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CONSERVATION 



course my eyes were naturally raised, 

 and I could see no signs of any forest. 

 I dropped my eyes, and kept on drop- 

 ping them farther and farther, and after 

 while I discovered a thousand or so 

 little trees that I really think were no 

 bigger than very small bushes, which 

 were being nursed and cared for under 

 the tender, brooding care of that for- 

 ester. 'This is my nursery!' He said 

 it with the same air with which a wom- 

 an would say 'These are my jewels.' 

 When I looked at those little slips, and 

 learned that there were 5,000 trees 

 in that enclosure, being cared for 

 and grown to protect the great Adiron- 

 dack forests, it gave me a great respect 

 for the courage that could believe in it. 

 Representing, as our organi- 

 zation does, over 70,000 members, lo- 

 cated in practically every town in every 

 State of the Union, when we become 

 inspired with the idea of preservation, 

 or creation, or building, or marking, or 

 whatever it may be, we, in our great 

 numbers and our power, of controlling 

 sentiment, bring about results. When 

 the Daughters of the American Revo- 

 lution take in hand the cultivation of 

 the sentiment which you gentlemen are 

 putting into active commission, you 

 will have the best combination of forces 

 to bring about the result that it is 

 possible to achieve. * * * I come 

 to you bearing the greetings of the 

 American women of this country, the 



American women who, perforce, in be- 

 longing to the Daughters of the Ameri- 

 can Revolution, must have the purest 

 strain of American blood that per- 

 meates the veins of the citizens of this 

 country. We do not presume to place 

 ourselves on a pedestal, but we do be- 

 lieve that the descendants of the earli- 

 est, truest lovers of their country must 

 necessarily be those who love it best 

 now. * * I beg of you to allow 



the women to feel that they have had 

 something worthy to do with your un- 

 dertakings, not necessarily because 

 they are auxiliaries or committees or 

 appendages to your work, but because 

 in their hearts is a real love for that 

 country to the aid of which you can 

 come, as did the knights of old, and 

 bring it to its highest triumph of glori- 

 ous victory." 



At the conclusion of Mrs. McLean's 

 address, on motion of the chairman, 

 she was unanimously elected an honor- 

 ary member of the Association, the 

 adoption of the motion being greeted 

 with prolonged applause. 



Following the report of the Com- 

 mittee on By-laws, and the supplemen- 

 tal report of the Auditing Committee, 

 the meeting was addressed by F. W. 

 Rane, State Forester of Massachusetts, 

 his subject being, "Principles in the 

 Acquirement and Management of State 

 Forests." Mr Rane's address follows : 



ADDRESS OF E W, RANE 



THE difficulty which your committee has 

 had is in drawing up a policy which can 

 be applied to different States. There 

 is nothing which is so vitally affected by 

 local conditions as a State forest reserve 

 . policy. One might almost say that a sepa- 

 rate policy should be drawn up for each 

 State. 



The State of Massachusetts is at present, 

 and I presume will be for a long time, not 

 only committed, but confined by strongly 

 developed public sentiment to a policy of 

 State reserves wholly for the purpose of en- 

 couraging private forestry. This is distinct- 

 ly not true of those States which have gone 

 farthest in establishing State forest re- 

 ves, though it does characterize New 

 Kngland as a whole. 

 New York's reserves are dictated by a 



policy of protection of watersheds and en- 

 tirely dominated by a distinctly anti-forestry 

 sentiment favoring the preservation of these 

 reserves as wild parks in their natural state. 

 But the function of the State as a land 

 owner is clearly recognized. 



Pennsylvania is the most advanced of the 

 Eastern States, and her reserves, while 

 founded on the need of watershed protec- 

 tion, are accepted by the public as true 

 forest reserves for the production of timber 

 and its utilization. The principle here rec- 

 ognized is that large areas of waste land 

 can best be reforested by the State. 



Michigan's struggle to establish forest re- 

 serves is being waged along exactly similar 

 lines, only here we have the vital question 

 of choice between agriculture and forestry. 

 The lands are sandy and largely too poor to 



