1900. AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 93 



THK KORKSTKR. 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



DEVOTED TO ARBORICULTURE AND FORESTRY, THE CARE AND USE OF FORESTS 



AND FOREST TREES, AND RELATED SUBJECTS. 

 THE OFFICIAI, ORGAN OF 



The American Horestry Association, 



President, Hon. JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



The subscription price of THE FORESTER is One Dollar a year, single copies ten cents. 

 All checks and drafts should be made payable to THE FORESTER, and all communications ad- 

 dressed to the office of publication, 107 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. 



THE FORESTER assumes no responsibility for views expressed by contributors in signed com- 

 munications. 



JOHN KEIM STAUFFER, EDITOR. 



The founding of a school of forestry at Yale University by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pinchot 

 and the Messrs. Piuchot seems to mark the beginning of a very desirable end which is nothing 

 more nor less than the establishment of forest schools in connection with every educational institu- 

 tion of importance in the United States. Until very recently the somewhat prevalent idea that 

 forestry was less useful than ornamental detracted from the consideration it rightly deserved. 

 Lately, however, the insistent utterances of those who are in a position to know the actual facts 

 have reached the general public with such success that forestry has taken a long stride forward as 

 a matter for public consideration. 



This more general appreciation of forestry is noticeable in many parts of the country. With 

 the announcement of the Yale Forest School comes news of some latent efforts among three col- 

 leges in Pennsylvania, each of which wishes to outstrip its competitors in offering courses in 

 forestry ; of legislative provision being made for affording the use of government land in Califor- 

 nia for demonstration purposes and in North Dakota for assistance in establishing a school of 

 forestry as reviewed in the present and preceding issues of THE FORESTER. The great efforts 

 being made by Dr. Fernow at the New York State College of Forestry ; Commissioner Rothrock's 

 work in establishing reserves in Pennsylvania ; Chief Warden Andrews' agitation for the Minne- 

 sota National Park ; and the united efforts of public-spirited citizens in the South for an Appala- 

 chian National Park along the Smoky Range in North Carolina all augur well for a better and 

 more general understanding of what forestry means, and what it seeks to accomplish. 



Under such auspicious circumstances an immediate and considerable increase in the member- 

 ship of The American Forestry Association ought to be insured. On this point THE FORESTER 

 takes pleasure in announcing the election during the past month of two new life members Hon. 

 Cornelius N. Bliss, former Secretary of the Interior, and Hon. Warren Delano, Jr., of New York 

 City ; and also more than one hundred and forty annual members in the last six weeks. Among 

 the latter are Hon. Carl Schurz, President D. C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, Governor 

 Voorhees of New Jersey, Hon. C. C. Beaman, of New York City, and many other prominent men 

 throughout the country. 



As The American Forestry Association is not a commercial "business," but an organization 

 of, by, andybr its members, THE FORESTER feels no hesitancy in asking the assistance of those 

 members in increasing the efficiency and possibilities both of the association and its magazine by 

 drawing to its support many new members. A few words from a member to a personal acquaint- 

 ance will often carry more weight than all the printed circulars which, the Association might send 

 out. There is a blank form of application in every issue. By having this filled in and returned by 

 a prospective new member every reader of THE FORESTER will not only help the cause of forestry ; 

 but will just as surely subserve his own best interests for with increased funds will come new 

 opportunities for making THE FORESTER better in every succeeding month than it was in any 

 month past. THE FORESTER asks your cordial co-operation for the expansion of your association 

 and its magazine. 



