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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with op- 

 portunity to specialize in 

 General Forestry, Log- 

 ging Engineering, and 

 Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course of 

 high school grade, cover- 

 ing three years of five 

 months each. 



Special Short Course cover- 

 ing twelve weeks design- 

 ed for those who cannot 

 take the time for the 

 fuller courses. 



Correspondence Course in 

 Lumber and Its Uses. No 

 tuition, and otherwise ex- 

 penses are the lowest. 



For Further Particulars Address 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



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adapted to reforestation made possible by 

 a bond issue of 50 to 100 years maturity 

 so the burden may be equally distributed 

 through generations. Urging that large 

 holdings by the states will present a steady 

 and permanent source of supply which will 

 stabilize timber prices 



Resolved, That this Conference urges 

 upon our representatives in the Congress, 

 the necessity for largely increased appro- 

 priations under the purchase clause of the 

 Weeks Act, to extend the area of national 

 forests, and particularly into the hardwood 

 regions of West Virginia, Kentucky and 

 Tennessee, from which the tree states con- 

 cerned already draw a large portion of 

 their hardwood supply. 



Be it further urged, that the Federal 

 Congress appropriate adequate funds for 

 co-operation with the states in forestry, as 

 it is doing in road building, agricultural 

 extension, vocational education and other 

 activities, with the especial object of en- 

 couraging farm forestry extension under 

 the Smith-Lever Act, reforestation of idle 

 lands and protection against fire. Be it 



Resolved, That the states launch an ex- 

 tensive and thorough campaign through the 

 press, the schools, the pulpit and mails, to 

 arouse the public to the need of a state 

 forest policy and necessity of action to- 

 ward the assurance of a permanent timber 

 supply. 



It is furthermore urged, that forestry 

 education shrould be made a progressive 

 part of the public school curriculum. 



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THE WEEKS LAW POLICY 



T> EPRESENTATIVE Zebulon Weaver 

 has introduced a bill (H. R. 10372) 

 into Congress asking for an appropriation 

 of two million dollars a year for the next 

 five years "to be expended under the act 

 of March I, 1911" (the Weeks Law), for 

 the purchase of forest lands in the White 

 Mountains of New England and the 

 Southern Appalachians, with the avowed 

 purpose of protecting the headwaters of 

 our larger streams. 



This is not a new policy, but is a con- 

 tinuation of a policy endorsed by Congress 

 a number of times. The purchases began 

 in 191 1 with an appropriation of two mil- 

 lion dollars a year for five years. As 

 three million dollars of this was allowed 

 to lapse, it was re-appropriated by Con 

 gress two or three years ago. Last year 

 this policy was again endorsed, but only 

 $600,000 was appropriated, owing to the 

 exceptional conditions due to the war. 



The demand is now being made to put 

 this policy on a more business-like basis 

 by again making the expenditures cover a 

 period of years. This has two very dis- 

 tinct advantages. It allows the govern- 

 ment to compete with other possible pur- 

 chasers, by allowing them to know that 

 they will have a definite amount to spend 

 for the next several years. It also enables 

 the Forest Service, which is engaged in the 



acquisition ot tne lands, to maintain a 

 very much more effective and permanent 

 organization of experts who are already 

 trained in the various activities connected 

 with purchasing. 



THE SECOND SOUTHERN 

 FORESTRY CONGRESS 

 'T'HE second meeting of the Southern 

 Forestry Congress will be held in New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday, January 28, 29 and 30, 1920. It 

 will be recalled that the first Congress was 

 held in Asheville, North Carolina, three 

 years ago. 



It is planned to devote the first day of 

 this meeting to a discussion of the needs 

 of the South for forestry, with special ref- 

 erence to the timberland policy for private- 

 ly owned lands now being proposed by 

 the Federal Government. The United 

 States Forester, Colonel Henry S. Graves, 

 is expected to be present to give the views 

 of the Forest Service on this important 

 question, while leading men in other lines 

 will be asked to present the subject from 

 the points of view of the State, the lumber- 

 man and the local landowner. 



On the second day a more general pro- 

 gram will be carried out, consisting of dis- 

 cussions upon such subjects as the acqui- 

 sition by the Federal Government of forest 

 lands for the production of timber, as 

 well as for the protection of streams; state 

 forestry organizations and policies ; forest 

 fire prevention ; the relation of grazing to 

 timber production on non-agricultural 

 lands ; the future of the naval stores in- 

 dustry, etc. The program for the third 

 day has not yet been outlined, but it will 

 probably be given over to sectional meet- 

 ings, or to field excursions, or both. There 

 will be fewer set speeches than is usual 

 at such meetings, because it is planned to 

 develop free discussion amongst the dele- 

 gates in attendance. The various forestry 

 and lumbering associations, landowners' 

 associations and manufacturers' associa- 

 tions interested in timber production and 

 in the proper development of Southern 

 lands are being asked to co-operate in this 

 meeting, which it is expected will be one 

 of the most important ever held in the 

 South. 



Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, Director of 

 the North Carolina Geological and Eco- 

 nomic Survey, Chapel Hill, N. C, is now 

 president of the Congress, and Mr. J. S. 

 Holmes, State Forester, Chapel Hill, is 

 secretary. Mr. R. D. Forbes, Superintend- 

 ent of Forestry. Louisiana Department of 

 Conservation, New Orleans, has kindly 

 consented to act as assistant secretary, and 

 will attend to all local arrangements. It 

 is hoped that all the Southern States will 

 be fully represented at this Congress. 



NEW FIRM OF FORESTERS 



WILLIAM L. HALL has resigned his 



position as Assistant Forester in the 



United States Forest Service to head the 



