1901. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 





will soon be a thing of the past. Dr. 

 Herty's investigation was made with the 

 view of devising ways to improve the 

 present threatening conditions, and the re- 

 sult has been the collection of many valu- 

 able facts from which it is felt practical 

 plans will result to assist in the production 

 of naval stores. The results of Dr. 

 Herty's investigation will be published at 

 an early date. 



At a recent meeting of the directors of 

 the American Forestry Association Dr. 

 Herty's work was discussed and produced 

 such a favorable impression that the fol- 

 lowing resolutions were passed : 



" Whereas, the perpetuation of the na- 

 val stores industry is of vital importance 

 to the South, and 



"Whereas, the present methods of 

 gathering turpentine are destructive to the 

 forest and threaten the extinction of the in- 

 dustry itself, therefore, be it 



'''Resolved, That the Board of Direc- 

 tors of the American Forestry Association 

 express their hearty approval of the in- 

 vestigation now in progress by Dr. C. H. 

 Herty as a collaborator of the Bureau of 

 Forestry, to devise conservative methods 

 of turpentine cropping and to ascertain 

 their practicability." 



Forest Reserve In a paper read at the re- 

 Wanted in semi-annual meeting of 

 Maine. the Maine State Board of 

 Trade, Mr. Francis Wig- 

 gin, of Portland, strongly advocates estab- 

 lishing forest reservations in that State. 

 Mr. Wiggin's paper on "The Preserva- 

 tion of Maine Forests," points out the 

 great damage likely to result to some of 

 the State's leading industries unless some- 

 thing is done to check the present reckless 

 destruction of the forests. The views ex- 

 pressed in his paper are shared by many of 

 the leading- business men of the State and 

 it is hoped that they many arouse public 

 sentiment to that point which will lead to 

 early and intelligent action on the part of 

 the legislature. There is no State in the 

 Union where the public welfare depends 

 to a greater extent on the forests than in 

 Maine. 



A portion of Mr. Wiggin's paper is re- 

 printed here : 



" The preservation of our forests means 

 permanent employment for thousands of 



wage earners. It means comfortable 

 homes for the wives and children of t!. 

 laborers. It means the preservation 

 our magnificent water powei , 1 I her 

 great industries, as the cotton and woo 

 industries and all other industries thai 

 pend on water for their power, are in- 

 terested in this great question. This State 

 has many and varied resources. Man 

 them are practically inexhaustible. I 

 is no danger of exhausting our granite: 

 there is no danger of exhausting our 

 lime; there is no danger of exhausting 

 our slate. But our lumber resource is 

 worth a hundred times more than all these 

 combined, and this resource is in great 

 danger of being exhausted. 



"What can the State do, and what can 

 the State Board of Trade do? The dan- 

 ger to our forests does not come so much 

 from the extensive land owners and the 

 large companies as from the small own- 

 ers. The small owners in many cases 

 are heirs of former large owners, and 

 they have no particular interest in their 

 lands except to realize as much money 

 as possible from them at once. The 

 large owners are more conservative and 

 many of them draw their contracts for 

 the sale of stumpage with great care and 

 strictness. 



"The International Paper Company, 

 which owns nine pulp and paper mills in 

 this State, made and is enforcing a rigid 

 rule in cutting lumber on the 300,000 acres 

 or more which it owns in Maine. This 

 rule provides that no tree less than 1 2 

 inches in diameter, breast high, shall be 

 cut. The Great Northern Paper Com- 

 pany, which owns the paper mills at Milli- 

 nocket ami Madison, has a similar rule for 

 its Maine timber tract of <>\er 300,000 

 acres. These two companies and the Mer- 

 lin Mills Company employ skilled for- 

 esters on their lands. 



"Shall the State of Maine look on 

 resignedly while the destruction of the 

 woods upon which the State's life and 

 prosperity depends goes on unrestrained 

 and take no action in the matter: Th< 

 is the same authority under the constitu- 

 tion for the State to examine the 1 

 eminent domain that there is in the 5 

 of Pennsylvania, New York, Nev Hamp- 

 shire, Minnesota, Michigan, or Cali 

 Maine has three important rivers which 

 havi more for the industrial d 



