Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. IX. 



JULY, 1903. 



No. 7. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Summer Meet- 

 ing- of Ameri- 

 can Forestry 

 Association. 



Upon the invitation of 

 the governor of the 

 State of Minnesota and 

 the city of Minneapolis, 

 the American Forestry 

 Association will hold its summer meet- 

 ing at Minneapolis on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, August 25 and 26. The 

 place of meeting will be the Commercial 

 Club of that city. The morning ses- 

 sion on Tuesday will be devoted to busi- 

 ness. Tuesday afternoon and Wednes- 

 day morning and afternoon will be 

 given up to the program of the meeting. 

 On Tuesday evening the Commercial 

 Club will entertain the visitors. On 

 Wednesday evening a mass meeting will 

 be held and short addresses delivered 

 "by a number of men prominent in the 

 forest movement. 



This promises to be one of the most 

 successful meetings ever held by the 

 association. The recent creation of the 

 Minnesota Forest Reserve and the 

 active work to be carried out on it 

 under the direction of the Bureau of 

 Forestry commands not only local but 

 national attention. The Minnesota 

 Reserve is a day's ride from Minneapo- 

 lis, and will well repay a visit, though 

 there will be no official excursion by the 

 association. On this reserve exists the 

 largest solid body of White and Norway 

 Pine east of the Rockies, and it is easily 

 accessible by rail and boat. The 'pro- 

 gram of the meeting will consider the 

 work already undertaken by the Bureau 

 of Forestry on the Minnesota Reserve 

 and the future policy under the bureau. 

 The effect of the reserve upon the state 

 and locality will be discussed in its rela- 

 tion to the lumber industry, to agricul- 

 ture, and to public health and recrea- 

 tion. Other questions of national im- 



portance, such as the general future of 

 the forest reserves, taxes in their rela- 

 tion to private forestry, state forestry 

 movements, and forest fires versus re- 

 production will also be discussed. These 

 and other questions of importance should 

 assure much interest and a good at- 

 tendance. 



College of 

 Forestry to be 

 Discontinued. 



On June 17, at its annual 

 spring meeting, the 

 Board of Trustees of 

 Cornell University de- 

 cided to suspend instruction in the New 

 York State College of Forestry. This 

 action was brought about by Governor 

 Odell's veto of the annual state appro- 

 priation of $10,000 for the maintenance 

 of the College of Forestry, as noted in 

 the June number of FORESTRY AND 

 IRRIGATION. This suspension, the 

 trustees add, will hold until the state 

 sees fit to provide means for again tak- 

 ing up the work. Meanwhile all ap- 

 pointments to the instruction force, 

 including that of the director, are va- 

 cated. 



The act of the governor in vetoing 

 the appropriation came as a direct result 

 of the report of the legislative committee 

 appointed to investigate forest condi- 

 tions in the Adirondacks, and while 

 some of the points of criticism of opera- 

 tions on the college tract embodied in 

 that' re port were well taken, it is regret- 

 table that their consideration should 

 have had the drastic effect of closing 

 the forest school, which was annually 

 preparing a number of trained foresters 

 at a time when the need for them is 

 daily growing more apparent. It is 

 also to be regretted that the trustees 

 could not see their way to continue the 



