EDITORIAL 



The National Conservation Association of it grow. To make this magazine 



the representative and authorative popu- 



THE American Forestry Associa- lar pres entation of American Forestry, 

 tion will extend a cordial welcome with aR that the tefm implies in main _ 

 to the National Conservation Associa- ^ ^ { forces of conserva- 

 tion, the organization of which has just don; throut?h it and throug h all the 

 been announced. For over twenty educational means at our command to 

 years, through many of which forestry mform thg peop]e Qn forestry and the 

 was misunderstood and unpopular, and aUied sub j ects of soils and waters . to 

 "conservation" remained hidden in the secure thg mogt effective legislation in 

 dictionary, awaiting its Rooseveli the Nation and each of itg common . 

 America awaited Columbus, this asso- wealths _ this is our program, and it is 

 nation has worked for better conserva- big enough an(1 de fi n ite enough to enlist 

 tion legislation, and for wider and t he support of all good Americans. We 

 sounder knowledge of forestry, with all recognize no rivalry except that of who 

 that it means to the peoples welfare. shall accomplish most for the public 

 To it the advocacy of the vital issues we if are 

 raised by the conservation movement % % % 

 seemed in a measure to fall, because 

 it was the strongest and most completely 



organized popular association in the T T O\Y to prevent waste is one of 

 field, and because forestry is the key- Fl the great forestry topics, along 

 stone of the conservation arch and soils with taxation, forest fires, reforestation, 

 and waters look to the forest as parent, and the other familiar headings of the 

 conserver, and restorer. This must in- forest creed. On this subject Capt. 

 evitably influence our work in the fu- J. B. White, of Missouri, made an ad- 

 ture. We cannot, if we would, divorce mirable address at the recent southern 

 the forestry cause from the whole great conservation meeting in New Orleans, 

 conservation work, but there is much to Incidentally he paid his respects to the 

 do and our work is so large, so impor- popular idea of a lumber trust, main- 

 tant, and so well defined that we rejoice taining that it did not exist, and that 

 in the appearance of a strong combi- high prices for lumber were not due to. 

 nation, in which we hope to find a artificial forcing, but were the natural 

 powerful ally, which assumes the obli- result of a supply inadequate to meet 

 gation to push the conservation work the demand. We believe he was right. 

 along other lines. He discussed the proposal that the 

 An impression has been fostered by states should regulate the cutting of 

 some newspaper outgivings that there lumber by restricting it to a certain 

 is some rivalry or hostility between the size, finding this impracticable. a< have 

 two associations. For our part we all professional foresters who have con- 

 know of none, nor reason for any. Our sidered it, so far as we know. Often, 

 own work remains clear before us. and he said, the smaller tree would be of 

 becomes larger year by year as the need more value than the larger for specific 

 of forestry and the public appreciation purposes. Size regulation is imprac- 



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