1899. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



191 



THE FORESTER. 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



Devoted to Arboriculture and Forestry, the 



Care and Use of Forests and Forest 



Trees, and Related Subjects. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



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The American Forestry Association, 



Hon. James Wilson, Sec'y of Agriculture, 

 President. 



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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. 



In order to present to the readers of The 

 Forester a complete report of the proceedings 

 of the Summer Meeting at Los Angeles, to- 

 gether with the resolutions adopted and some 

 of the valuable papers read, it has been found 

 necessary to curtail some of the usual depart- 

 ments and omit others. 



In compliment to those zealous advocates of 

 forestry in California by whom the American 

 Forestry Association was entertained during 

 the week of the convention, several of the pa- 

 pers published in this issue have special refer- 

 ence to the Pacific Coast. Those of a more 

 general nature, and more applicable to the in- 

 terests of the country at large, have been re- 

 served for future issues, in order that their value 

 may not be in the least impaired as would be 

 the case were any attempt made to compress 

 into a single issue the entire number of papers 

 recorded in the report of the convention. 



The energy displayed by the advocates of 

 the proposed new forest reserve in Northern 

 Minnesota, in the vicinity of Leech Lake, 

 mention of which was made in the July For- 

 ester, has given the project a great impetus, 

 with every indication of a successful outcome* 

 As the plans at present are in a rather tenta- 

 tive ; : it i, x 1 1 > a 1 1 } 3 a: 1 1 1 ; > v i dera 1 1 ded 



by the account of the Summer Meeting, the 

 map and account of the project prepared for 

 this issue have been held over for the September 

 number. 



At the meeting in Chicago, the latter part of 

 July, a joint committee on organization was 

 provided for to promote the best interests of 

 the project. The St. Paul members of the 

 committee are : J. J. Hill, C. P. Noyes, George 

 Thompson, F. A. Young, A. H. Lindeke, A. K. 

 Pruden, E. C. Stringer, Jesse A. Gregg, E. 

 Ganish, Dr. Henry Hutchinson, Dr. Parks 

 Ritchie, Ross Clark, Dr. H. M. Bracken, Dr. 

 C. L. Greene, George F. Gifford. 



A similar delegation of fifteen has been se- 

 lected to represent Minneapolis on the com- 

 mittee, but the names of this contingent have 

 not yet been announced. The organization will 

 be perfected at an adjourned meeting to be 

 held in Chicago on August n. 



The need of forest legislation in Colorado, of 

 which The Forester made mention in the June 

 issue, is well exemplified by the frontispiece of 

 the present number. It is more than likely that 

 citizens of many other States will regard the 

 illustration as applicable quite as well to their 

 own localities. "An ounce of prevention" is 

 a very efficacious prescription, but that the 

 health of the forests is not always conserved in 

 that way, this picture gives evidence. 



The coming issues of The Forester will con- 

 tain, in addition to these convention papers, a 

 number of articles by leading officials of the 

 U. S. Government who are authorities on for- 

 estry in its various phases ; by college profes- 

 sors whose investigations are attracting atten- 

 tion, and by men whose work has been more 

 particularly on the lumbering side of the ques- 

 tion. 



Among the interesting features of the Sep- 

 tember issue will be a very thorough consider- 

 ation of "The Forest Ranger System in the 

 United States," by one whose official position 

 makes his contribution authoritative the Com- 

 missioner of the General Land Office of the De- 

 partment of the Interior. 



The forest resources of the new colonial 

 possessions of the United States will be ac- 

 curately described in a series of papers by 

 writers who have studied them within the past 

 year. The first paper of the series will be 

 published next month under the title : "The 

 Forest Resources of Porto Rico." 



