Forestry and Irrigation. 





VOL. IX. 



APRIL, 1903. 



No. 4. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



A Noteworthy If any one doubts the 

 Tendency. force of the movement 



for a better policy in 

 regard to the handling of our forests, 

 the contents of this number of FOR- 

 ESTRY AND IRRIGATION should go a 

 long way toward dispelling such doubts. 

 President Roosevelt, long known as an 

 advocate of forestry, who has given 

 both forestry and irrigation prominent 

 mention in several of his messages to 

 Congress, showed plainer than ever his 

 deep interest when on the evening of 

 March 26 he addressed a meeting of 

 the Society of American Foresters at 

 Washington, D. C. 



A reading of his address as printed 

 elsewhere in this number will not only 

 show the President's deep interest in 

 forestry, but it will put the whole sub- 

 ject in a new and convincing light to 

 many people. It contains a strong plat- 

 form, not only for foresters, but the 

 people of the country generally. It 

 points to the importance of the profes- 

 sion of forestry, and warns the public 

 of the need for intelligent use of our 

 remaining forest resources. 



In addition, this number contains an 

 excellent address on ' ' The Forester and 

 the Lumberman," by Mr. Gifford Pin- 

 chot, Forester, U. S. Department of Ag- 

 riculture, delivered at the banquet of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association, recently held in Wash- 

 ington. The theme of this address is 

 the close relations that must exist be- 

 tween the lumberman and the forester 

 if forestry is to reach its greatest use 

 and the lumber industry is to be per- 

 petuated. The interest this address 

 aroused among the lumbermen shows 

 the tendency of those men to give the 

 question of forestry a fair trial. 



Still another significant sign of the 

 tendency of lumbermen to adopt for- 

 estry shown at the same meeting of lum- 

 ber dealers was the excellent report of 

 the Association's Committee on For- 

 estry, which contains so much of value 

 that it is reprinted in full elsewhere in 

 this number. 



Forestry is a good business proposi- 

 tion, as President Roosevelt and Mr. 

 Pinchot so aptly stated in their ad- 

 dresses. What is more to the point, 

 those men whose business is bound up 

 in the forests, the lumbermen, are com- 

 ing to see this. With general adoption 

 of the principles of forestry by the lum- 

 bermen, the forest problems of the coun- 

 try will be near solution. 



A. F. A. At a recent meeting of the 

 Directors Board of Directors of the 

 Meet. American Forestry Asso- 



ciation, held in Washing- 

 ton, a number of matters of interest to 

 the Association at large were discussed. 

 An active program for the remainder of 

 the year is being thoroughly outlined, 

 and a vigorous campaign will now be 

 made both for increasing the member- 

 ship of the Association and to further 

 the purposes for which it stands. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, who has for sev- 

 eral years past been corresponding sec- 

 retary, requested that his resignation 

 be accepted, owing to press of work in 

 connection with the Reclamation Service 

 of the Government, of which he is the 

 chief engineer. The Board selected Mr. 

 E. A. Bowers to fill the vacancy. Mr. 

 Bowers has been a member of the Board 

 of Directors for several years, and has 

 long been deeply interested in forestry, 

 and especially in the \vork of the Amer- 





