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r the application of the Weeks law, the purpose of which is the protection 

 d control of the watersheds of navigable streams. 



All of the tracts are contiguous, or nearly so, and will form an area large 

 ough for administration purposes and for the demonstration purpose of 

 actical forestry in this portion of the Southern Appalachians. The forest 

 rvey had made a careful examination and had reported on the character 

 .d value of the land and timber. The geological survey's report said that 

 ieral control of the lands will prevent excessive soil wastage and erosion 

 lich is likely to ensue if such control is not established. The prevention of 

 cessive erosion, it added, will tend to promote and preserve the navigability 

 the Catawba River within the watershed of which the district lies. 



The commission reaffirmed the announcement made early in the summer 

 at it will not pay any speculative prices for land and will not purchase any 

 ad which will not conduce directly to the purposes of the act. 



The commission consists of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the 

 terior, the Secretary of Agriculture, Senators Gallinger, of New Hampshire, 

 aith, of Maryland, and Representatives Lee, of Georgia, and Hawley, of 

 egon. 



SOME FORCEFUL RESOLUTIONS 



At the annual meeting of the Empire State Forest Products Association 

 November, a number of forceful resolutions were passed pledging the 

 duence and support of the Association in various phases of forestry con- 

 rvation now under way in New York State. 



Among them are the following: 



RESOLVED, That we approve the bill known as the Jones bill, which was 

 ssed by the Senate and Assembly at the last session of the Legislature, and 

 tich provides for the exemption from taxation of lands dedicated to re- 

 gestation purposes, as we believe that such a law will encourage the use of 

 ich otherwise waste land, for the propagation of forest trees, and the in- 

 case of forest area of the State, and this Association further respectfully 

 juests the Governor and Legislature next assembling to adopt some such 

 ovision. 



RESOLVED, That we endorse the public spirited, unselfish efforts of the 

 mp Fire Association to investigate, and, under the able and intelligent 

 section of the Hon. Gifford Pinchot and Hon. Overton W. Price, suggest 

 provements in the methods employed in lumbering the Adirondack forests; 

 d we pledge our co-operation in support of any reasonable reforms, and in 

 ;ablishing rational scientific forest management, with due consideration to 

 r business and commercial interests. 



RESOLVED, That we express to the Association for the Protection of the 

 lirondacks our honest desire to confer and co-operate with them for the 

 rpose of harmonizing the several interests in the Adirondacks, to the end 

 it this vast estate of the people may be operated and maintained for the 

 jatest good of the greatest number. 



