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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



State under his leadership is ample testimony to his suc- 

 cess in the practice of what he has so continuously 

 preached in this respect. 



He served for many years as a director of the American 

 Forestry Association and has been an active member of 

 the Society of American Foresters. He was one of the 

 originators and for a long time actively at the head of 

 the Northeastern Forester's Association and has taken 



an active part in the organization and work of the re- 

 cently organized Association of State Foresters. 



The hearty good will of his host of friends and ad- 

 mixers, both within and without the profession which he 

 served, go with him as he lays aside the responsibility 

 of public service. Their hope is that his voice may still 

 be heard around the council table when forestry plans 

 and problems are considered. 



SUB-COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY 



A forward step toward the adoption through legislation 

 of a national forestry policy following the hearings 

 on the Snell bill last January was taken just as the 

 House adjourned in June for six weeks. Chairman G. N. 

 Haugen of the House Committee on Agriculture then an- 

 nounced the appointment of a sub-committee on forestry, 

 consisting of Representatives G. N. Haugen, Iowa; J. C. 

 McLaughlin, Michigan; J. D. Clarke, New York; J. W. 

 Rainey, Illinois, and M. Jones, Texas. This action was 

 taken after conference with Representative Bertrand H. 

 Snell, of New York, the forestry specialist of the House, 



members of the Agricultural Committee, representatives 

 of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, the 

 American Forestry Association, the pulp and paper mak- 

 ers, the newspapers and others industrially interested in 

 the conservative utilization of the forests of the country. 

 It represents an effort to get away from the differences of 

 opinion that have hitherto blocked progress toward the 

 adoption of a public forestry policy, and to attempt to 

 find common ground on which all advocates of such a 

 policy can agree. 



GEORGIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



A S a result of the activities of the Georgia Forestry 

 '* Committee appointed a year and a half ago by the 

 Southern Forestry Congress, the state of Georgia has 

 recently joined the list of some twenty-eight other states 

 in which forestry associations are working to perpetuate 

 our forests. At a meeting held in Macon, Georgia, on 

 June 6 and 7, a permanent Georgia Forestry Association 

 was organized and began work at once. to organize the 

 state in support of a constructive forest policy. The new 

 association hopes that by gathering together the wide- 

 spread forestry sentiment which exists throughout the 

 state,. it will be able to obtain this summer, legislation 

 which will form the first and basic essentials of a strong 

 state forestry department. 



In point of accomplishment, the Macon meeting was 

 one of the most important forestry meetings held in the 

 south during the past year. It not only resulted in the 

 formation of a strong forestry association, but it awak- 

 ened the state to the seriousness of forest depletion as, an 

 economic menace to its future prosperity and develop- 

 ment. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick has become fully 

 alive to the situation and in a direct and clear-cut ad- 

 dress at the Macon meeting, sounded the keynote of the 

 movement to perpetuate the forests and the forest indus- 

 tries of Georgia. He declared that the time has come 

 when the state can no longer shirk its responsibility to 

 protect one of its most vital natural resources from 

 wastage and depletion. He expressed himself strongly 

 in favor of fair and reasonable regulations applicab'* 



to the cutting of timber and to the turpentining of under- 

 sized trees and advocated a state forestry department, 

 supported by special taxation, to be responsible for fire 

 protection and the general promotion of forestry 

 throughout the state. 



Among other speakers who strongly supported the 

 movement were Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president of the 

 State College of Agriculture ; J. J. Brown, Commissioner 

 of Agriculture of the State of Georgia; Thomas W. 

 Gamble, of Savannah, editor of the Naval Stores Review, 

 and Dr. S. W. McCallie, State Geologist. The meeting, 

 which was attended by about one hundred, people from 

 different parts of the state, brought out a surprisingly 

 strong sentiment for immediate action, and while there 

 was some division of opinion on the question of taxa- 

 tion, a spirit of earnest cooperation prevailed through- 

 out. 



The American Forestry Association cooperated with 

 the Georgia Forestry Committee in organizing the meet- 

 ing and in calling public attention to the need of fp'^st 

 action in the state. The Association was represented by 

 its forester, who spent six weeks in ^^^ state prior to 

 the meeting. The immediate s-"^'^ of the new associa- 

 tion is to obtain forestr.;- wgislation at once, the Georgia 

 legislature now Jjeing in session. The forest question 

 is due to cn--"^ "P '" the legislature as a result of that 

 body's *v;tion a year ago in providing for a State Board 

 pt i<orestry to make a special investigation and report 

 on conditions within the state. The legislature, how- 

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