1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



25 



Additional Assets. 



By referring to the foregoing Statement of Receipts and Expenditures it 

 will be readily observed that financially the Association is in good health. 

 The remainder of demand loan ($200.00) was paid off during the year and the 

 bonds of the Association are free now of all incumbrance. 



Unpaid dues to the extent of $390.00 are outstanding. East year the 

 amount was $814.00 ; this shows an improvement. 



During the year 136 members were dropped for non-payment of dues, the 

 amount lost being $666.00. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Otto Euebkert, 



Treasurer . 

 Washington, D. C, December 1, 1905. 



FOREST RESERVATION POLICY 

 FOR THE EAST* 



BY 

 FRANK WEST ROLLINS 



Formerly Governor of New Hampshire ; President of the Society for the Protection 



of New Hampshire Forests. 



"""THERE are now forest reservations 

 * in the West amounting to ioo,- 

 000,000 acres. These lie west of the 

 Mississippi River, and all have been 

 set apart from lands owned by the 

 government, except the Minnesota 

 Reservation, at the headwaters of the 

 Mississippi. This reservation was ac- 

 quired partly by purchase, and estab- 

 lishes the precedent on the part of the 

 federal government of acquiring forest 

 lands by purchase for reservation pur- 

 poses. 



The proposition is now before Con- 

 gress to purchase two forest reserva- 



tions in the East, in the Northern and 

 in the Southern Appalachian Moun- 

 tains. It is the purpose of this paper 

 to point out some of the reasons for 

 this extension of the forest policy of 

 the government. 



The main reasons are, of course, 

 economic. From the days of our great 

 great grandfathers we have neglected 

 systematically one of the nation's sta- 

 ple products wood which, next to 

 food and water and fresh air, is essen- 

 tial to our well-being, giving us houses, 

 furniture, tools, fuel, and, more re- 

 cently, paper. The primeval crop of 



*Read at the Annual Meeting of the American Forestry Association, "Washington, D. C, 

 January 16 and 17. 



