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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



an authority of long and wide experience. It is reported 

 to have made a vigorous beginning. It has already 

 planted a large area approaching 5000 acres, I believe, 

 and it is purchasing extensive tracts of waste and graz- 

 ing country which will be converted into productive 

 woodlands. If nothing interferes with its programme, 

 we, or our descendants, may hope eventually to see Great 

 Britain practically self-supporting as regards timber sup- 

 ply. Each year's work will improve our position ma- 

 terially. 



"Nothing of what I have said is new to the members 

 of the American Forestry Association. You have 

 all followed, probably much more closely than I 

 can, the developments that have taken place and the plans 

 that are being worked out. But you have done more than 

 that. You have contributed in a practical way and with 

 great liberality to the success of these new undertakings. 

 The gracious gift of Douglas Fir tree seeds which you 

 made two years ago to the British Commission has en- 

 abled them to make a beginning in replacing the vast 

 number of trees sacrificed during the war. 



"In the meantime, the Chairman and members of the 

 Commission have had the opportunity of expressing to 

 your president their gratitude for that gift. Your Presi- 

 dent has had the opportunity of learning for himself 

 how the gift has been utilized. He himself has now 

 come forward with a similar generous offer. I am here 

 to tell him of the indebtedness of His Majesty's Am- 

 bassador for his generosity and to accept his offer with 

 sincere gratitude. Thanks are due to him not only from 

 the British Ambassador but from the British people. 

 The gratitude of the latter I dare not even try to express, 

 but you may be sure that the forests that spring from 

 these seeds all over the British Islands will stand as a 

 long record of his generosity and yours. They will rep- 

 resent a work of great practical value achieved through 

 your sympathy and assistance and they must surely be 

 a bond of permanent good will between our peoples." 



Engineers. He was cited by General Pershing for his 

 work with the .American Expeditionary Forces. 



PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW FORESTER 



JV/fAJOR ROBERT Y. STUART has been appointed 

 ''' Pennsylvania's new commissioner of forestry, suc- 

 ceeding Gifford Pinchot, who resigned. Major Stuart 

 was born in Pennsylvania, at Carlisle, in 1883. He was 

 educated in the public schools of Carlisle and Harrisburg, 

 and was graduated from Dickinson College in 1903. A 

 year later he entered the Yale Forest school, graduating 

 in 1906. He was then appointed to the United States 

 Forest Service, and assigned to forest management in 

 Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. 



In 1912, Major Stuart was transferred to Washington, 

 D. C, where he was in charge of general forest adminis- 

 tration. He was appointed a captain in the Engineer 

 Reserve Corps for service in the foresi regiment. He 

 was sent to France immediately to assist in the acquisi- 

 tion of timber for the American forestry regiments. 



He was made a major the following year, and later 

 was placed in command of the Fifth Battalion, Twentieth 



R. Y. STUART 

 Pennsylvania's New Forester 



Upon his discharge from the army. Major Stuart re- 

 turned to the Federal Forest Service, serving as chief 

 of the western branch of forest management until he was 

 named deputy commissioner of forestry in Pennsylvania 

 on May 25, 1920. 



PINES 



/ love the noble presence of the pines 

 Whether they rise in long and lofty lines 

 Or singly stand at ward 



Upon some stretch of smooth and sloping sward. 

 A majesty sublime they wear for me. 

 Something of Deity in every tree. 



Clinton Scollard. 



