Vol. XII. 



MAY, 1906. 



No. 5 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Favorable 

 Report 



To the many persons de- 

 siring the establishment 

 of federal forest reserves 

 in the Southern Appalacians and the 

 White Mountains, it will come as most 

 welcome news that the Committee on 

 Agriculture of the House of Represen- 

 tatives has decided to make a favor- 

 able report on the bill creating these 

 reserves. The Senate Committee hav- 

 ing in charge a like bill sometime ago 

 made a favorable report. While no 

 further action may be expected at the 

 present session of Congress, the mat- 

 ter is now in excellent shape for forc- 

 ing it at the opening of the new session 

 next fall. 



Hearing on 

 Revised Bill 



In this connection we 

 wish to call attention to 

 the notable hearing on 

 this bill, April 25 and 26, before the 

 Committee on Agriculture of the 

 House of Representatives. 



The American Forestry Association, 

 together with several of the State or- 

 ganizations, has been earnestly work- 

 ing to secure the passage by Congress 

 of this measure, or similar ones, for a 

 number of years. When the date of 

 the hearing on the latest measure was 

 announced by the House Committer, 

 it was decided to make a strong plea 

 before that Com mi it ee for the re- 



serves, substantiated by convincing 

 evidence of the pressing need for ac- 

 tion. At a forestry meeting held at 

 Charlotte, N. C, early in March, Gov- 

 ernor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina, 

 was asked, in a resolution, to request 

 the Governors of all States interested 

 in the reserves, to appoint a committee 

 of five citizens to represent their re- 

 spective States at the hearing, and pre- 

 sent individual evidence of the need of 

 the reserves, and voice the general de- 

 sire of the people. Accordingly, at the 

 hearing on April 25 and 26, there were 

 present some seventy-five persons, rep- 

 resenting, in all, fourteen States, and 

 including the Governor of North Car- 

 olina, and the Governor of New 

 Hampshire the latter accompanied 

 by his entire council. Governor Glenn, 

 as chairman of the assembled commit- 

 tees, was in charge of the presentation 

 of evidence to the House Committee. 



The first day's session was opened 

 with a forceful address by Governor 

 McLane of New Hampshire, on the 

 subject: "The States within which 

 these proposed forest reserves are to 

 be located cannot be reasonably ex- 

 pected to establish and maintain forest 

 reserves which are for the benefit of 

 the entire eastern half of the United 

 States, and the nation as a whole." 



