1900. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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must divest their institutions of old laws 

 and customs, and make them over to fit 

 their local conditions. They must grapple 

 with the problem of reclaiming their lands 

 and making them ready for the settlers of 

 the future. But only the nation can legis- 

 late as to the forest, the grazing lands, 

 and the many important streams which 

 flow across State and national boundaries." 



tional Board of Trade, the National Asso- 

 ciation of Merchants and Travellers, and 

 the Missouri Press Association. 



Stealing Wood 

 After a Fire. 



In the Revue des Eaux et 

 Forets the following notice 

 appeared some months ago : 

 "After several fires in the Montague 

 Noir comes the announcement of fire in 

 the Landes, spreading from the region of 

 Laborheyre and Parentis-en-Born to Mimi- 

 zan over thousands of hectares of Pine 

 lands. An innocent man amused himself 

 burning the herbage in the midst of a 

 country baked by the heat of dog days 

 near forests of Pine. Hatred and ill-will 

 incited criminal hands to imitate this ex- 



"A trusteeship of all the public lands ample. The fire traversed thousands of 

 remaining by the government and a reser- hectares of forest, as in America, destrov- 



Endprsed by 

 National Busi- 

 ness League. 



The Executive Committee 

 of the National Business 

 League endorsed the plans 

 of the Irrigation Association at its meet- 

 ing in Chicago on September 26th. Reso- 

 lutions were drawn up in which the fol- 

 lowing were the four points dwelt upon : 



vation of the same for actual settlers, with 

 no grants to States or corporations for any 

 purpose." 



"The preservation of forests and the re- 

 forestation of denuded areas, for 

 the preservation of existing water 

 supplies." 



"Federal storage reservoirs to 

 conserve flood waters that now go to 

 waste, as recommended in the Chit- 

 tenden government report, under 

 the established policy of river con- 

 trol." 



"Reservoirs, dams and main-line 

 canals, to be built by the govern- 

 ment where necessary to reclaim 

 the arid government lands." 



It was resolved to send a copy 

 of the resolutions to all the com- 

 mercial organizations in the United 

 States, and to ask for their endorse- 

 ment and cooperation in securing 

 for the policy the support of Sena- 

 tors and Congressmen. Among 

 the local and national organizations 

 that had already given the program 

 of the Irrigation Association their 

 support were the Commercial Club 

 of St. Paul, the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of St. Paul, the Commercial 

 Club of Omaha, the Missouri River Hard- 

 ware Jobber's Association, the Trans- 



It is astonishing, 



ingeverything in its way. 

 considering the slight attention accorded to 

 the laws or restrictive regulations, that such 

 disasters should not have occurred earlier 



STEALING WOOD AFTER A FIRK IX TUi: I.ANDKS 



during the great heat of 

 it rains !" 



At 



Mississippi Commercial Congress, the St. Such a statement and such a picture 



Louis Manufacturer's Association, the Na- prises an American who has been taught 



