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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



Decern be 



ure. From now until March 4, next, 

 each member should feel it his impera- 

 tive, personal duty to exert his utmost 

 effort to insure its passage. 



On January 8 and 9, next, occurs the 

 annual meeting of the Association ; a 

 broadly educational program is in pre- 

 paration ; it bears especially upon the 

 policy of national forests, and the 

 prime object of the meeting will 

 be to push the Appalachian-White 

 Mountain bill. Every member should, 

 if possible, attend ; he should come 

 prepared to remain, if necessary, till 

 the following week, and to work as he 

 never worked before to write this bill 

 upon the Federal statutes. 



That the Association may rise to 



the situation before it, each member is 

 urged to 



1. Continue his membership by 

 promptly forwarding his dues to the 

 Treasurer ; 



2. Advance his membership, if an- 

 nual, to the rank of sustaining or life ; 



3. Enlist at least one new member 

 for the Association. 



4. Write his Congressman to push 

 the Appalachian-White Mountain bill, 

 and 



5. Come to the annual meeting re- 

 solved that this bill shall pass. 



THOS. E. WILL, 



Secretarv.. 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Michigan 

 Forests 



"Michigan should derive 

 an income of about $30,- 

 000,000 annually from 

 the 6,000,000 acres of unproductive 

 lands within her borders which at pres- 

 ent are going to ruin through denuda- 

 tion of her forests. This amount 

 would be more than sufficient to pay 

 all the expenses of the State, and 

 would take a tremendous tax burden 

 from her citizens," said Carl E. 

 Schmidt in addressing the Detroit 

 branch of the Association of Collegiate 

 Alumnae at their last monthly meeting. 



Mr. Schmidt, Prof. Filbert Roth, 

 Professor of Forestry at Ann Arbor, 

 and State Forestry Warden, and Miss 

 M. Baldwin, of Birmingham, chairman 

 of the forestry committee of the State 

 Federation of Women's Clubs, ad- 

 dressed the alumnae on the subject of 

 forestry. 



Miss Baldwin stated that as a result 

 of the work of the committee, 184 

 women's clubs in Michigan have re- 

 ceived literature bearing on the fores- 

 try question, and each has given from 

 two to three meetings to its considera- 

 tion. 



Miss Baldwin said: "We women 



must see to it that no member of the 

 legislature goes to Lansing this year 

 without a knowledge that the women 

 of the State want a reform in our land 

 laws. Our committee has endeavored 

 to reach every candidate before elec- 

 tion and we have tried to pledge them 

 to forestry reform. The candidates 

 from Wayne county have not been in- 

 terviewed, and I urge you to see them 

 after election and get pledges from 

 them in this matter. See your town- 

 ship road commissioners also, and get 

 them to plant trees, as the law pro- 

 vides, along the public roads." The 

 alumnae agreed to work to this end. 



d c d .u. Prof. Filibert Roth, after 

 Prof. Roth s . iT , i( ' 



Opinions saying that the women 



of Michigan have created 

 the sentiment that lies back of the for- 

 estry movement, said : "President 

 Roosevelt has stated that forestry re- 

 form is the most important general 

 problem in the United States at the 

 present time. Michigan has 2,000,000 

 persons dependent on the forests for 

 their living. She will have 5,000,000- 

 before the century ends. She uses an- 

 nually one thousand millions of feet 



