The cAmerican Forestry (dissociation 



Washington, D. C. 



VINCENT ASTOR. New York. 



W. E. COLBY, California. Secretary The 

 jierra Club 



COLEMAN DuPO.NT, Delaware 



DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT, Masaachuietu, 

 President Emeritus Harvard University. 



DR. B. E. FERNOW, Canada, Former Dean of 

 Forestry, University of Toronto. 



E. G. GRIGGS, Washington. 



HENRY S GRAVES, District of Columbia, 

 Former United States Forester. 



HON. DAVID HOUSTON, District of Colum- 

 bia, Secretary of the Treasury. 



PERCIVAL 



NELSON C. BROWN, New York. 



W. R BROWN, New Hampshire. 



H H. CHAPMAN. Connecticut. 



STANDISH CHARD, New York. 



HON. P. P. CLAXTON, District of Columbia 



OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 1920 



President 

 CHARLES LATHROP PACK 



Vice-Presidents 

 HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE, California. Ex- 

 Secretary of the Interior. 



DR JOHN GRIER HIBBEN, New Jersey. 

 President Princeton University. 



HON. ROBERT P. BASS, New Hampshire. 

 Former Governor of New Hampshire. 



STEPHEN C. MATHER, Illinois, Director 

 National Park Service. 



HON. THOMAS NELSON PAGE, Virginia 

 Former Ambassador to Italy. 



GIFFORD PINCHOT, Pennsylvania, Forestry 

 Commissioner of Pennsylvania. 



Treasurer 

 CHARLES F. QUINCY, New York 



Executive Secretary 

 SHELDON RIDSDALE, 1214 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C 

 Board of Directors 

 DR. HENRY S. DRINKER, Pennsylvania. 

 W. B. GREELEY, District of Columbia. 

 CHESTER W. LYMAN. New York. 

 EMERSON McMILLIN, New York City. 



FILIBERT ROTH. Micmgan. Dean of Fores- 

 try, University of Michigan 



DR. J. T. ROTHROCK. Pennsylvania. Penn- 

 sylvania Forestry Commission. 



MRS. JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. Illi 

 nois. Chairman Conservation Department 

 General Federation of Women's Clubs 



HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT. Connecticut. 



HON JOHN W. WEEKS, Massachusetts. 

 Former United States Senator. 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK, New Jersey. 

 ADDISON S. PRATT, New York. 

 CHARLES F. QUINCY, New York. 

 E. A. STERLING. New York. 

 J. B. WHITE, Missouri. 



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Declaration of Principles and Policy 

 tf ^jfe cAmerican Forestry" ^Association 



IT IS A VOLUNTARY organization for the inculcation and spread of a forest 

 policy on a scale adequate for our economic needs :i iny person is eligible 

 for membership. 



Federal or State 

 nducive to national 



IT IS INDEPENDENT, has -no official connectio 

 department or policy, and is devoted to a publir 

 prosperity. 



IT ASSERTS THAT forestry means the propagation ami care of forests for the 

 production of timber as a crop; protection of watershed; utilization of non- 

 agricultural soil ; use of forests for public recrea 



11 DECLARES THAT FORESTRY is of immense impoi nice to the peopit 

 that the census of 1913 shows our forests annua';. y over one and a 



quarter billion dollars' worth of products ; .''.5.000 people : pay 



$367,000,000 in wages; cover 550.000.000 acres u >i agriculture: regu- 



late the distribution of water; prevent erosion nd are essential to 



the beauty of the country and the health of the 



IT RECOGNIZES THAT forestry is an industry limitec -conomic conditions, 

 that private owners should be aided and encour estimations, demon- 

 strations, and educational work, since they cannot ' *pected to practice- 

 forestry at a financial loss; that Federal and St: lents should under- 

 take scientific forestry upon National and State ton i rves for the benefit 

 of the public. 



IT WILL DEVOTE its influence and educational facilities to the development of 

 public thought and knowledge along these practical 



It Will Support These Policies 



National and State Forests under Fed 

 eral and Slate Ownership, adminis 

 tration and management respective 

 ly; adequate appropriations for their 

 care and management; Federal co- 

 operation with the State, especially 

 in forest fire protection. 



State activity by acquirement of forest 

 lands; organization for fire protec- 

 tion; encouragement of forest plant- 

 ing by communal and private owners, 

 non -political depart men tally indepen 

 dent forest organization, with liberal 

 appropriations for these purposes. 



Forest Fire Protection by Federal. 

 State and fire protective agencies, 

 and encouragement and extension 

 individually and by co-operation, 

 without adequate fire protection all 

 other measures for forest crop pro- 

 duction will fail. 



Forest Planting by Federal and State 

 governments and long-lived corpora 

 tions and acquirement of waste lands 

 for this purpose; and also planting 

 by private owners, where profitable, 

 and encouragement of natural regen- 

 eration. 



Forest Taxation Reforms re-moving un- 

 just burdens from owners of growing 

 timber. 



Closer Utilization in logging and man- 

 ufacturing without loss to owners; aid 

 to lumbermen in achieving this. 



Cutting of Mature Timber where and 

 as the domestic market demands it 

 except On areas maintained for park 

 r scenic purposes, and compensation 

 of forest owners for loss suffered 

 through protection of watersheds, or 

 on behalf of any public interest. 



Equal protection to the lumber indus 

 try and to public interests in legisla 

 tion affecting private timberland op- 

 erations, recognizing that lumbering 

 is as legitimate and necessary as the 

 forests themselves. 



Classification by experts of lands best 

 suited for farming and those best 

 suited for forestry ; and liberal Na- 

 tional and State appropriations for 

 this work 



