The Porester. 



Vol. VII. 



SEPTEMBER, 1901. 



No. 9. 



SUMMER MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ASSOCIATION. 



THE summer meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association was held 

 at Denver, Col., August 27-29, in 

 affiliation with the American Association 

 for the Advancement of vScience. 



This meeting was a distinctly western 

 one, and the papers and discussions were 

 mainly upon the forest problems now most 

 prominently before the western states, 

 fires, grazing in the forest reserves, and 

 relation of forests to water supply. The 

 members in attendance included many of 

 the best known workers in the cause of 

 forestry, and at the several sessions there 

 was read a series of most timely papers on 

 the subjects noted above. These papers 

 will be published in full in forthcoming 

 numbers of The Forester. 



Morning and afternoon sessions were 

 held daily at the Denver High School 

 building. There was a public meeting on 

 Wednesday evening, August 28, at the 

 Central Presbyterian Church. 



The morning session on the opening 

 day, Tuesday, August 27, was devoted to 

 the transaction of business, presentation of 

 communications, memorials and the ap- 

 pointment of committees. The afternoon 

 was devoted to the reading and discussion 

 of papers on United States Government 

 forest work. 



Both the morning and afternoon sessions 

 of the second day were devoted to irriga- 

 tion and hydrography. 



A most interesting set of papers were 

 presented and there was considerable dis- 

 cussion. The program of the public 



meeting on the evening of the second day 

 was made up of illustrated lectures by Mr. 

 Gifford Pinchot and Mr. F. II. Newell, 

 and addresses by the Hon. Piatt Rn-vr- 

 and Mr. GeorgeH. Maxwell. 



The third and last day of the meeting 

 was devoted to the reading of papers on 

 miscellaneous topics and to completion of 

 unfinished business. 



Proceedings 

 morning session. 



Tuesday, August 2Jth. 



The opening session began promptly at 

 10:30, Tuesday morning in the Denver 

 High School Building, with Mr. Henry 

 Michelsen, Vice-President for Colorado, 

 in the chair, and Mr. Otto J. J. Lueb- 

 kert, Acting Secretary. Mr. Michelsen 

 introduced Hon. Thomas M. Patterson, 

 United States Senator from Colorado, who 

 made the address of welcome. Senator 

 Patterson in greeting the members of the 

 American Forestry Association, touched 

 upon the great need of forest -preservation 

 for the state of Colorado, saying that he 

 was in sympathy with the work of the As- 

 sociation, and that he was glad to offer his 

 own support and that of his paper. The 

 Rockv Mountain News, to the cause. 



Following the address of welcome a 

 memorial on the late Dr. Charles Mohr 

 was read. The morning session ended 

 with the appointment 03 the chair oi a 

 Committee on Resolutions. The com- 

 mittee selected was Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 



