IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 



ONE of the most important actions 

 taken by the directors of the 

 American Forestry Association, 

 who held their midsummer quarterly 

 meeting in the White Mountains on 

 July 17, 18 and 19, was the passage of 

 a resolution protesting vigorously 

 against the proposed amendment to the 

 Agricultural Appropriation Bill, soon 

 to be acted upon by the Senate, which 

 provides that all lands in the national 

 forests, "suitable and fit" for agricul- 

 ture, must be classified and listed for 

 settlement whether it is wise or unwise 

 to remove them from public control. 

 This resolution has been sent to each 

 member of the Senate with a request 

 for his careful attention. 



The directors, with a number of 

 guests, including State foresters, for- 

 estry instructors, State officials, timber- 

 land owners, paper and pulp company 

 officials and a number of other promi- 

 nent men, gathered at Plymouth, N. 

 H., on the morning of July 17 and, 

 through arrangements by Col. W. R. 

 Brown, of the Berlin Mills Company, 

 journeyed to North Woodstock in auto- 

 mobiles. The afternoon was spent in 

 looking over the Lost River reserve, 

 recently acquired by the Society fur the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 

 and the members of the party climbed 

 down the course of the Lost River for 

 some distance among the mammoth 

 boulders, into the caves they form, and 

 viewed the remarkable scenic effects 

 caused by some remote convulsion of 

 nature, with wonder and delight. Mere 

 is a spot, which, when the road to it is 

 improved, will become the mecca of al- 

 most every sight-seeing party going 

 into the White Mountains. 



There followed in the evening, at the 

 Deer Park Hotel, a meeting partici- 

 pated in by the directors of the Asso- 

 ciation, and under the auspices of the 

 Society for the Protection of the New 

 Hampshire Forests. Some three hun- 

 dred deeply interested people attended, 

 many of them of national prominence. 



They included Mrs. Grover Cleveland, 

 Governor Robert P. Bass of New 

 Hampshire, the president of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, who opened 

 the meeting with words of welcome; 

 former Governor F. W. Rollins, who 

 presided; former Governor Ouimby of 

 New Hampshire, former Governor 

 Woodruff of Connecticut; President 

 John H. Finley of the College of the 

 City of New York; President Henry 

 S. Drinker of Lehigh University, and 

 as ex-Governor Rollins said -"so many 

 distinguished people that you could not 

 turn around without bumping into one 

 of them." 



W. R. Brown, president of the New 

 Hampshire Forestry Commission, told 

 about the progress of forestry in New 

 Hampshire during the year, his address 

 appearing on another page; a paper by 

 Montgomery Rollins, on the acquisition 

 of Lost River, was read; E. E. Wood- 

 bury, an orator of North Woodstock, 

 told of the towns interested in the Lost 

 River, and there were talks by Dr. Fin- 

 ley, ex-Governors Quimby and Wood- 

 ruff, Dr. Drinker, Dr. B. E. Fernow of 

 Toronto, P. S. Ridsdale, executive sec- 

 retary of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, and others. 



The following day the entire party 

 journeyed by automobile to Bretton 

 Woods where Thursday and Friday 

 were spent in viewing the Crawford 

 Notch reserves, and at several impor- 

 tant meetings discussing forest prob- 

 lems and conditions of the day. The di- 

 rectors of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation held their sessions at the Mt. 

 Washington Hotel and ilie other meet- 

 ings were at the Mount Pleasant and 

 the Crawford House. 



Reports of the condition of the Asso- 

 ciation were most satisfactory and 

 showed that the membership is steadily 

 growing, that the sphere of its influence 

 is rapidly extending, and that it is now 

 regarded as one of the most important 

 organizations, for the good of the gen- 

 eral public, in the country, and as such 



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