790 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



From this it may be discerned that an 

 average fire would not need be very ex- 

 tensive for the total lots to reach a staK- 

 gering figure. 



tion with which American forests have 

 been treated. 



Chart fsloH (S. C.) .4mcnVa : There is 

 no doubt much truth in the statement by 

 Ourlet Lathrop Pack, president of the 

 Amtrican Forestry Assoeiation, that in re- 

 forestation the south has great opportuni- 

 ty for wealth and for national service. As 

 Mr. Pack pointed out, reforestation is bad- 

 ly needed in many sections of the south. 

 The expert said the reclamation the south 

 needs is of two classes lands reclaimed 

 for cultivation and those for forests. The 

 forestry conference is important to all the 

 people of the south, and it is to be hoped 

 that plans will be made which will assure 

 improvement in the present conditions and 

 at the same time increase the wealth of 

 the entire country. The matter of the pre- 

 servation and reclamation of our forests 

 is one of the most important problems of 

 the country and yet comparatively few peo- 

 ple realize it. 



Atlanta Journal: Atlanta is happy and 

 honored to have as guests those particu- 

 larly useful friends of conservation who 

 are co-operating as the Southern Forestry 

 Congress. Their cause is of national im- 

 port and of utmost economic and human 

 significance. Scarcely a region of the com- 

 mon country but suffers either the conse- 

 quence or threat of the waste and destruc- 



Grand Rapids Herald: Michigan is par- 

 ticularly interested in the bill introduced 

 in the United States Senate by Senator 

 McCormick, of Illinois, providing for co- 

 operative effort on the part of the states 

 and the federal government in the pre- 

 servation of present forests and in refor- 

 esting. Few states of the Union are as 

 vitally interested in reforestation as Michi- 

 gan. That is true, because Michigan, origi- 

 nally a great timber state, has now mil- 

 lions of acres of unproductive land, much 

 of which could wisely be given over to 

 reforestation. Congress will be fully jus- 

 tified in taking the steps Senator McCor- 

 mick proposes, the National Forestry Pro- 

 gram Committee, the United States Forest 

 Service and the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation already having stamped the bill as 

 progressive legislation. 



Buffalo Courier: A crop shortage is 

 serious, but concern should probably be 

 greater for the loss of forests. They can- 

 not be replaced except by long years, at 

 least a generation for even the faster 

 growing of trees of lumber value. In Eu- 

 rope conservation of forests has been 

 greatly advanced compared to what we 

 have done in the United States. 



ured out that the annual consumption of 

 newsprint in the United States would make 

 a two-foot strip, reaching forty million 

 miles or half way to the sun Figured 

 down more closely, he says that something 

 like 5,000 full grown trees go into the 

 waste basket of the country every day. 

 This represents newspapers that have been 

 read and thrown away. These figures come 

 from the American Forestry Association, 

 and are believed to be correct. The Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association is endeavoring 

 to impress on the people of the country 

 the economic value of trees. It wants bet- 

 ter fire protection methods in the timber 

 lands. We have come to realize the fact 

 that we must grow trees. We have also 

 come to realize the fact that we must use 

 more discretion in cutting them. 



Watertown (N. V.) Times: Some per- 

 son with a penchant for statistics, has fig- 



Asheville Citizen: Recent sessions of 

 the Southern Forestry Congress in Atlanta 

 appear to be bringing forth fruit in fores- 

 try legislation in Georgia. After years of 

 declaration that something ought to be 

 done, the people have decided to do some- 

 thing. The determination to conserve 

 comes, it is true, too late to save to the 

 people millions of dollars in timber, in ero- 

 sion by flood and in the injurious effects of 

 treeless wastes on climatic conditions. But 

 the investment in a common-sense system 

 of forestry is nevertheless a sound one; it 

 is more than that, since it is the only way 

 to prevent absolute destruction of for- 

 est resources. 



REORGANIZATION OF COLORADO STATE FORESTRY: ASSOCIATION 



Reorganization of the Colorado State 

 Forestry .Association was effected in Den- 

 ver during the evening of October 27, 1921, 

 following a banquet attended by about 

 twenty. Lou D. Sweet, prominent agri- 

 culturist and a leader in many public move- 

 ments, was elected President. .\. T. Steinel. 

 the very live editor of "Western Farm 

 Life," was chosen Secretary-Treasurer. A 

 board of nine members was also elected, in- 

 cluding two of the old board, Dr. John 

 Grass and Frank C. Goudy, the heads of 

 the two forestry schools in the State, Prof. 

 Gordon Parker and Prof. W. J. Morrill, 

 a representative from the State University, 

 Dr. R. C. Lewis, Mr. H. M. Wheeler from 

 the U. S. Forest Service, Mrs. Mary 

 Louise Stickley representing the Federated 

 Womens Clubs. Benjamin Griffith formerly 

 Attorney General, and C. L. Hover, a leader 

 in many agricultural organizations. 



Prof. W. J. Morrill presided and 

 spoke of the history of the organization. 

 He said that at the time of the admission 

 of Colorado as a state into the Union, a 

 prominent civil engineer residing in the 

 state, Frederick J. Ebert, trained as a pro- 

 fessional forester in Germany, called at- 

 tention to the necessity of forestry. He 

 advocated that the United States turn over 

 to the state its public forest lands in order 



that the state might organize forest protec- 

 tion and forest utilization, and if unwilling 

 to deed the forests to the state, that the 

 United States be urged to save the forests 

 for the future residents. But nothing was 

 done. The forests were being destroyed 

 by reckless exploitation and especially by 

 uncontrolled conflagration during the first 

 twenty years of statehood. Finally Col. 

 Edgar T. Ensign of Colorado Springs in- 

 stituted a series of public appeals through 

 the press, culminating in a call for a meet- 

 ing in Denver on November 19 and 20, 

 1884, at which time the Colorado State 

 Forestry Association was organized with 

 Col. Ensign as President. 



It will be noted that the Association is 

 among the oldest of the Forestry .'\ssocia- 

 tions of the United States, the first being 

 formed in 1876 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and 

 our American Forestry Association was or- 

 ganized in 1882 in Cincinnati as the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Congress. Public sentiment 

 was guided by the Colorado .Association 

 asking that adequate measures be adopted 

 to prevent the destruction of Colorado for- 

 ests. Finally, in cooperation with forestry 

 movements originating in other sections 

 of the nation, national sentiment, some per- 

 sistent forestry advocates, and an approv- 

 ing President, caused the inauguration of 



the forest reserve policy, after necessary 

 congressional action, intentional or unin- 

 tentional, in 1891. 



During the years of the fight against 

 the Forest Service in the West, from 1906 

 to 1912, the Colorado State Forestry As- 

 sociation valiantly and effectively lent its 

 assistance to the cause of forestry. During 

 this critical period Mr. W. G. M. Stone, 

 a retired business man and formerly a 

 clergyman, was the President of the .Associ- 

 ation. His whole heart and his whole time 

 was devoted to the forestry cause and all 

 without remuneratioru After the cam- 

 paign against National Forests had died 

 down, Mr. Stone held the organization to- 

 gether by his personality and by the sense 

 of loyalty to him as a leader. Many mem- 

 bers felt that the great usefulness of the 

 organization was over, that the battle for 

 forest conservation in Colorado had been 

 won. Soon after, Mr. Stone died, among 

 the youngest of very old men I have ever 

 known. His memory will always inspire all 

 who knew him. The world war soon en- 

 grossed our attentions and the .Association 

 remained in a dormant condition until re- 

 vivified at the present time. 



Col. A. S. Peck spoke on the value of 

 the organization as support in his work 

 in administrating the National Forests. 



