1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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was then called upon. He dwelt par- 

 ticularly on the importance of the ef- 

 fort which the Forest Service is now 

 making in connection with the associ- 

 ation which he represents to collect all 

 available statistics relating to timber 

 supply and consumption. Senator J. 

 H. Stout, of Wisconsin, then made a 

 brief address to the meeting, express- 

 ing his interest and appreciation of 

 forestry. The meeting then adjourned. 

 The program for the afternoon ses- 

 sion, which convened at 2 130 on the 

 same day, included discussion of the 

 forest and water problems of the 

 United States. Authoritative address- 

 es were given by Mr. Arthur P. Davis, 

 assistant chief of the United States 

 Reclamation Service; Mr. Morris Bien, 

 consulting engineer of the United 

 States Reclamation Service, and Mr. 

 C. J. Blanchard, statistician, United 

 States Reclamation Service. Mr. C. D. 

 Haskins, a well-known engineer of the 

 General Electric Company, was pre- 

 vented by sickness from being present 

 at the meeting, but his paper was read 

 by request of the presiding officer, Mr. 

 Pinchot, by Mr. James H. Cutler. The 

 paper was an interesting non-technical 

 discussion of the vital importance of 

 protecting the water powers of the 

 South by protecting the forests of that 

 region. Mr. Henry A. Pressey, for- 

 merly connected with the United 

 States Geological Survey, and an au- 

 thority on the conditions in the South- 

 ern Appalachian Mountains, next pre- 

 sented a paper, with an interesting ex- 

 position of the resources of that region 

 and its vast stored potential power. 



This finished the set program for the 

 afternoon, and the remainder of the 

 session was devoted to impromptu ad- 

 dresses. Mr. G. O. Shields, president 

 of the League of American Sports- 

 men, spoke on the relation that pro- 

 tection of the forests has on the pro- 

 tection of game ; Mr. R. C. Lippincott 

 was heard again in an interesting ad- 

 dress, and Prof. Henry S. Graves, di- 

 rector of the Yale Forest School, spoke 

 briefly. 



In the evening, a reception was ten- 

 dered in honor of the members and of- 

 ficers of the Association by Mr. and 

 Mrs. James W. Pinchot and Mr. Gil- 

 ford Pinchot, at their home at 161 5 

 Rhode Island avenue. 



Wednesday morning, the Associa- 

 tion convened at 10 :30, with Mr. Wm. 

 S. Harvey presiding. Ex-Gov. F. W. 

 Rollins, of New Hampshire, was un- 

 able to be present at the meeting, and 

 his paper was read by Mr. Philip W. 

 Ayres. The secretary then read a let- 

 ter from Senator J. H. Gallinger, of 

 New Hampshire, who was unfortu- 

 nately prevented from being present. 

 Senator Gallinger expressed his inter- 

 est in the work the Association is ad- 

 vancing in regard to the creation of 

 national forest reserves in the White 

 Mountains and the Southern Appa- 

 lachian Mountains, and pledged his 

 support to the movement. The secre- 

 tary also read a paper prepared by 

 Prof. Samuel B. Green, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, on education in for- 

 estry. Capt. J. P. Walker, U. S. A. 

 (retired), then spoke briefly on the re- 

 lation between destruction of the for- 

 ests and the injury to the rivers and 

 harbors of the United States. The 

 chair then called on Judge Warren 

 Higley, of New York. It was in 

 Judge Higley's law office in Cincin- 

 nati that the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation had its first inception, some 

 thirty years ago, through the enthusi- 

 astic work of a few public-spirited 

 citizens. Judge Higley's talk was 

 largely reminiscent, and he dwelt at 

 length on the change in sentiment to- 

 ward forestry which has come about 

 since the organization of the Associa- 

 tion. 



Mr. George H. Moses, secretary of 

 the New Hampshire Forestry Com- 

 mission, then spoke briefly on New 

 Hampshire forest conditions. In the 

 absence of Dr. George T. Winston, 

 president of the Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College of North Carolina, his 

 address was read by Mr. James H. 

 Cutler. The paper was in the form of 

 a summary of reasons for the estab- 



