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Vol. VI. 



JUNE, igoo. 



No. 6. 



The Summer Meet- The special summer 

 ing in New York. meet j ng of the Ameri . 



can Forestry Association, which is to be 

 held in New York City, June 25th and 

 26th, promises to be very interesting. It 

 is expected that the President of the 

 Association, Hon. James Wilson, Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, will be present and 

 preside at one or more of the sessions. 

 An interesting program has been ar- 

 ranged, and among those who will speak 

 or contribute papers to the meeting are 

 Mr. Henry Gannett and Mr. F. H. 

 Newell, of the U. S. Geological Survey; 

 Hon. Charles W. Garfield, President of 

 the Michigan Forestry Commission ; Prof. 

 Wm. B. Clark, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity; Dr. B. E. Fernow, Director of 

 the New York State College of Forestry; 

 Col. William F. Fox, Superintendent of 

 State Forests, New York ; Mr. Ernest 

 Bruncken, Secretary of the Wisconsin 

 State Forestry Association ; Dr. J. T. 

 Rothrock, Commissioner of Forestry for 

 Pennsylvania ; Prof. J. W. Tourney, Mr. 

 Henry S. Graves, Mr. Geo. B. Sudworth 

 and Mr. Otto J. J. Luebkert, of the Di- 

 vision of Forestry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture ; Mr. James McNaughton, of 

 New York City ; Prof. Wm. R. Lazenby, 

 of Ohio; Hon. E. V. Preston, President 

 of the Connecticut State Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. 



Among others papers on the following 

 subjects will be presented : The work of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey in the Forest Re- 

 serves, The Michigan Forestry Commis- 

 sion and Its Work, Forest Survey Work 

 in Maryland, Some Adirondack Forest 

 Problems, Adirondack Forest Fires of 

 1899, Fo^st Matters in Wisconsin, Forest 

 Reserves of Pennsylvania, Progress in 

 Tree Planting in the United States, par- 

 ticularly the Middle West, History of 

 Forest Legislation and Administration in 

 the State of New York, Notes on Some 

 Forest Trees of Ohio, Forest Interests in 

 Connecticut, Work of the Federation of 

 Women's Clubs, Forest Insects, Forest 

 Fires. 



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Increase of Appro- On May 2sth, President 

 SKSSVS McKinley signed the "Act 

 estry. making appropriations for 



the Department of Agriculture " by which 

 the Division of Forestry is allowed $80,000 

 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. 

 This sum is just twice as large as the an- 

 nual appropriation for 1899-1900, which, 

 in its turn, doubled the appropriation for 

 the previous year. 



The Division of Forestry could well 

 use many times $80,000 with great profit 

 to the country, but for the time being the 

 appropriation may be considered a matter 

 for rejoicing. It shows that Congress un- 

 derstands better than it did, that the rap- 

 idly deteriorating forest resources of the 

 United States present problems which 

 should be faced and looked after, and that 

 the public is beginning to realize how far 

 from profitable or desirable is indifference 

 to these problems. Once the ball has got 

 well under way too, it can be counted on 

 to grow of itself. The Division can now 

 hope to make its value and importance 

 evident to a much greater extent than it has 

 ever been able to before; and if the in- 

 terest in forestry and the intelligent under- 

 standing of the country's need of it go 

 on increasing, it may even be hoped that 

 people will see soon that in distributing 

 what is really a forester's work, between 

 the General Land Office, the Geological 

 Survey and the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, much waste of time, money and en- 



