regard to 

 forestry that your 

 Pittsburg Chamber 

 pf Commerce is taking 

 in regard to your lo- 

 cal needs. The Na- 

 tional Chamber has 

 appointed and formed 

 an Advisory Commit- 

 tee of men versed in 

 the various phases of 

 the forestry question 

 Fire Protection, Re- 

 production of Timber, 

 the Acquisition o f 

 State Reservations of Timber, Timberland Taxation, 

 and other matters who are asked to make a nation- 

 wide study of the whole question for consideration by the 

 National Chamber of Commerce and for reference by ref- 

 erendum to its many constituent Chambers throughout the 

 country, with a view to formulating a national policy in 

 regard to our National forestry interests, to be advocated 

 before Congress and before the legislatures of the several 

 States a broad, important, patriotic movement, likely to 

 be of great good to the country. The forestry movement 

 has an importance and a momentum that is bound to 

 bring forth great and useful results and you do well to 

 give it your interest and support." 



Addresses were made by Hon. John M. Phillips, a 

 State Game Commissioner; E. K. Morse, of the Pitts- 

 burg Flood Commission ; Giflford Pinchot, Joseph S. II- 



