1899. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



Recent Legislation. 



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Minnesota. 



The Minnesota State Forestry Board 

 completed its organization several weeks 

 ago by the election of officers and the 

 appointment of committees. The per- 

 sonnel of the new board, under the pro- 

 visions of the law as published in the 

 June Forester, is as follows: 



C. C. Andrews, of St. Paul, Chief 

 Fire Warden; Prof. Samuel B. Green, 

 of Hamline, for the State Agricultural 

 College; John Cooper, of St. Cloud, 

 Frederick Weyerhaeuser, of St. Paul, 

 and Orville M. Lord, of Minnesota City, 

 for the regents of the State University; 

 Judson N. Cross, of Minneapolis, for 

 the State Forestry Association; Green- 

 leaf Clark, of St. Paul, for the State 

 Agricultural Society; A L. Cole, of 

 Walker, for the State Horticultural 

 Society, and Judge William Mitchell, 

 of the Supreme Court, for the State 

 Game and Fish Commission. 



The board organized by the election 

 of Captain Cross, President; Mr. Clark, 

 Vice President; General Andrews, Sec- 

 retary. A committee was named to per- 

 fect the organization, and consists of 

 Captain Cross, Mr. Green and Mr. 

 Clark. 



An executive committee, made up of 

 the president, secretary and Professor 

 Green, was named for the purpose of 

 arranging at once for a visit of inspec- 

 tion of the Minnesota forests by Profes- 

 sor Schenck, forester of the famous Bilt- 

 more estate. 



The interest of the general public has 

 been shown in the assurances given that 

 in the near future gifts of forest lands 

 aggregating thousands of acres will be 

 made to the board. 



An Achievement of Perseverance. 



The Forest Commission bill which has 

 been signed by the Governor and is now 

 in full operation with Arthur T. Hill, of 

 Saginaw, Charles W. Garfield, of this 



city, and Land Commissioner French as 

 members, is the result of the persistent 

 efforts of one man to have a start made, 

 in an official way, toward forest preser- 

 vation in this State. That man is Mr. 

 Garfield, of this city. Many others 

 have been interested in this work, but 

 Mr. Garfield's experience in the Legis- 

 lature, on the Board of Agriculture, and 

 as an officer in local, State and national 

 horticultural and similar societies, has 

 aided him in finding a v/ay to secure the 

 passage of a bill which provides for 

 taking up the forest matter systemati- 

 cally, where other efforts have failed. 

 Aside from the utilization of waste areas 

 and the effect of deforestation on our 

 climate being possibly responsible for 

 the long summer droughts Michigan did 

 not formerly have the reforestation of 

 the denuded Pine areas of Michigan 

 promises large ultimate profits to the 

 State. But the time between seed time 

 and harvest is so long that capitalists 

 cannot be interested, and the State itself 

 seems to be the only agency adequate to 

 undertake this necessary work. It has 

 been begun none too soon. Editorial, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., Democrat. 



Remunerative Timber Lands in Can- 

 ada. 



The annual report of the Department 

 of Interior of the Dominion of Canada 

 states that the timber dues collected dur- 

 ing the year 1898 amounted to $119,- 

 769.03, being an increase of $50,274.85 

 as compared with the previous year. Of 

 this amount $21,081.26 was for bonuses, 

 ground rents, royalties and dues on tim- 

 ber cut from lands in the railway bek in 

 the province of British Columbia. The 

 total revenue received from timber in 

 Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, 

 and the Yukon territory, up to July 1, 

 1898, was $1,569,893.17, and the total 

 revenue from timber within the railway 

 belt of British Columbia up to same date, 

 $326,086.19. 



