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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



lVTORTH DAKOTA is not much on 

 ^ ' forests we gather from the Devil's 

 Lake (N. D.) Journal, but North 

 Dakota has no copyright on that situ- 

 ation, the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion can announce without fear of 

 contradiction. On this point the 

 Devil's Lake Journal says : "The 

 American Forestry Association at 

 Washington, D- C, may be long on 

 forestry but it is short on geography. 

 Yesterday we received a circular from 

 it urging us 'to save the forests now.' 

 Will somebody kindly pass the for- 

 ests." Why not start something in 

 the way of tree growing in such 

 States ? At one time Indiana had the 

 finest hardwood forests in the world. 

 Out of an area of something more 

 than 22,000,000 acres there are now 

 about one and a half million acres in 

 timberland. Thus North Dakota is 

 not alone in these matters, Indiana 

 being much the worse example be- 

 cause she at least had forests once. 

 The editors of the land are awake to 

 the need of a national forest policy. 

 They have been carrying columns on 

 this subject from the American For- 

 estry Association. The Chicago Tri- 

 bune is devoting a page a day to the 

 methods it has been forced to use to 

 get pulpwood from its own lands far 

 back in Canada. The Editor and Pub- 

 lisher is hammering away at a. weekly 

 feature, "What are you doing for For- 

 estry?" In this campaign editors 

 have taken up every phase of the sub- 

 ject particularly since the formation 

 of the National Forestry Program 

 Committee which is directing united 

 action for the bill introduced in Con- 

 gress by Representative B. H. Snell, 

 of New York State. Some of this 

 comment follows : 



New York Evening Post: "The greatest 

 forward step in forestry in many years," as 

 it is termed by American Forestry, has 

 been taken in this city. Years of agitation 

 have culminated in a definite proposal for 

 a national forest policy. Representatives 

 of the most important lumber and paper 

 industries, of the wholesale lumber dis- 

 tributors, newspaper organizations, wood- 

 using industries and the general public met 

 and reached a unanimous agreement. The 

 purpose of the program is twofold : to 



obtain a considerable extension of direct 

 Federal activity in forest ownership and 

 production and to further by Federal aid 

 the development of a prober forest policy 

 in the various States. It looks as if we 

 were at last awake. 



St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Only of late, 

 it would seem, has the public mind been 

 thoroughly aroused as to the imminence of 



FORESTRY ASSOCIATION'S 

 WORK 



Springfield, Illinois, Journal: Work 

 of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion is bearing fruit in the awaken- 

 ing of public interest in the sub- 

 ject of forest preservation and the 

 planting of trees for the future. A 

 recent compilation of editorial com- 

 ment, published in the American For- 

 estry Magazine, indicates how wide- 

 spread this interest has become. 



Owing to the fact that President- 

 elect Harding has long favored a 

 definite and constructive national 

 policy for ending the timber waste 

 and encouraging the growth of trees, 

 it is taken for granted that the in- 

 coming administration will take ac- 

 tion along this line. The new Con- 

 gress has in it a large number of men 

 who are in harmony with Senator 

 Harding's ideas respecting the im- 

 portance of this subject, and he will 

 have able legislative help in the crea- 

 tion of a workable policy. 



America has never been unfriendly 

 to proposals for saving the trees, but 

 it has been woefully indifferent. Un- 

 til recently its people have not fully 

 appreciated -what is involved in de- 

 nuding the forests and permitting so 

 much land, suitable for little other 

 than the production of trees, to re- 

 main idle. Now, however, they re- 

 alize how necessary it is that the 

 nation begin to repair the destruction 

 and provide against a treeless future. 



President Harding and Congress 

 are assured that they will be heartily 

 commended with the public's grati- 

 tude if they save the trees. What 

 they do towards this will be appreci- 

 ated and applauded. 



the danger of forest depletion. We are 

 steadily losing more than we are gaining 

 or putting ourselves in a position to re- 

 gain. For we are not putting back into 

 the ground, in reforestation, what we are 

 steadily losing by deforestation. And de- 

 forestation is an increasing and not a 

 diminishing evil. 



Dearborn Independent: The American 

 forestry Association is (performing a public 

 service by persistently calling the attention 

 of this nation to the need for a construc- 

 tive national forestry policy. The depletion 



of our forests is a matter of great concern, 

 the significance of which has as yet been 

 only partially grasped by the public. The 

 high prke of lumber and the scarcity of 

 wood pulp for print paper are only indi 

 cations of the price we will eventually pay 

 if we refuse to heed the warning signals 



Mobile Register: The statistician can. 

 and does, gives us figures showing that if 

 we do not adopt a policy of reforestation 

 we shall, within a stated and remarkably 

 short period, find ourselves without lumber. 

 With the facts before us, we should be 

 more than hospitable to the plan of the 

 American Forestry Association, of which 

 Charles Lathrop Pack is president, to give 

 us a really national policy of forest protec- 

 tion and conservation, even though that 

 plan calls for appropriation at a time when 

 economy in national expenditures is ou- 

 principal desire. Perhaps that is because 

 we understand that there can be no econo- 

 my in waste. There are few better ways to 

 spend eleven million dollars than in the 

 preservation and enrichment of our forests. 



Troy Record: The rapid exhaustion of 

 American forests furnishes a striking ex- 

 ample of the ultimate results of wasteful- 

 ness. Not many years ago -our lumber 

 supply was considered practically limitless. 

 Our awakening is much belated. 



Atlanta Journal: If American progresses 

 as her needs require, the time will come 

 when she will raise crops of timber as 

 regularly as she now produces corn 'or 

 apples or pecans. 



Rochester Post-Express: Forest fires are 

 burning up a vast lot of the wood we so 

 much . need. This ought to get special at- 

 tention for the plea which Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, president of the American Forestry 

 Association, makes for protection of timber 

 areas against fire. 





Detroit Nevis: The fact that forests are 

 being leveled for the mills in this country 

 at five times the rate at which the forests 

 reproduce themselves has stirred the whole 

 country. The plain consequence of events 

 is to be a timber famine heaped upon the 

 existing condition of shortage and high 

 prices. This, unless nature be assisted in 

 the work of replacement of timber trees. 



Greenville (S. C.) News: The solution 

 is to set all this idle forest land to work 

 growing new timber. It is a task' which 

 calls for the united efforts of the Federal 

 and State Governments as well as of the 

 smaller communities and the individual 

 owners of forest land. 



