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Mr. Pinchot stated that he had tried to bring out the same idea last night. 

 Mr. Kinney thought that any overstocking of pasture lands was disastrous. He 

 thought that the leasing of public lands necessitated a strong and able body of 

 men in control, and that it was inadvisable to undertake such a policy until we can 

 surely control it. 



Professor Shinn expressed his pleasure at the good prospects of forestry in 

 California, and related his first experiences in Southern California years ago. He 

 knew of no place in the United States so well adapted for comprehensive work, 

 and no place where we can learn so many lessons. This convention is just the 

 beginning of a comprehensive organization, he said. He wished every one could 

 see the Sequoia and be uplifted thereby. He thought there was no greater work 

 than to save the forests. If we keep the forests alive, we are aiding to preserve 

 civilization. Let us go home feeling that we are brothers in a great work for the 

 forests, he said, as against the destructive forces arrayed against them. 



Mr. Baldwin, President of Pomona College, thought an important question 

 was, where the water comes out. In his land, he said, at a height of 7,000 feet 

 one miner's inch of water was worth fifty cents a day. His question was how to 

 get it before it was lost. If it can be done by planting Sequoias above the 7,000- 

 foot level, it would pay to do it. He was willing to spend some money if it would 

 pay. He wanted to know what to do with the ten or twenty thousand acres on the 

 high levels; the rainfall is from twenty to fifty inches; there is plenty of soil and a 

 good deal of natural forest. 



Professor Dudley thought we ought to call upon the Government experts in 

 such matters; he had no doubt that they would take up such points and that the 

 number of experts would be increased if the people requested it. Mr. Richards 

 called attention to the fact that trees and roots make conduits for the water into the 

 soil. His experience had been that the efficiency of these conduits depends upon 

 their size; that is, the size of the tree, and consequently it never would pay to plant 

 trees that grow to any great size; smaller ones are much better. Mr. Kinney said 

 that in Australia there are portions where there are no springs, but the natives take 

 the roots of trees and plants, cut them in sections and hang them up and get enough 

 moisture to live on. 



Mr. Pinchot, in reply to Professor Dudley, stated that the Government would be 

 only too glad to send experts to take up all such questions in the way he had sug- 

 gested; all they wanted was the work to do and the money with which to do it. 



At the evening session Mr. F. H. Newell, the Corresponding Secretary of the 

 Association, and Hydrographer of the United States Geological Survey, gave an 

 illustrated lecture on the work of his division and the different methods of obtain- 

 ing, preserving and utilizing water supplies in different parts of the country. 



Following this Mr. George H. Maxwell, Executive Chairman of the National 

 Irrigation Congress, addressed the meeting on "Nature's Storage Reservoirs," be- 

 ing a concise commentary on the subject, as published in this issue. 



Col. Adolph Wood then took the chair and Mr. Kinney read a paper on " For- 

 est Problems in the West." 



At its conclusion, Mr. Maxwell, for the Committee on Resolutions, submitted 

 its report, which was unanimously adopted, as published in full, hereto attached. 



Mr. Whittlesey moved a vote of thanks to the Forest and Water Society of 

 Southern California for its cordial assistance in making this meeting of The Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association a success. He also moved the thanks of the Association 

 to the newspapers of the city and the State for the generous manner in which they 

 had published advance notices of the meeting, and for their full and able reports of 

 the proceedings. These motions were carried. 



The convention then adjourned. 



