Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. XL 



DECEMBER, 1905. 



No. 12 



NEWS AND NOTES 



The 



Januuary 



Meeting 



Educational 

 Use of 

 Reserves 



The attention of the 

 members of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association 

 is called to the announcement else- 

 where in this number of the two-day 

 meeting of the organization to be held 

 in Washington on January 16 and 17. 

 Matters of wide importance will be 

 discussed and it is hoped that there 

 will be a good attendance. All per- 

 sons interested in forestry, whether 

 members of the Association or not, 

 are invited to attend this meeting. The 

 sessions will be held at the New Wil- 

 lard Hotel. 



In his article on the 

 White Mountain Forest 

 Reserve, on another 

 page, Professor Rane touches upon a 

 very important side of this forest re- 

 serve question that is, the educational 

 value of these great national forest re- 

 serves, administered by the trained 

 men of the national forest service. No 

 mere state reserve, no private work, 

 can provide such an object lesson in 

 the larger work and purposes of for- 

 estry. At present this privilege is con- 

 fined to the large and thinly populated 

 states of the great West, but it is need- 

 ed in even greater degree in the more 

 thickly settled East, where the forests 

 are rapidly waning and the question of 

 economical management and preserva- 

 tion has become a vital and immediate 

 one. There are few areas left east of 

 the Mississippi that require or admit 

 this national management on a large 

 scale. Of these few the proposed 

 Southern Appalachian and White 

 Mountain reserves are the chief and 

 now is the time for the nation to secure 

 them. 



Canadian 



Forestry 



Convention 



On January 10, n and 

 12, at Ottawa, will be 

 held a Canadian Fores- 

 try Convention under the auspices of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association. 

 The official call for the convention was 

 issued on August 21, by the Right 

 Honorable Wilfrid Laurier, Premier 

 of the Dominion, and since that time 

 the Canadian Forestry Association has 

 been engaged in arranging for the 

 greatest and most representative meet- 

 ing of its character that has ever been 

 held in the Dominion. Discussion of 

 subjects at the convention will be un- 

 der the following divisions : ( i ) The 

 Nation and the Forest; (2) Forestry 

 in Relation to Agriculture and Irriga- 

 tion ; (3) The Forest and the Lum- 

 ber and Pulp Industries ; (4) The Re- 

 lation of Our Forests to Our Other 

 Industries : Railways, Water-powers, 

 Mining, Building Trades, Wood- 

 working Manufactures ; (5) Scientific 

 Forestry and Forestry Education. 



In organization, the convention is to 

 be modelled on much the same lines as 

 the American Forest Congress (held 

 in Washington last January) was; 

 delegations are to represent all indus- 

 tries allied to forestry and the forests, 

 and all interested organizations and 

 societies are to be represented. Mr. 

 Gifford Pinchot, Forester, U. S. Forest 

 Service, will be present, representing 

 the United States Forest Serviee, and 

 it is probable that a number of the 

 members of the American Forestry 

 Association will also be present. 



Forest Fish The New Kngland For- 

 and Game esti pj^ ;i]1( | ( A iaim . K X - 



hibition, to be held at 

 Mechanic's lluilding. I'oston. Mass.. 



