ATTENTION, LUMBERMEN 



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loss through fire in their work is but 

 a fraction of one per cent of the tim- 

 ber. Michigan lost about $3,500,000 

 in forest fires last year. Such a de- 

 fenseless condition as now obtains 

 should not be tolerated in a civilized 

 community, especially since it has been 

 demonstrated that adequate means can 

 be employed. 



Every sportsman and naturalist 

 knows that forests not only provide the 

 necessary food for many wild birds 

 and animals, but afford protection also 

 for the winter. To permit the destruc- 

 tion of the forest means the loss of 

 their food supply and homes. Those 

 that are left will not have adequate 

 protection for their nests and young, 

 and of course, being in a defenseless 



condition, their extermination will be 

 all the more rapid. 



The Michigan Audubon Society, of 

 which I am president, was organized 

 for the protection of all forms of wild 

 bird and wild animal life. We offer 

 our co-operation to those engaged in 

 the upbuilding of our forests, knowing 

 that if we have not forests, we will have 

 but few varieties of the wild birds and 

 animals. We must stand together and 

 help each other in every way possible 

 in order that we may not only preserve 

 the beauty of the landscape, but the 

 many delightful forms of wild crea- 

 tures that make life better and because 

 we owe it to posterity to pass down the 

 splendid inheritance we have received. 



ATTENTION, LUMBERMEN 



following resolution was 

 passed at the annual convention 

 of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers Association at Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, on May 8 : 



WHEREAS, THE AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY ASSOCIATION is 

 maintained as a voluntary public serv- 

 ice organization to further the perpetu- 

 ation and better use of our forest re- 

 sources, and 



WHEREAS, it is the only organiza- 

 tion which reaches and appeals direct 

 to the public in a popular way regard- 

 ing forestry and lumber matters, and 

 maintains for this purpose a monthly 

 magazine known as AMERICAN FOR- 

 ESTRY, and 



WHEREAS, the lumber industry 

 as a whole is keenly interested in for- 

 est conservation and in means of ac- 

 quainting the public with the problems 

 of fire protection, forest taxation, 

 freight rates, legislation, and conserva- 

 tive management and reforestation, 



BE IT RESOLVED, that the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Associ- 

 ation endorse the work of the American 

 Forestry Association and pledges its 

 support to the cause, 



AND BE IT FURTHER RE- 

 SOLVED, THAT EACH MEMBER OF THE 

 NATIONAL, LUMBER MANUFACTURERS' 

 ASSOCIATION BE URGED TO AFFILIATE 

 WITH THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSO- 

 CIATION BY BECOMING A MEMBER AND 

 SUBSCRIBING TO THE MAGAZINE. 



A P INC HOT PRIZE 



Gifford Pinchot, of the class of 1884, Phillips Exeter Academy, and former national 

 forester, has offered a small annual prise for proficiency in woodcraft and forestry which 

 he hopes will incite tlie boys of the academy to use the zvoods and forests on Plimpton field 

 more tJian they ordinarily would. 



ENGLAND'S VANISHED FORESTS 



The forests for which England was at one time famous have vanished, or only exist in 

 the attenuated form of carefully preserved woods and parks, from which can be obtained 

 anly a fraction of the supplies needed. 



