MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



Held at Washington, D. C, January 1 6 and 1 7. 

 Much Important Business Transacted. 



YY7HILE not approaching in mag- 

 " nitude the Forest Congress of 

 last January, the meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association held at 

 Washington on January 16 and iy was 

 a notable one in every respect. The 

 attendance was large for a business 

 meeting and of the most active mem- 

 bers of the Association those who 

 plan and carry forward the forest 

 work this Association stands for. That 

 there is a rapidly increasing interest in 

 forestry was amply demonstrated by 

 the large number of public men who 

 either appeared at the meeting or for- 

 warded messages expressing their ap- 

 preciation and support of forestry. 



The opening meeting, on Tuesday, 

 January 16, was called to order by 

 President Wilson at 10:30, in the sit- 

 ting room of the New Willard Hotel. 

 Secretary Wilson's address, as presi- 

 dent of the American Forestry Associ- 

 ation, was an especially happy one. 

 He traced the growth and broadening 

 of the forest movement from its be- 

 ginning and was emphatic in his pre- 

 diction of the early recognition by all 

 citizens of the importance of the forest 

 movement, and its extension and adop- 

 tion in all sections. Following the 

 president's address, Mr. H. M. Suter, 

 secretary of the Association, read the 

 annual report of the Board of Direc- 

 tors (printed in full elsewhere in this 

 number). This report, together with 

 that of the treasurer, following shortly 

 after, showed that the Association is 

 in excellent condition financially ; and, 

 in accepting the two reports, several 

 members took occasion to express their 

 gratification not only of the thriving 

 condition of the organization, but of 

 the amount of work carried forward 

 during the fiscal year of 1905. 



The chair then appointed the fol- 

 lowing committees : 



Committee on Resolutions Mr. 

 Pinchot (chairman), Mr. Harvey, and 

 Mr. Ayres. 



Committee on Audit Captain J. B. 

 Adams (chairman), and Mr. George 

 P. Whittlesey. 



Committee on Revision of By-laws 

 Mr. Hall (chairman), Mr. Cutler, 

 Mr. Start, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Her- 

 bert Smith. 



Committee on Nominations Mr. 

 Hall (chairman) and Colonel Fox. 



Committee on Affiliation Mr. Cut- 

 ler (chairman), Mr. Gaskill, Mr. Start, 

 Mr. Lippincott, and Mr. A. G. Forbes. 



Committee on Forest Reserve Bill 

 Mr. Woodruff (chairman), Mr. Cut- 

 ler, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Ayres, and Mr. 

 Elliott. 



Dr. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain 

 of the Senate, was then called upon for 

 a short address, and responded in ex- 

 cellent spirit, particularly urging upon 

 all public-spirited citizens considera- 

 tion of the proposed White Mountain 

 and Appalachian Forest Reserves, and 

 earnestly advocating their creation by 

 the passage of the various measures 

 now before Congress. 



Mr. Bainbridge, chairman of the 

 committee of the New York Manufac- 

 turers' Association for the revision of 

 the second-class postal laws, was in- 

 troduced to the meeting by Mr. W. S. 

 Harvey, whom Secretary Wilson called 

 to the chair when forced to attend a 

 Cabinet meeting. Mr. Bainbridge ex- 

 plained the abuse of the second-class 

 rate by publishers, and expressed the 

 conviction that a curtailing of this 

 privilege would save a vast amount of 

 pulp paper, and thus in a measure 

 lessen the demand for pulpwood. 



