THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FOREST 



ASSOCIATION 



HA \TXCi just made arrangements 

 with CONSERVATION whereby this 

 magazine becomes the official or- 

 gan of the association, giving us cer- 

 tain news space each month, it is with 

 pleasure and gratification that the an- 

 nouncement is thus somewhat inform- 

 ally made, of the renewal of the Forest 

 Fight by the Appalachian National 

 Forest Association. 



This will be of itself cheering new- 

 to our earnest and loyal membership 

 throughout the South, but. coupled 

 with the recent election of Hon. L). A. 

 Tompkins, of Charlotte. X. C., as our 

 new president; with the removal of 

 our headquarters to Washington, the 

 real seat of war; with the present 

 ability of Mr. Finney to retain his con- 

 nection as secretary and treasurer, it 

 must bring to us some idea of the hard 

 work that lies before us, but bring, at 

 the same time, some vision of the suc- 

 cess and the value of the work that 

 must in time crown our patriotic and 

 unselfish efforts. 



Our association is a purely voluntary 

 one, organized last December in At- 

 lanta, for the purpose of awakening 

 the South to the importance of forest 

 perpetuation, and exerting southern 

 influences toward the support of legis- 

 lation for the Southern Appalachian- 

 White Mountain bills, then pending in 

 Congress. Its work of education and 

 publicity in all the Southern States has 

 been of large importance to the forest 

 cause, and has called forth the approval 

 of press and people in a remarkable 

 way. 



Our organization, hastily made as it 

 was, capable of doing such work as 

 was accomplished by it, cannot be al- 

 lowed to lapse, so we have girded our 

 loins for the new campaign that is nec- 

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essary, and with more time for plan- 

 ning, can, we believe, do better and 

 more effective work for the forests- 

 work that must be done in both the 

 Xation's Congress and in the several 

 states if forest perpetual i>n becomes a 

 reality 



The selection of Mr. Toinpkins 

 means a great deal to us. Xo man i. 

 better or more favorably known in 

 the whole South, lie is not only prom- 

 inently identified with vast and success- 

 ful commercial enterprise-, but he is a 

 promoter of them and of the real in- 

 terests of the South, in the truest and 

 be-t sense of the term. 



lie is a close student of men and 

 affairs, a man of earnest and deep 

 thought on economic questions., a far- 

 sighted patriot who does not know 

 what failure means. 



His letter accepting the presidency 

 and outlining the future work of the 

 a-sociatiou. i- a clarion call to a duty, 

 which, as he puts it, "cannot be evaded" 

 by the patriotic men and women of the 

 South. 



The plan of campaign proposed by 

 the association covers the strengthen- 

 ing of our state organization in each of 

 the Southern States, and the extension 

 of the same into all the Eastern States 

 of the Union. Then we plan to get 

 through a vigorous lecture campaign, 

 a large and active membership of three 

 classes : 



First. From the already organized 

 public and semi-public organizations 

 now in each city, such as chambers of 

 commerce, civic leagues, women's 

 clubs, mercantile associations, and 

 clubs, etc., our hope being that these 

 can be induced to become members of 

 our association in a body, thus helping 

 to support our public work ; but more 



