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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



oW laws along lines which will stimulate and encour- 

 age the practice of forestry. 



N'iewing what has happened in seven years, action is 

 clearly the great need. Failing in a comprehensive pro- 

 gram, the report concludes: "There is no hope of pro- 

 longing the use of the present day timber to bridge the 

 gap while the seedlings of today are growing into the 

 merchantable timber of the future." 



The first thirty pages of the report tell the story of 

 New York's situation in a lucid and popular way. They 

 should be read, not only by every citizen of New York, 



who is interested in the welfare of his state, his com- 

 munity and his family, but by citizens of other impor- 

 tant forest-landed states, because they portray with a 

 substantial background of facts a definite picture of the 

 insidious progress of forest depletion, once it has gullied 

 its courses. 



New York is the first state in which a re-inventory of 

 the wood-using industries has been made. Several other 

 states are now engaged in similar work. 



The more states that will hold the stop-watch, so to 

 speak, on forest depletion, the more clearly will we be 

 able to gauge the national effects of its progress. 



THE "FATHER OF PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY" RETIRES 



AFTER a service of almost forty years, Dr. Joseph 

 Trimble Rothrock recently resigned as a member of 

 the Pennsylvania Forestry Commission. He has had a 

 remarkably active life, which has enriched both his Stc^te 

 and the Nation, and he now seeks a well-earned rest at 

 the age of eighty-three. "^ >. 



American forestry owes much to Dr. Rothrock. His 

 name is woven into its history. As a pioneer in the cause 

 of forestry he has labored long and faithfully and he 

 may today take much credit to himself for the progress 

 of forestry, not only in Pennsylvania but throughout the 

 United States. This the foresters of America and thou- 

 sands of citizens in and out of his own state concede him 

 spontaneously. 



Dr. Rothrock is known as the "Father of Pennsylvania 

 Forestry." His efforts to save "Penn's Woods" date back 

 for more than forty years. He awakened the people of the 

 Keystone State to an appreciation of their forests by 



traveling up and down the state giving illustrated lec- 

 tures on forestry. Due largely to his efforts, the Penn- 

 sylvania legislature created in 1895 the Forestry Com- 

 mission and Dr. Rothrock was placed in charge of the 

 State's forestry work. 



Under his guidance, the State rapidly forged ahead 

 in forestry. Within ten years after he took office, it ac- 

 quired half a million acres of forest land, established a 

 school of forestry and developed a state organization 

 to assist private timber owners in the handling of the 

 forest lands. In recognition of his long and inspiring 

 work in behalf of "Penn's Woods" a memorial grove of 

 eighty trees was planted in the Franklin County forest 

 preserve on his 80th birthday. AMERICAN FORES- 

 TRY expresses the hope that Dr. Rothrock may witness 

 many more years of forestry progress, behind which his 

 name will always stand as a rock of inspiration and ac- 

 complishment. 



HELP SAVE THE OIANT SEQUOIAS 



THERE is pending in Congress a bill which should 

 have the active support of every member of the 

 American Forestry Association because it would pre- 

 serve to the people of the United States many of the 

 largest and most majestic sequoias of California and 

 the scenic wonders of the Kings and Kern Rivers of the 

 high Sierra Nevada Mountains. The bill is known as 

 H. R. 7452, introduced by Congressman Barbour. It 

 provides for the enlargement of the Sequoia National 

 Park to embrace some 600,000 acres of the high Sierra 

 Mountains which have long been considered as of park 

 status. Under the provisions of the Bill, the name of 

 the enlarged park, which would contain a total of over 

 700,000 acres, would be the Roosevelt-Sequoia National 

 Park, as a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt. 



.Xlthdugh the added park area would be taken from 

 the Sr(ni(iia National Forest, the boundaries have been 

 aLcrci(l upon by the Forest Service and the Park Service, 

 the l''or(stt'r taking the position that "the combination 



of mountain scenery, including the highest portions of 

 the Sierras and three of the greatest and most impressive 

 of the Sierra canyons, with the giant forests of redwood, 

 gives this area as a whole outstanding national import- 

 ance for recreational and aesthetic value," which out- 

 weighs its value for commercial purposes. The inclu- 

 sion of the scenic wonders of the Kings and Kern Rivers 

 have long been urged by the Sierra Club of California, 

 their beauties having been pointed out in 1891 by John 

 Muir. 



The passage of the Barbour Bill will save for the 

 present and future generations some of the most ma- 

 jestic forests of the world, and many beautiful canyons, 

 rivers and lakes. The added area proposed lies above 

 5,000 feet elevation and contains ten of the fifty-six peaks 

 in the United States, excluding Alaska, over 14,000 feet 

 in elevation. For mountain climbing and trout fishing 

 the area is a paradise. The bill is pending on the House 

 calendar, and prompt action is urged in support of it. 



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