THE ANNUAL MEETING 



RESOLUTIONS outlining the essential features of 

 a national forest policy and calling upon Congress 

 and State Legislature to give earnest consideration 

 to legislative measures to secure such a policy were 

 adopted at the annual meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association, held in New York City on Tuesday, 

 January 13. 



The resolutions stated that: 



Whereas, For nearly a year the American Forestry 

 Association has urged the need of a national forest 

 policy, has conducted a campaign for discussion of its 

 various phases, and by nation-wide publicity has centered 

 the attention of the public upon the necessity for such a 



President Pack in calling the meeting to order com- 

 plimented the members upon the fact that, despite the 

 trials of war time, which caused many organizations, 

 owing to loss of membership, to pass out of existence, 

 the Association was able to hold its own, to retain its mem- 

 bership with losses which were replaced by new members 

 and to approach the work during 1920 sound financially 

 and stronger than ever before. He referred to the wide- 

 spread publicity campaign which has aroused interest in 

 forestry in every section of the country and to the great 

 success of the campaign for stirring up the public to a 

 realization of how essential it is to provide for the per- 

 petuation of our forests. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS' MEETING, JANUARY 13, 1920. 



Standing, left to right and facing the reader: Standish Chard, J. E. Jenks, Col. W. B. Greeley, Prof. H. H. Chapman. 

 Lyman, Alfred Gaskill, President Charles Lathrop Pack, C. F. Quincy, Dr. Henry S. Drinker. 



Seated, C. W. 



policy because our forests are disappearing faster than 

 they are being reproduced. Be it 



Resolved, That the American Forestry Association 

 declare itself in favor of a material increase in federal, 

 state and municipal forests and of adequate federal and 

 state legislation which, through forest fire control, public 

 education, the arrest of denudation and promotion of 

 conservative cutting, more equitable tax laws and ade- 

 quate insurance of forest investments shall provide for 

 the perpetuation of our forests and assure a timber 

 supply for our future needs as well as forests for the 

 protection of watersheds and for purposes of recreation 

 and public benefit ; 



And that the American Forestry Association call upon 

 Congress and state legislatures to give earnest considera- 

 tion to the need of a national forest policy and to legis- 

 lative measures to secure it. 



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He also referred to the participation by an enthusiastic 

 public in the planting of memorial trees, of roadside trees 

 and of trees along "Roads of Remembrance," all earnest- 

 ly advocated by the Association, and pointed out the 

 value of this movement in directing attention to serious 

 questions of forestry and in securing the support of the 

 public for the program for a national forest policy. 



He also emphasized the need, now so well known by 

 the members of the Association and also by the general 

 public, of providing for the perpetuation of the forests 

 and predicted that the public demand for a national 

 forest policy would result in securing the state and fed- 

 eral legislation necessary for such a policy. 



On the presentation of the nominations for officers, 

 Dr. Henry S. Drinker, President of Lehigh University, 

 said: 



"As a past president of the Association I desire to pay 



