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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Southern Conservation Congress 



Out of a plan to call together leaders of 

 conservation in the State of Georgia for the 

 purpose of forming a Georgia conservation 

 asseciation, has developed the larger project 

 of a Southern Conservation Congress at At- 

 lanta, October 8 and 9, to discuss the prob- 

 lems of utilizing to the best permanent ad- 

 vantage the resources of the South as a 

 whole. This congress, coming as it does 

 almost at the close of the Appalachian Ex- 

 position at Knoxville, emphasizes the earn- 

 estness of purpose and the progressive spirit 

 in which the Southern people are apparently 

 determined to deal with their immense nat- 

 ural advantages. 



Theodore Roosevelt, Hoke Smith, Gov- 

 ernor-elect of Georgia, Gifford Pinchot, Dr. 

 Harvey W. Wiley, Chief Forester Henry S. 

 Graves and other leaders of the conserva- 

 tion movement of national reputation have 

 accepted invitations to address the congress. 



Governor Brown, oi Georgia, will open 

 the first day's meeting and the mayor of 

 Atlanta, Robert F. Maddox, will follow with 

 an address of welcome. Gifford Pinchot 

 will address the congress on the "Principles 

 of Conservation," and Charles S. Barrett, 

 president of the Farmers' Union, who has 

 been a leader in the movement in Georgia, 

 will speak on the "Conservation of Farm 

 Resources." Among those to address the 

 congress at other sessions are the following: 

 B. N. Baker, the retiring president of the 

 vNational Conservation Congress; Dr. C. 

 Willard Hayes, chief geologist, United 

 States geological survey; Dr. A. M. Soule, 

 president of the Georgia State Agriculture 

 College; H. S. Graves, chief forester of the 

 United States; Dr. W J McGee, soil-water 

 expert, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture ; Frederick J. Paxton, president At- 

 lanta Chamber of Commerce ; Paul Nor- 

 cross, Atlanta; Dr. H. F. Harris, State 

 Board of Health ; K. G. Matheson, president 

 Georgia School of Technology ; Rev. C. B. 

 Wilmer and Rev. J. W. Lee, Atlanta; Mrs. 

 H. M. Willett, Atlanta; Dr. Alfred Aker- 

 man, professor of forestry, University of 

 Georgia; Mrs. J. K. Ottley, Atlanta, and Dr. 

 Joseph Hyde Pratt, president Southern Ap- 

 palachian Good Roads Association. 



Secretary James Wilson, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture ; Henry Wallace, of 

 Iowa, the new president of the National 

 Conservation Congress ; Governor Stubbs 

 of Kansas ; former Governor Blanchard, of 

 Louisiana, all the governors of the southern 



states and various state officers and mayors 

 of cities have beea invited to attend, and a 

 number of them are expected to have a place 

 on the program. 



Land and Irrigation Exposition at Pittsburgh 



There will be held in Pittsburgh, October 

 17 to 29, a Land and Irrigation Exposition, 

 at which the Forest Serivce will have a for- 

 est exhibit in charge of a representative who 

 will deliver illustrated lectures daily upon 

 various forest topics. 



E. E. Carter, assistant forester in the U. 

 S. Forest Service, has resigned to accept 

 the position of assistant professor of for- 

 estry in the Harvard Forestry School. He 

 has already taken up his new duties. 



To Salvage Timber from Idaho Fires 



According to the Paper Mill, millions of 

 feet of good pulp wood which a month ago 

 was thought lost in the forest fires in the 

 Idaho "panhandle," will be saved, together 

 with billions of feet of lumber logs, by an 

 organized movement to salvage the fire 

 swept district. In the hope of saving at 

 least 90 per cent, of the timber left standing 

 in this district, a combination of lumber and 

 land companies will log off thousands of 

 acres of this land within the next two years 

 and store the logs in Cceur d'Alene Lake. 



Inventory of Canadian Forests 



The Canadian Commission for the Con- 

 servation of Natural Resources, of which 

 the Hon. Clifford Sifton is the chairman, 

 has planned an extensive program of work 

 for the various committees which constitute 

 that body. An effort will be made by the 

 committee on forests to get together the 

 best available information in regard to tim- 

 ber still standing, its quantity, its quality, 

 acreage, and the acreage owned respectively 

 by private individuals, the provinces and 

 the Dominion. 



The committee will also make a study of 

 the results which would attend the prohibi- 

 tion of the export of logs. 



The Indian Forest Service 



The recently organized Indian forest ser- 

 vice, with a view to assisting the Indians to 

 obtain the greatest benefit from the forests 

 on their reservations, is formulating exten- 

 sive plans for the operations during the cur- 

 rent fiscal year. The new service is in the 

 Department of the Interior. The proceeds 

 from the sale of timber produced on the 

 Indian forest lands are used solely fer the 

 benefit of the Indians and the greater por- 

 tion of the $110,000 which the service nlans 



