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Vol. XV 



FEBRUARY, 1909 



No. 2 



TWENTY/EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



" Anti'Forest Fire Congress" of the American Forestry Association 



Held in Washington, D, C, New Officers Elected- 



President Wilson Retires Reports of 



Directors, Treasurer, etc, Plans 



for Effective Work 



THE twenty-eighth annual meeting 

 of The American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation was held in Washington, 

 D. C., on January 13 and 14, in the red 

 room at the New Willard Hotel. While, 

 in point of attendance, the 1909 meet- 

 ing may not have equaled former meet- 

 ings, the interest was intense, and the 

 meeting developed into one of the best 

 ever held in the history of the Associa- 

 tion, if judged from the viewpoint of 

 work planned and increased scope and 

 effectiveness of organization. 



The meeting was marked by the re- 

 tirement of the Hon. James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture, who for ten 

 years past has been the President of 

 The American Forestry Association. 

 The newly elected President is the 

 Hon. Curtis Guild, Jr., former Gov- 

 ernor of Massachusetts. A complete 

 list of new officers, directors, etc., will 

 be found in the usual place in this 

 magazine. 



The 1909 meeting was styled an 

 "Anti-Forest Fire Congress," and sev- 

 eral able and intensely interesting 

 papers were read on the subject of 

 forest fires and their control. Consid- 

 erable discussion along this line devel- 

 oped in the meeting, and the address of 

 Frank H. Lamb, member of the State 

 Board of Forestry of Washington, to- 

 gether with the conclusions of the com- 

 mittee on forest fires and their control, 

 will probably be pronounced the ablest 

 contributions to present-day thought 

 along these lines that have been offered 

 before any organization, either State, 

 National or private. 



The opening session was called to 

 order at 10:30 a m., January 13, with 

 Col. William S. Harvey in the chair. 

 Welcoming in a few words the mem- 

 bers present, Chairman Harvey an- 

 nounced the retirement of President 

 Wilson, and paid a high tribute to the 

 efficiency of the man who has done 



