1901 . 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



for a couple of weeks after the new edi- 

 tor's arrival. Besides the members of the 

 Association the magazine now goes to 

 about thirty subscribers and to two hun- 

 dred libraries and exchanges. During the 

 last months the issues have been somewhat 

 larger than during the first part of the year 

 and proportionally more costly. The ex- 

 pense has been more than off-set, however, 

 by the increase in the Association's mem- 

 bership. 



The literature which appears in the 

 Forester has been distributed outside of 

 the Association as far as has been possible. 

 But chiefly for lack of funds this cannot 

 be done to nearly the extent that is desir- 

 able, or even necessary. The magazine 

 now prints every month many pages of 

 matter which is intended expressly to in- 

 form untehnical readers about forestrv 



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and our forest problems. For this to reach 



such a comparatively small audience as at 



present is a misfortunate and a great waste 



of opportunities. Fifteen hundred dollars a 



year might easily and well be spent in the 



dissemination of reading matter which the 



Association is already printing. But this 



amount is still wanting. 



The increase of membership has more 



than doubled its rate during the last year, 



and the membership list is more than fifty 



/-i .1 x;i per cent, larger than in 

 Growth of the F o T t^ u q q 

 A . ,. ibqq. In December, logo, 



Association. ,, yy A , ', << ' 



the Association had 092 



members ; last year the number had in- 

 creased to to 1,025 ; and now it is 1,559. Of 

 these new members, 26 are members for 

 life. The Association has no deficit this 

 year. 



In New York, Pennsylvania, and Mas- 

 sachusetts, and three or four other States 

 the Association is already well represented. 

 In others, however, its membership is still 

 so small as to be quite insignificant. This 

 should not be, and the members in such 

 states as Minnesota, Illinois, and Colorado 

 are urged to make every effort they can 

 to increase the membership in their states. 

 The difficulty of doing this is simply the 

 difficulty of getting at the people who 

 would be glad to join. That many such 



are to be found on every hand can no longer 

 be doubted. 



During the last year the Association has 

 missed no opportunity of aiding and fur- 

 thering the success of projects which are 

 in sympathy with its aims. It has given 

 Efforts in * ts ex P ress backing to such 



the Future. ?$ ect * by resolutions and 

 it has also forwarded them 

 by circulating printed matter, and by 

 bringing to their aid other organizations. 

 This work has borne good fruit. The 

 rapid and unmistakable spread of interest in 

 forestry is due in a large measure to this 

 Association. It has done work which the 

 national and State governments could not 

 have undertaken and has thus far ac- 

 complished more than many of its most 

 sanguine members could have hoped. But 

 there still remains so much for the Asso- 

 ciation to do, and to do so as quickly as 

 possible, that the success of this last year 

 is interesting chiefly as an encouragement 

 to further and greater efforts in the future. 



The Board of Directors takes this op- 

 portunity of urging once more the support 

 of three projects of national importance 



t, , These are proposals to 



Recommenda- , .. T 1 c u 

 make national parks 01 the 



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Calaveras Grove 01 Big 

 Trees in California, of a tract of land in 

 the southern Apalachians, and of the Leech 

 Lake region in northern Minnesota. The 

 Calaveras Grove, the finest and most in- 

 teresting of all Sequoia groves, is now 

 owned by a lumberman, who, unless the 

 grove is purchased this year by Congress, 

 will begin to fell the trees. In the pro- 

 posed Appalachian Park region in North 

 Carolina seven men from the Geological 

 Survey and the Division of Forestry have 

 been making surveys and examinations 

 throughout the summer and fall, and their 

 reports are in preparation. The Minne- 

 sota Park plan is now in the shape of a 

 resolution for the appointment of a Con- 

 gressional committee of investigation. It 

 is very important that this resolution should 

 not be left till the end of the session when 

 other questions could easily be made to 

 take precedence over it. 



