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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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The Forester, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



The American Forestry Association, 



AND 



Devoted to Arboriculture and Forestry, the 



Care and Use of Forests and Forest 



Trees, and Related Subjects. 



The Forester assumes no responsibility for 

 opinions expressed in signed articles. 



All members of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion receive the Forester free of charge. Annual 

 fee for regular members $2.00. An application blank 

 will be found in the back of this number. 



All contributions and communications should be 

 addressed to the Editor, 



100 Atlantic Building, Washington, D.C. 



Subscriptions and remittances should be sent to 

 41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa., or 100 Atlantic 

 Building, Washington, D. C. 



Copyright, 1901, by the American Forestry As- 

 sociation. 



Vol. VII. 



JUNE, 1901. 



No. 6. 



The Denver The summer meeting of 



Meeting. American Forestry Asso- 



ciation, announced for 

 Denver, July 10-1 2th, has been postponed, 

 owing to the calling off of the meeting of 

 the National Irrigation Association. The 

 Association will, however, meet in affilia- 

 tion with the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, at Denver, 

 Colorado, August 27-29th inclusive. The 

 committee in charge hope to make this 

 meeting one of the best in the history of Hydrography," by Frederick II. Newell; 

 the Association, and a large attendance is "Alaskan Forests," by C. Hart Merriam ; 



were taken into the Division as student- 

 assistants, and sent to the field under 

 framed foresters to learn something 

 their business by practical work. At 

 end of the field season some of these men 

 returned to their work in the universities, 

 some came to Washington to continue with 

 the Division. 



In addition to the regular work, which 

 was made as instructive for these men as 

 the necessity for accomplishing as much 

 as possible with a limited appropriation 

 would permit, weekly meetings were held, 

 at which papers on various phases of for- 

 estry were read and discussed. These 

 meetings were made to cover not only 

 subjects of technical forestry, but also a 

 sufficient range of allied topics to give the 

 student-assistants a right point of view 

 and a just perspective in forest work. 

 The resources of Washington in scientific 

 men and material were widely drawn 

 upon, and the series of talks at these 

 meetings was such as could not have been 

 held in any other city. The attendance 

 for the first year was from 15 to 30; this 

 year it has increased to from 40 to 75. 

 During the present season the charge of 

 the meetings has been taken over by the 

 Society of American Foresters. 



Some of the subjects and speakers were : 

 "Forest Fires in New Jersey." by Henry 

 S. Graves; "The Methods and Aims of 



expected. The full program, including a 

 list of the speakers, will be published in 

 the July number of the Forester. 



The Training When active field work 

 of Government in the Division of For- 

 Foresters. estry began, nearly three 



years ago, one of the 

 principal obstacles to its success was the 

 lack of men. Trained foresters in any- 

 thing like sufficient numbers did not exist 

 in this country and for many reasons it 

 was unadvisable to import them from 

 abroad. Nothing: remained but to educate 

 them. For that purpose, young men, 

 chiefly college graduates, who had deter- 

 mined to make forestry their profession, 



"Forest Growth and Sheep Grazing," by 

 Frederick V. Coville; "Forest Manag 

 ment in the Dehra Dun Conservancy of 

 British India," by F. E. Olmsted: For- 

 est Problems in the Southern Tine Belt," 

 by J. A. Holmes; "Commercial Forest 

 Plantations in the Middle West." by Wil- 

 liam L. Hall; "Forests of the Olympic 

 Peninsula in Washington," by Henry 

 Gannett. 



The Society of American Foresters 

 numbers among its members two Presi- 

 dents of the United State-, one Vice- 

 President, four Cabinet Officers, and prac- 

 tically all of the professional foresters in 

 the United States. Its meetings ma) 

 therefore be expected to attract speake 

 of reputation and experience. 



Chas. I>. 



