1900. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



Oregon, one in California and one in the Adirondacks. Those detailed for the West 

 secured data of value on the growth and reproduction of the Red Fir and Redwood, 

 which will be worked up in the form of a preliminary report on those trees. The 

 assistants are taking up their work well and prove an important addition to the work- 

 ing force of the Division. Above all, they are undergoing a preparatory training 

 which will fit them at some future time to meet the call for technically trained men, 

 which the rapid growth of forestry in the country will soon make heard. 



THE FORESTER passed, in April, under the charge of Mr. Stauffer, its new editor, 

 who has materially improved the make-up of the paper and won for it a largely 

 increased circulation and appreciation the latter being shown by frequent letters of 

 approval which the editor has received from members of the association, and the former 

 by the following : In the treasurer's report last year was recorded but one subscription 

 to THE FORESTER, showing the magazine had no circulation outside the association 

 membership. This year the treasurer has received from subscriptions, less agents' dis- 

 counts, the sum of $114.87. It is but fair to attribute these individual subscriptions to 

 the improved character of the magazine. During the same time 203 new members 

 have joined the association. 



The extent of the improvement can be best understood from the following figures 

 comparing the corresponding periods of 1898 and 1899: May to November, 1898, 

 inclusive, body articles, 34, notes, 37, news items, 3; May to November, 1899, 

 inclusive, body articles, 50, notes, 99, news items, 153. 



In 1898 one number consisted of 16 pages, of which but 10 pages were reading 

 matter; during the same period of 1899 every number had at least 32 pages, and several 

 as many as 40 pages complete. 



In considering the treasurer's report it is interesting to note that had the annual dues 

 been paid promptly by all the members there would have been no necessity for draw- 

 ing upon the bonds of the Association for temporarv assistance. 



Another fact worthy of note is that the expenditures for 1898 included but 1 1 months' 

 issues of THE FORESTER (January to November, 1898, inclusive). The present report 

 includes not only 12 regular issues, larger in average number of pages as well as in 

 size of edition (the July issue having amounted to 6,500 copies, nearly three times the 

 usual monthly edition of 1898), but in addition thereto there was a reprint of the No- 

 vember, 1898, issue (the original edition having been but 1,500 copies), the additional 

 cost being included in this year's expenditures. These facts seem pertinent to the treas- 

 urer's report. 



The Resolutions Adopted. 



Report of the Committee on Resolutions at the Annual Meeting, 1899. 



The American Forestry Association ex- 

 presses its deep appreciation of the recent 

 legislation and increased appropriations 

 made by the Congress of the United .States 

 for the protection of forests and the de- 

 velopment of forest management. The 

 active interest of the Secretary of the 

 Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 

 in devising wise systems of administering 

 these laws is heartilv commended. 



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The popular approval of the action of 

 the President of the United States in 

 creating new forest reserves points to the 



desirability of reserving the whole area of 

 public forest lands, a proposition which 

 this association fully endorses. 



The Federal laws relating to the public 

 forest lands are now administered by three 

 distinct branches of the government : the 

 General Land Office and the Geological 

 Survey, in the Interior Department, and 

 the Division of Forestry, in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. This is a situation 

 which is prejudicial to sound coordina- 

 tion and economic administration of the 

 various branches of the forest service. 



