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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Whereas other infestations are threatening American forests 

 elsewhere, as, for example, the spruce-bud worm in the North- 

 east and pine borers at various points ; and 



Whereas no provision is made in the annual appropriations oi 

 Congress to meet this urgent situation, be it 



Resolved: That The American Forestry Association urge upon 

 Congress the necessity for giving consideration to this serious 

 danger to the forests and to providing in the annual appropriation 

 for the Forest Service and Bureau of Entomology, funds to 

 meet this situation. 



COMMENDING PRESIDENT HARDING 



Whereas the President of the United States, in his excellent 

 address before the National Agricultural Conference on Monday, 

 January 23, emphasized the need of forestry and urged upon the 

 farmer the importance of conserving and expanding the timber 

 resources of the farm, be it 



Resolved: That The American Forestry Association express 

 its appreciation and commendation to the President for his 

 interest and support of the forestry movement. 



GRAVES RETURNS TO YALE FORESTRY SCHOOL 



T T has recently been announced that plans long under 

 ' consideration by Dean James W. Tourney, of the 

 Yale School of Forestry, are now consummated in the 

 arrangement whereby Colonel Henry S. Graves, formerly 

 Chief Forester of the United States, is to return to his 

 former position as Dean to the School. Mr. Tourney 

 desires to resume his more purely scientific work and 

 Mr. Graves, in view of the widening opportunities af- 

 forded to the school by its recent developments, is re- 

 turning enthusiastically to his old post. 



Coming coincidentally with the announcement that 

 a further substantial increase representing the income 

 on a quarter of a million dollars has been added to the 

 School's resources, and that three hundred thousand dol- 

 lars has recently been received for the erection and 

 maintenance of a School of Forestry building, the news 

 that such a conspicuous forester as Mr. Graves has been 

 called to the faculty of the Yale School will generally 

 be regarded as significant. The fact that Mr. Graves 

 recently declined an offer of the position of Conserva- 

 tion Commissioner of the State of New York on the 

 ground that the Yale School of Forestry offer, then 

 under consideration, promised the greatest field for the 

 national educational work in connection with forests 

 and other natural resources in which he has been en- 

 gaged since his resignation from Government service, 

 will also be regarded as a significant circumstance. It 

 is believed that the national eminence and Internationa': 

 reputation of Mr. Graves will bring a degree of prestige 

 which will directly influence the future growth of the 

 Yale School. 



In this connection it is announced that the trustees 

 of tl^e estate of John W. Sterling have decided to estab- 

 lish in the University a fifth Sterling Professorship, to 

 be known as the Sterling Professorship of Forestry. The 

 first incumbent of this Sterling Professorship will be 

 Professor Henry S. Graves, the Dean-elect of the School 

 of Forestry. 



Mr. Toumey, whose retirement as dean is a voluntary 

 act, desires relief from executive duties in order to de- 

 vote himself to more intensive work in silviculture. 

 He has been connected with the Yale School of For- 

 estry since its foundation in 1900, when he became 

 Assistant Professor of Forestry. He was advanced to 

 full professorial rank in 1903, and was assigned to the 



Morris K. Jesup Professorship of Silviculture when this 

 chair was established in 1909. It is an interesting fact 

 that Mr. Graves was the first Director of the School 

 of Forestry, and retained that position until 1909. Mr. 

 Toumey was Acting Director during the years 1909-1911, 

 since when he has served as the administrative head 

 of the school. Under Dean Toumey Yale's youngest 

 school has attained marked success, extending its edu- 

 cational scope, adding to its equipment, sending its 

 graduates into every form of service in the widening 

 field of forestry. No other school of Yale University 

 has enjoyed a more remarkable development than has the 

 School of Forestry under the administration of Dean 

 Toumey. 



The new Yale Dean of Forestry was one of the pio- 

 neers in the forestry movement. He first came into 

 prominence during the period of his office as Director 

 of the Yale School of Forestry. In 1910 he was selected 

 by President Taft to succeed Gifford Pinchot as Chief 

 Forester in charge of the Forest Service in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. Later, in 1920, he 

 resigned to devote himself to the private practice of for- 

 estry, opening offices in Washington, D. C. 



In 1917 Mr. Graves was commissioned a major in the 

 Corps of Engineers and was sent to France to prepare 

 for the work of the forestry troops then being organ- 

 ized to operate the French forests for the purpose of 

 securing lumber and other material needed for the 

 American Army. He was later promoted to a Lieutenant 

 Colonelcy in the Tenth Engineers. 



Mr. Graves is a member of the board of management 

 of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vice-president 

 of the Section of Social Economic Sciences of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, a mem- 

 ber of the Division of States Relations in the National 

 Research Council, a member of the Joint Committee on 

 Natural Resources of the National Academy of Science, 

 National Research Council and the American Forestry 

 Association, an honorary member of the Royal English 

 and the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Societies, a mem- 

 ber of the Societe Forestiere de Franche Comte d'Belfort, 

 member of the Society of American Military Engineers, 

 and a member and officer in numerous societies and or- 

 ganizations for the advancement of forestry and kindred 

 subjects. 



