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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



VOL. 27 



JANUARY, 1921 



NO. 325 



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EDITORIAL 



FOREST PROGRAM PROGRESSES 



T'HE movement to perpetuate the forest resources of 

 _ the United States through the adoption of a com- 

 prehensive national forest policy continues to progress. 

 Within the last few months the essential features of the 

 program outlined by the Forest Service in the so-called 

 Capper report on timber depletion submitted to the 

 Senate last spring have been endorsed by a considerable 

 number of interested and influential groups. American 

 Forestry has already presented the results of the meet- 

 ing held in New York in October at which the entire 

 matter was discussed at length and unanimous agreement 

 on the essentials of a Federal legislative program was 

 reached by representatives of the American Paper and 

 Pulp Association, the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association, the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association, the Association of Wood-Using Industries, 

 the American Forestry Association, the American News- 

 paper Publishers' Association, and the United States 

 chamber of Commerce. 



Since then the proposed legislation has also been en- 

 dorsed by seventeen state forestry organizations, by the 

 Southern Pine Association, the Society for the Protection 

 of New Hampshire Forests, the National Fire Protection 

 Committee, the Western Forestry and Conservation 

 Association and others. 



A month later a well-attended conference of State for- 

 estry officials at Atlantic City endorsed the recommenda- 

 tions of the Forest Service relating to co-operation with 

 States in fire protection and forest renewal, and urged 

 upon Congress the enactment of legislation, accompanied 

 by suitable annua! appropriations, to make those recom- 

 mendations effective. Both the State Foresters and the 

 group of interests represented at the October meeting in 

 New York appointed steering committees to do all in 



their power to further the proposed legislation. A meet- 

 ing of the committee representing the latter was held 

 early in December at which the entire ground was covered 

 in considerable detail and definite plans for further 

 action approved. 



There is thus a united movement in wliich timber pro- 

 ducers , timber consumers, foresters, and the general 

 public are well represented to secure the Federal legis- 

 lation fundamental to the adoption of a national forest 

 policy which will provide an adequate and permanent 

 supply of timber for the people of the United States. 

 So strong and well organized is the movement that it 

 seems almost certain that bills looking to this end will 

 have been introduced in Congress before this issue of 

 American Forestry reaches its readers. In urging 

 their vigorous support of the legislation proposed we 

 wish also to emphasize the fact that Federal legislation 

 alone will not solve the problem, and that to be really 

 effective it must be supplemented by State legislation in 

 the timber-producing States. 



This is obvious when it is remembered that the key- 

 note of the whole program is local as opposed to national 

 control, and that the proposed Federal appropriations 

 for fire protection and forest renewal are to be available 

 for co-operative work with the States only when the 

 latter have enacted legislation making such provision for 

 the same purposes as is satisfactory to the Federal Gov- 

 ernment. State action is, therefore, absolutely essential 

 if the Federal legislation is to be made effective in 

 practice. 



Clear recognition of this fact, accompanied by vigorous 

 efforts to secure the adoption of appropriate legislation 

 in the various States, is vital to the success of the entire 

 movement. 



SAVE THE REDWOODS 



IV" O less important than the protection of the National 

 Parks already in existence is the setting aside of other 

 areas which should be maintained in their virgin state 

 as a national heritage. Among these are the magnificent 

 redwoods of the California coast, one of the most im- 

 pressive of the natural wonders of the country. Small 

 groves of the bigtree, the sister tree of the redwood 

 which is found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, are 

 now included in the Yosemite and Sequoia National 

 Parks, and it is to be hoped are safe for all time. Red- 



wood proper, however, is practically all in private owner- 

 ship, aside from a relatively few trees included in the 

 National Forests of northern California and in the Muir 

 Woods, near San Francisco. These do not comprise the 

 finest or most representative specimens, all of which are 

 privately owned and are being rapidly destroyed through 

 the progress of lumbering operations. 



The Save the Redwoods League is conducting a vigor- 

 ous campaign for the acquisition through donation and 

 purchase of certain areas of the most typical primitive 



