NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS 



Green, dean of the School of Forestry 

 of the University of Minnesota, who 

 taught for twenty-two years in the 

 State Agricultural School. It was 

 adopted by the delegates all standing 

 in their places. The resolution follows : 



Whereas, Samuel B. Green, dean of the 

 School of Forestry of the University of Min- 

 nesota, and for twenty-two years a teacher 

 in the State Agricultural School, has re- 

 cently been called to his reward; 



And whereas, Prof. Green has for yeai 

 ranked as one of the most prominent an 

 progressive instructors in forestry, and hi 

 been a great force in the cause of developin 

 and conserving our natural resources; then 

 fore be it 



Resolved, that in the death of Prof. Gree 

 the State of Minnesota and the nation hi 

 lost a distinguished citizen, and the cause c 

 forestry one of its most valuable assets. 



Resolved, that a copy of these resolutior 

 and an expression of our sympathy be foi 

 warded to Mrs. Green. 



THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



Edwin A. Start, executive secretary 

 of the American Forestry Association, 

 submitted the following statement on 

 behalf of his Association : 



No organization can more appropri- 

 ately than the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation make its statement an I its 

 appeal to this congress. This Asso- 

 ciation is the first of our conservation 

 organizations. It has a past of nearly 

 thirty years to which it can point with 

 pride of real achievement ; an active and 

 efficient, though not a noisy, present ; 

 and a future of ever enlarging oppor- 

 tunity. 



In a very real sense we may say that 

 the work of this Association, through 

 long years of much misunderstood 

 effort under the able guidance of the 

 great leaders of the American forestry 

 movement, made this congress possi- 

 ble ; for it was through the study of 

 forestry and its relation to the country 

 that the whole problem of our na- 

 tional resources came to be understood. 

 The man who has given the conserva- 

 tion of natural resources its impetus, 

 with the -help of his distinguished chief, 

 then President of the United States, 

 was the recognized leader, the apostle 

 and evangelist of the forestry move- 

 ment ; and to-day no portion of our 

 natural resources holds a more import- 

 ant place than the forests. They are 

 inseparably linked with soils and waters, 

 both of which depend upon them in 

 great measure, and as a product of the 

 soil nothing exceeds the forest in value 

 and in necessity to human welfare. 

 Forests, like agricultural crops, belong 



to the renewable class of products an 

 their maintenance involves much mor 

 complicated and permanent problem 

 than the non-renewable products lik 

 minerals, oil, and gas. 



Therefore, we conceive the field c 

 our Association to be vital and lastin 

 and so broad, many-sided and far 

 reaching as to amply justify the exisl 

 ence of an association dedicated to tli 

 advancement of scientific forestry fo 

 the best utilization of our forest land 

 for all time. 



Our appeal is to the citizen who de 

 sires to promote the economic an' 

 moral welfare of the nation, for mora 

 welfare comes only through good eco 

 nomics and such management of natu 

 ral resources as makes for prosperity 

 It is to the lumberman and to all manu 

 facturers who use forest products, fo 

 to them this is a subject that touche 

 the permanence of their industries. I 

 is to the educator who looks beyon< 

 mere cultural education and believe 

 that our education must more am 

 more fit men and women to cope witl 

 the complex problems of modern life 

 In this last connection we shall sooi 

 announce plans recently set on foot fo 

 giving practical and definite assistana 

 to those teachers who wish to brim 

 tlif fundamental principles of forestn 

 into their work, but who do not knov 

 how. \Ye shall try to show them hov 

 in a systematic and practical way. 



Our work is independent of that o 

 the Government, but conducted in clos< 

 touch with it. As an independent bod; 



