Vol. XII. 



JUNE, 1906. 



No. 6 



NEWS AND NOTES 



On Tune 22, Senator 

 Senate Passes -r> j j u 



Reserve Bill Brandegee presented be- 

 fore the Senate the bill 

 (S. 4953) for the purpose of acquir- 

 ing lands for forest reserve purposes 

 in the Southern Appalachian and the 

 White Mountains of New Hampshire. 

 The bill was passed without opposi- 

 tion. It authorizes the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to procure lands for forest 

 reserves in Maryland, Virginia, North 

 Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. 

 Alabama and Tennessee in the Appa- 

 lachian Mountains and in New Hamp- 

 shire in the White Mountains. He is 

 also authorized to accept donations of 

 lands for forest reserves. The bill 

 carries an appropriation of $3,000,- 

 000. 



This action marks a further big step 

 in the work being carried on to pre- 

 serve our Eastern forests. All energy 

 should now be directed toward the 



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House of Representatives at the next 

 session of the present Congress. Never 

 has there been a better outlook for the 

 passage of this bill. 



For the past year the 

 American Forestry As- 

 sociation has been en- 

 gaged in an active campaign to in- 



Membership 

 Campaign 



crease its membership and influence. 

 The success which has attended these 

 efforts has been gratifying. A very 

 substantial number of the persons in- 

 vited to become members accepted, 

 when the objects of the association 

 were laid before them. 



The association realizes that there 

 never has been a time in the history 

 of the forest movement in the United 

 States when well-directed effort was 

 so certain to achieve good results for 

 forest protection as at present. Largely 

 through it public opinion has been 

 brought to bear on the agitation for 

 the creation of the Southern Appa- 

 lachian and White Mountain forest 

 reserves, and it seems probable that 

 Congress will take favorable action 

 on the bill now before it. The suc- 

 cess the organization has achieved in 

 its varied efforts so far only empha- 

 sizes the desirability of extending its 

 scope of operations and its influence 

 throughout the country. This can only 

 come through an increasing support 

 in .membership. The association de- 

 sires and needs as members represen- 

 tative men and women in every city 

 and town in the country. A very large 

 proportion of persons in sympathy 

 with the forest movement, or feeling 



