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has met with success. The legislature 

 of that state in March appropriated 

 $260,000 for their purchase. By this 

 act the State of California not only did 

 a great service to the cause of forestry 

 in the United States, but also gave its 

 citizens a superb park. 



The Minnesota legislature at its ses- 

 sion la.st spring enacted a law that .sets 

 aside as a part of the state forest reserves 

 all lands unfit for agricultural purposes 

 that reverted to the state through delin- 

 quent taxes prior to i8gi. 



Meeting's of The summer meeting of 

 the Year* the American Forestry 



As.sociation was held at 

 Denver, Colorado, Augu.st 27-29, in 

 affiliation with the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. 

 The meeting was a distinctively west- 

 ern one, and was well attended. Inter- 

 esting papers were read on a v&riet}- of 

 topics, the questions of fires, grazing, re- 

 lations of forests to water supph', and the 

 forest reserves receiving especial atten- 

 tion. The papers read at Denver have 

 been appearing in the Forester. The 

 newspapers of Denver devoted much 

 space to the meeting, and accounts of the 

 various sessions were sent out to the 

 papers over the country'. The Baltimore 

 A))icn'caii, in referring to the Denver 

 meeting, had the following to say of the 

 Association: " It is doing a good work, 

 and a work which sooner or later mu.st 

 be undertaken by the entire people." 

 The Providence (R. I.) Telegram re- 

 cently said, editorially: "The Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association has done and is 

 doing an incalculable amount of good." 



New Forest The list of national and 

 Associations. state forest associations 

 was augmented by three 

 new organizations during the year. At 

 Connersville, Indiana, in June, the In- 

 ternational vSociety of Arboriculture was 

 organized with over three hundred mem- 

 bers, representing thirty states and sev- 

 eral foreign countries. 



The Tennes.see Forest Association 

 began its career at Sewanee, Tennes.see, 

 early in August, and the first annual 

 meeting of the organization was held in 

 Nashville in November, Much interest 



in forestry throughout the state has 

 been aroused through the efforts of this 

 a.ssociation, and there is significance in 

 the fact that among the most enthusi- 

 astic members of the organization are a 

 number of the leading lumbermen of 

 the state. 



The Society for the Protection of New 

 Hamp.shire Forests was organized early 

 in the year, and much work has already 

 been done by its members. During the 

 past summer a series of lectures on for- 

 estry, under the auspices of the society, 

 were given at various towns in the .state. 

 The society now intends to follow up 

 its preliminary work by engaging a 

 trained forester, who will deliver lec- 

 tures throughout the .state and also be 

 at the service of farmers and lumber- 

 men, to give them advice in the hand- 

 ling of their timber land, free of charge. 



It is interesting to note in this con- 

 nection that there are now twenty-two 

 national and state forest a.ssociations in 

 the United States. 



The Forester. During the past year 

 40,200 copies of the 

 Forester were printed. Of this num- 

 ber 26.000 went to our members, sub- 

 scribers, and exchanges, while about 

 14,000 sample copies were sent out, 

 along with invitations to join the As- 

 sociation, to .selected lists of names. 

 In January Mr. H. M. Suter was ap- 

 pointed business manager, and on April 

 15th Mr. Henry James, 2d, under who.se 

 control the magazine had been for a 

 year and under whose direction it was 

 greatly improved, resigned. Mr. Suter 

 was then selected to fill the vacancy. 

 During the year just ended the adver- 

 tising receipts of the Forester were 

 doubled. 



At a meeting of the Board of Directors 

 held on October 8th the feasibility of 

 enlarging and im.{)roving the Fore.ster 

 was discu.ssed. It was felt that both 

 the Association and the cause of forestry 

 needed a better magazine. The propo- 

 sition was then made that negotiations 

 be entered into having in view the union 

 of publication of the Forester with the 

 journal known as iVatioiial Irrigation, 

 since both publications were devoted to 

 the propagation of ideas related to the 



