FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



January, 



ist and the irrigation engineer is needed 

 to draw this water from the depths and 

 turn it over the surface of the land, to 

 transform the parched and barren plains 

 into green orchards and blossoming 

 gardens." 



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Minnesota 

 Meetingf. 



The Minnesota State For- 

 estry Association held a 

 meeting in Minneapolis 

 during the iirst week in December. A 

 number of important matters were dis- 

 cussed by the members present, and the 

 following list of papers was read : ' ' For- 

 estry in Minnesota, ' ' Charles M. Loring, 

 "The Esthetic Side of Forestry," Al- 

 fred Terry; "Minnesota's Interest in 

 Forestry," Gen. C. C. Andrews ; "Spe- 

 cial Course in Forestry in the State Uni- 

 versity," Prof. Samuel B. Green; "Pres- 

 ent Status of the Park Question," Mrs. 

 William T. Bramhall, and "Minnesota's 

 Greatest Opportunity in Forestry," H. 

 H. Chapman. 



Professor Green advocated the estab- 

 lishment of a vSchool of Forestry in con- 

 nection with the State University. A 

 resolution was adopted by the associa- 

 tion pledging the members present to 

 use their best efforts with their Congress- 

 men to secure the enactment of a law 

 pro^'iding for a national forest reserve 

 in Minnesota. Mr. Charles M. I^oring 

 was reelected president of the associa- 

 tion and Mr. W. Strand secretary. 



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National 

 Live Stock 

 Association. 



More than one thousand 

 delegates, representing 

 thirty-eight states and 

 territories, attended the 

 fifth annual meeting of the National 

 Live Stock Association, which was held 

 in Chicago during December. A great 

 amount of important business was trans- 

 acted, and among the subjects that came 

 up for discu.ssion was the relation of for- 

 estry and irrigation to the live-stock 

 interests. 



Among the speakers at the meeting 

 were Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of 

 Agriculture, who addressed the conven- 

 tion on the ' ' Value of Mixed Live Stock 

 Husbandry to the Farmer ; " Mr. Gif- 

 ford Pinchot, who spoke on the " Graz- 

 ing of Live Stock in the Forest Re- 



serves," and Mr. George H. Maxwell, 

 who addressed the association on the 

 subject of "Increasing the Range Ca- 

 pacity by Irrigation. ' ' 



Resolutions were unanimously adopt- 

 ed by the delegates endorsing President 

 Roosevelt's suggestion that the admin- 

 istration of the national forest reserves 

 be transferred to the Department of 

 Agriculture. Congress is also urged 

 in these resolutions to repeal or amend 

 the Lieu Land laws, in order that they 

 cannot be used to defraud the govern- 

 ment. 



California. The third annual con- 



vention of the California 

 Water and Forest Association w^as held 

 at San Francisco on December 2 1 , and 

 was attended by a large number of the 

 representative men of the state. For- 

 estry and irrigation, both state and na- 

 tional, were discussed, and the views of 

 President Roosevelt on the forest and 

 water problems, as expressed in his mes- 

 sage, were heartily endorsed. A vig- 

 orous campaign for the coming year was 

 outlined by the delegates present. 



The treasurer's report showed that 

 since the organization of the Association 

 receipts from members were $23,639.80, 

 and that the disbursements had been 

 $22,733.84, of which $9,074.86 were in 

 cooperation for surveys in connection 

 with the federal government. 



The election of officers resulted as fol- 

 lows : President, Wm. Thomas ; vice- 

 presidents, N. P. Chipman, Arthur R. 

 Briggs, and J. B. Lippincott; treasurer, 

 F. W. Dohrman; secretary, T. C. Fried- 

 lander; advisory committee, David Stair 

 Jordan, C. D. Marx,W. S. Green, W. E. 

 Smythe, C. E. Thomas, Frank Soule, 

 A. J. Pillsbury, Scipio Craig, J. M. 

 Wilson, Thos. J. Field, Timothy Hop- 

 kins, and E. F. Adams. 



The president appointed the following 

 executive committee : Chief Justice Wil- 

 liam H. Beatty, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 

 Frank J. Symmes, W. H. Mills, Jno. D. 

 Works, and Wm. F. Willis. 



The resolutions adopted at this meet- 

 ing of the Water and Forest Association 

 favor the reservation of all government 

 forest lands within the state; a reform- 

 ing of the water laws of California, and 



