Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. X. 



MAY, 1904. 



No. 5. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Notice to All subscribers to FOR- 



Subscribers. ESTRY AND IRRIGATION 

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The The year book of the 



Association American Forestry As- 

 Year Book. sociation for 1904 was 

 sent out to all members 

 several weeks ago. Any one who has 

 failed to receive a copy should at once 

 notify the Secretary, Mr. Edward A. 

 Bowers, P. O. Box 346, New Haven, 

 Conn. We beg to call special attention 

 to the cards which were enclosed in each 

 book and to urge members of the Asso- 

 ciation to obtain the signature of a new 

 member on the same, and send to the 

 Secretary. Each member should be able 

 to secure at least one new member, and 

 this plan, if carried out, would strengthen 

 the Association tremendously. Kindly 

 lend a hand to forward the movement. 



Members will greatly facilitate the 

 work of the officers of the Association 

 and prevent confusion if they will 

 promptly report any errors in their 



names or addresses as shown in the year 

 book. The Association has been put to 

 considerable expense and trouble in get- 

 ting out this book and in trying to keep 

 an accurate list of its members. The 

 cooperation of all is therefore earnestly 

 requested. 



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In Congress. What Congress did for 

 the forest interests of 

 the country at the session just ended 

 can be summarized in two words it 

 dodged. In addition to the usual lot 

 of relatively unimportant bills affecting 

 the forests of the United States, there 

 were three before Congress that were 

 of the first importance and in which the 

 American Forestry Association, as an 

 organization, was deeply interested. 

 These were : The transfer of the admin- 

 istration of the federal forest reserves 

 to the Department of Agriculture, in 

 order to combine all government forest 

 work in the Bureau of Forestry, where 

 it properly belongs ; the repeal of the 

 Timber and Stone act, which has been 

 agitated for years, and, finally, a bill 

 calling for an appropriation of $50,000 

 for the building of roads and trails in 

 the federal forest reserves. 



The first two of these measures are 

 familiar to all readers of this magazine, 

 as they have been backed by the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association for several 

 years. The third was taken up this 

 winter by Mr. Bowers, Secretary of the 

 Association, in compliance with a reso- 

 lution passed by the Association at its 

 last annual meeting. This resolution 

 called for an appropriation of $500,000 

 by Congress to be expended in the mak- 

 ing of roads and trails in the federal 

 forest reserves. Such a move, it was 

 felt, would result in immense improve- 



