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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



the forests from fire, the people of the State 

 feel that the system now established is of 

 great value. 



A large number of tools, etc., for fighting 

 fire have been distributed the past season and 

 about seventy miles of additional telephone 

 lines constructed. 



North Carolina 



The great interest North Carolinians feel 

 in securing the wisest use and most efficient 

 control of all our natural resources, whether 

 the property of the individual, of the State, 

 or of the Nation, was shown by the large 

 and representative delegation which attended 

 the National Conservation Congress recently 

 held in Washington. 



At the first meeting of the State delega- 

 tion, called for the purpose of selecting offi- 

 cers, Mr. Z. W. Whitehead, of Wilmington, 

 was elected State Vice-President, and Mr. J. 

 S. Holmes, of Chapel Hill, State Secretary 

 for the ensuing year, while Col. W. A. Blair, 

 of \Vinston-Salem, was elected a member of 

 the Resolutions Committee. 



Of the seventeen delegates present at the 

 Congress four had been appointed by Gov- 

 ernor Craig to represent the State, four rep- 

 resented the North Carolina Forestry Asso- 

 ciation ; the University of North Carolina, 

 the State Department of Agriculure, and the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers Association 

 each sent one delegate, while the remainder 

 represented their own home towns. The 

 variety of interests represented is seen in the 

 fact that six delegates were lumbermen or 

 timber users, five were teachers or scientists, 

 two were bankers, two were large land- 

 owners, and one was a prominent club 

 woman. 



The unanimous attitude of the delegation 

 was expressed in the following resolution, 

 adopted at their first meeting: 



"Resolved, That it is the sense of the 

 North Carolina delegation and they hereby 

 request their representative on the Resolu- 

 tions Committee to vote for strong Govern- 

 ment co-operation in the matter of conser- 

 vation, believing that it is only through the 

 Government that certain conservation poli- 

 cies can be successfully carried out." 



The newly-elected Vice-President, Mr. 

 \\liitehead, in speaking of the Congress a 

 few days later, at the monthly meeting of 

 the North Carolina Pine Association at Nor- 

 folk, said that "nation-wide benefits would 

 result not only to forestry and timber, but 

 our water-power sites and other national re- 

 sources would lie conserved and advanced as 

 well as protected and safeguarded." He gave 

 it as his opinion that this institution, i. e., 

 the National Conservation Congress, "should 

 be heartily supported and that the lumberr 

 people shall take an active interest in shap- 

 ing its policies in the future." 



The North Carolina delegation in all test 

 votes, at which times there were always from 

 nine to eleven delegates present, went defi- 

 nitely on record as favoring strong govern- 



ment control of water powers, and only one 

 vote was cast against endorsing the advanced 

 and patriotic stand of Mr. Pinchot on this 

 subject. 



The tone of the State press, in comment- 

 ing on the Conservation Congress, thoroughly 

 endorses its action; while the lumber jour- 

 nals throughout the country are unanimous 

 in praise of the congress, its stand and ac- 

 complishments. 



New York 



The regular session of the New York State 

 legislature has passed a concurrent resolu- 

 tion amending the Forest Preserve section 

 of the constitution. The present provision 

 prohibits any direct use of this enormous 

 area. The proposed change will permit the 

 removal of mature, dead or fallen timber, 

 or permit thinning; authorizes the leasing of 

 camp sites ; the construction of necessary 

 roads and trails ; also the sale of isolated 

 parcels of land without the Adirondack and 

 Catskill Parks. This provision will neces- 

 sarily have to be adopted by a subsequent 

 legislature and submitted to a vote of the 

 people before it is active. 



Governor Glynn has already stated that he 

 is very much interested in an extension of 

 reforesting, better forest-fire protection, and 

 the purchase of additional lands for Forest 

 Preserve purposes. 



Massachusetts 



At the annual meeting of the Massachu- 

 setts Forestry Association there was dis- 

 cussed the advisability of obtaining State 

 Forests in Massachusetts, and a bill will be 

 presented to the legislature this year asking 

 for $30,000 a year for five years, with which 

 to purchase wild and waste land in Massa- 

 chusetts. It is believed by the Association 

 that this will be the means of bringing into 

 the productive list much of the now worth- 

 less land in the State which is yielding noth- 

 ing for the owner or for the State through 

 taxation. 



Several important addresses on State For- 

 ests as applied to Massachusetts were given. 

 Prof. W. D. Clark, of Amherst, talked on 

 "State Forests in Massachusetts as a Busi- 

 ness Proposition." Philip T. Coolidge, in 

 his address on "State Forests in the United 

 States," gave very interesting data concern- 

 ing the lands owned and held in the various 

 States as State Forests. William P. Whar- 

 ton talked on "State Forests as Bird Sanc- 

 tuaries," giving specific examples from Ger- 

 many. State Forester F. W. Rane sum- 

 marized the work of his department to date, 

 showing what had been done toward pro- 

 curing State-owned forest lands. The meet- 

 ing has aroused considerable enthusiasm on 

 State Forests, and we believe that it will have 

 direct bearing on the passage of the bill 

 which is to be presented to the incoming 

 legislature. 



The present status of the White Mountain 



