

AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 





1899. 



THE FORESTER. 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



Devoted to Arboriculture and Forestry, the 



Care and Use of Forests and Forest 



Trees, and Related Subjects. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The Forester is the Official Organ of 



The American Forestry Association, 



Hon. James Wilson, Sec'y of Agriculture, 

 President. 



THE OFFICE OF PUBLICATION IS 



Xo. 107 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C, 



where all communications should be addressed. 



The subscription price is One Dollar a year, 

 and single copies are sold at ten cents. 



Make all checks, drafts, etc., payable to The 

 Forester. 



SPECIAL ANNOUNCEflENT. 



The next issue of The Forester will be the 

 Christmas number. It is the intention of the 

 editor to make it noteworthy in a number of 

 ways. There will be more of the new features 

 which have marked the recent progress of 

 the magazine, and which have received the 

 warm commendation of its readers. Its con- 

 tents will be even more diversified than usual. 



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The Forester during the year 1899 has 

 aimed to commend itself on its own merits to 

 all who should look through its pages. If the 

 editor may judge from letters written by its 

 readers, it has improved in quality as well as in 

 size and appearance, and it is confidently be- 

 lieved that the Christmas issue will be voted the 

 best and most attractive number of a 

 volume. 



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But this end has not been reached without in- 

 creased expenditures of a very considerable sort, 

 cheerfully authorized in the firm belief that the 

 improved magazine would be more welcome 

 than ever to its old friends, through whose help, 

 linked with the efforts of the management, The 

 Forester would reach many new subscribers. 

 And in the consummation of this plan every 

 friend of forestry can do yeoman's service. 



" Rally 'round the tree" is the watch word, a 

 little energy and personal influence the requis- 

 ites. Public interest in forestry is everywhere 

 increasing rapidly, in proportion as its impor- 

 tance becomes known. To bring the subject 

 forward, The Forester makes the following 

 offer : To all who subscribe during the present 

 month will be sent The Forester up to Jan- 

 uary 1, 1901, with the issues of the last three 

 months of this year, including the handsome 

 Christmas number fifteen months for $ r.oo. 



Attention is also asked to the blank applica- 

 tion for membership in The American Forestry 

 Association, to be found on the page facing page 

 270 of this issue. Let each member have this 

 filled in and returned by a prospective new mem- 

 ber. All applications come before the commit- 

 tee on membership for ratification. New mem- 

 bers whose annual dues are paid during the 

 current month will be furnished the above men- 

 tioned copies of The Forester gratis. Dupli- 

 cate blanks with -any further information may 

 be secured by addressing The American Fores- 

 try Association, Washington, D. C. 



There are many evidences of a public awaken- 

 ing throughout the United States to the realiza- 

 tion that the perpetuation of forests is a matter 

 directly affecting the welfare of state and nation. 

 There can be no denying the fact that the at- 

 tention of thoughtful people has been much 

 aroused lately to the importance of the sub- 

 ject. 



The prospect of a great National Park in 

 northern Minnesota has stimulated other parts 

 of the country to action. In a letter to The 

 Forester, a member of the American Forestry 

 Association says of this movement : 



" Western North Carolina, it seems to us here, 

 is par excellence the place for a National Park. 

 Thousands upon thousands of acres of virgin 

 forest, at an altitude ranging from 2,000 to 6,000 

 feet, are now inviting such a beneficent move- 

 ment. Apart from the Vauderbilt forest of 

 nearly 100,000 acres, the woodman's ax is fast 

 getting in its work in this most beautiful moun- 

 tain section of America, and a few years from 

 now the opportunity of establishing a National 

 Park here may be lost. Senator J. D. Pritchard, 

 a man of ability and influence, is interesting 

 himself in the project and I bespeak for the en- 

 terprise your cooperation." 



