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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 





"Ample precaution would be taken to 

 prevent the admittance of students who 

 did not intend to make forestry their life 

 profession, and there would further be no 

 period during the six years of school life 

 when the student would not be required, 

 or at least liable, to do manual work in 

 the State forests for at least half his time. 

 In this way there would be constantly in 

 the employ of the State and under the di- 

 rection of the Forest Commissioner a 

 trained body of young men, educated and 

 experienced and able to take charge of the 

 forest interests of the State." 



Secretary Hon. James Wilson, Sec- 



Wilson on retary of Agriculture, is 



Appalachian strongly in favor of the 

 Reserve. establishment of a forest 



reserve in the southern 

 Appalachian mountains, as the following 

 from his annual report will show : 



. ''The creation of the proposed 



'" my judgment, urgent, ii 

 protect the head v. 

 streams, to maintain an alread) greatly 

 impaired supply of timber, and 

 a national recreation ground whi< h, with 

 the single exception of the Adiroi 

 will be readily accessible to a larger n 

 her oi people than any ot ,,,,, 



in the United States. ' I believe thai tl 

 considerations render the pure! the 



Federal Government of the proposed 

 serve in the southern Appalachians desir- 

 able in every wav. The poli< \ involved 

 is not new. The proposed purchase will 

 not involve the creation of a precedenl for 

 that has already been done. In [S96 the 

 Government purchased from th< ! ! feet 

 Indians of Montana an area of approxi- 

 mately 615,500 acres for the mum of 

 $[,500,000. and on February 22, 1897, it 

 became part of the Flathead Forest Re 

 serve." 



PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE. 

 Strong Recommendations Regarding Forestry and Irrigation 



PUBLIC opinion throughout the United 

 States has moved steadily toward a 

 just appreciation of the value of for- 

 ests, whether planted or of natural growth. 

 The great part played by them in the cre- 

 ation and maintenance of the national 

 wealth is now more fully realized than 

 ever before. 



Wise forest protection does not mean 

 the withdrawal of forest resources, whether 

 of wood, water, or grass, from contributing 

 their full share to the welfare of the 

 people, but, on the contrary, gives the as- 

 surance of larger and more certain sup- 

 plies. The fundamental idea of forestry 

 is the perpetuation of forests by use. For- 

 est protection is not an end of itself; it is 

 a means to increase and sustain the re- 

 sources of our country and the industries 

 which depend upon them. The preser- 

 vation of our forests is an imperative 

 business necessity. We have come to see 

 clearly that whatever destroys the forest, 

 except to make way for agriculture, threat- 

 ens our well-being. 



National Forest Reserves. 



The practical usefulness ol the national 

 forest reserves to the mining, grazing, irri- 

 gation, and other interests of the regions 

 in which the reserves lie has led to a wide- 

 spread demand by the people of the West 

 for their protection and extension. The 

 forest reserves will inevitably be of still 

 greater use in the future than in tin.' past. 

 Additions should be made to them when- 

 ever practicable, and their usefulness 

 should be increased by a thoroughly busi- 

 ness-like management. 



At present the protection of the foi 

 reserves rests with the Genera] Land 1 

 lice, the mapping and description of tl 

 timber with the United Stat ical 



Survey, and the preparation 

 their conservative use with the Bureau of 

 Forestry, which is also charged with the 

 general advancement of practical forestr) 



in the- I 'nited States. 11,.-, \ ill ioilS fui 



tions should be united in the Bureau <! 

 Forestry, to w hich they property b 



