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prospective owners cannot afford to chase of which $50,000 has recent! v 



practice conservative forest manage- been appropriated by the State. 



ment because of economic conditions. These are on] a few of the more im _ 



Small areas distributed over the por tant problems with which the State 



state to serve as demonstrations of has to deal M otherg are awaiti 



practical forest management. soluti such ag ^ { * 



Lands of special value for State , and h b] f - 

 parks, or watershed protection. 



Maryland owns less than 2,000 acres Se / ts ' an ^ dlseases > the encouragement 



of State Forests located in the moun- of . . wood-using industries that will 



tain section and which may be classed utlllze low S rade material and make 



under number 1 above. These came to forest management more profitable, the 



us by gift at the time the first forest protection of shade and roadside trees, 



law was enacted. The five demonstra- and new ones constantly asserting 



tion forests under State supervision, themselves as new conditions are pre- 



but privately owned, served as the sec- sented. 

 ond class of State Forests; while the 



third will be represented in the Pataps- * Photographs bv courtes of the Maryland 



co Park, near Baltimore, for the pur- State Board of Forestry. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS 



MEETING 



midsummer meeting of the made of about seventy-five miles to 



directors of the American For- Deer Park Hotel at North Woodstock 



estry Association will be held in stopping on the way to see the State 



the White Mountains, in connection Nursery at Boscowan and to lunch at 



with a trip on July 17, 18 and 19, ar- Plymouth. At Deer Park Hotel the 



ranged by a joint invitation extended to party will join members of the So- 



them and their guests by Governor ciety for the Protection of New Hamp- 



Bass, of New Hampshire, the presi- shire Forests in a short visit to the 



dent of the American Forestry Asso- most beautiful Lost River Reserve 



ciation ; the New Hampshire Forestry nearby, lately purchased by the Society, 



Commission and the Society for the returning to the Hotel for dinner and 



Protection of New Hampshire Forests, the night. The morning of Thursday, 



The following itinerary has been ar- July 18, the party will proceed by au- 



ranged for all those starting from New tomobile through the profile notch to 



York, but it is desired that if it is more the Mt. Washington Hotel, Bretton 



convenient for others to join the party Woods, for lunch and remain there in 



at some point en route that they may attendance upon the fifth annual fores- 



feel free to do so. If sufficient ac- try conference which is to be held at 



ceptances to the invitations are re- Bretton Woods on the 18th and 19th 



ceived a special Pullman car will be under the auspices of the Society for 



attached to the regular 8 p. m. train the Protection of New Hampshire 



for Concord, N. H., at the Grand Cen- Forests in co-operation with the State 



tral Station, New York, on Tuesday Forestry Commission and the Asso- 



evening, July 10, which will be side- ciation of North Eastern Foresters, 



tracked at Concord on Wednesday Short excursions from this point can 



morning. easily be taken to see the New State 



The party will breakfast Wednes- Reservation of Crawford Notch and 



day, July 17, at the Eagle Hotel and the proposed Federal Reserves to be 



Governor Bass will then receive and purchased under the Weeks Act. The 



welcome the party at the State Capitol, special Pullman will be brought from 



Automobiles will be furnished through Concord to Bretton Woods for those 



the courtesy of a number of those in returning to New York and leave at 



attendance and an automobile truck to about 8:30 a. m., July 20. and arrive in 



carry all baggage. A run will then be New York at about 9 p. m. 



