FORESTRY ADDRESS TO STUDENTS 



Extracts from an Address on Forestry by Committees arranged for and financed 



Delivered by invitation before the Faculty and wholly by the American Forestry Associ- 



Student Body of Oberlm College, Ohio, ,. J J / n 



January 16, 1914, by Henry Sturgis Drinker, atlon . were presented on the following 



President of Lehigh University and President subjects: 

 of the American Forestry Association. 



Secondary Forestry Instruction in the 



In the opening words of this Address, United States. 



Dr. Drinker summarized, as he did in The^^^^Pa ^^nd^oS^f 



his address at Tome Institute published foj ^L^T\^' 3 



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in the October number of AMERICAN Forest Tax Legislation. 



! FORESTRY, the rise and history of the Fire Prevention by States, by the 



Forestry and Conservation movement Federal Government, and by Private 



,-, , ,1 1 1 Interests. 



in this country, noting the early work The conditions under which Commercial 



in conservation of the American Insti- Planting is Desirable, 



tute of Mining Engineers, so long ago Lumbering. 



as 1871, in the appointment of its Com- The Closer Utilization of Timber 



... ,, , ,, The Relation of Forests and Water, 



mittee to consider and report on the Federal Forest Policy, 

 waste in Coal Mining"- the constant 



warnings that have come from the "With the above reports by special 



[engineering professions the Confer- sub-committees, the General Forestry 



:nce of Governors at Washington, Committee also submitted a general 



:alled by President Roosevelt and report giving a synopsis of these sub- 



argely the result of the insistent public committee reports, and also published 



Dreachings on Conservation and For- an exhaustive and able report on 



sstry of Gifford Pinchot the calling ' State Forest Organization with special 



n 1909 of the first Conservation Con- reference to Fire Protection' by Mr. J. 



^ress at Seattle and finally the splendid Girvin Peters, Chief of State Coopera- 



"orestry record of the last or Fifth Con- tion in the U. S. Forest Service. These 



servation Congress held last autumn. reports are without doubt the best full 



In regard to the meetings of this summary ever made of the whole 



ongress, Dr. Drinker said: 'The forestry situation in our country. The 



ongress has addressed itself in its various committees were composed of 



several meetings to many important picked men, experts on the subjects 



chases of Conservation. Forestry was treated, and the reports are obtainable 



^iven much attention in the first two by application to Mr. P. S. Ridsdale, 



sessions. Then the one at Kansas City Executive Secretary of the American 



in 1911 was largely devoted, as Presi- Forestry Association, 1410 H Street, 



lent Wallace expressed it, to the Con- N. W., Washington, D. C." 



servation of the fertility of the soil and Dr. Drinker in his address then 



the life of the people who live in the touched on the early history of the 



jDpen country. The Congress at Indian- American Forestry Association and of 



apolis in 1912 was devoted to the study the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, 



,of the Conservation of vital resources paying tribute to the services to the 



and the health of the people, and finally cause by Dr. J. T. Rothrock and Mr. 



in this last Congress of 1913 Forestry John Birkinbine as Secretary and as 



again came to the front, and the President of the latter Association, 



principal subjects of discussion were founded so long ago as 1886, and then 



Forestry and our water power re- said: 



sources two full sessions of the Con- "These initial movements have now 



5 r ress and a large number of sectional so spread that the Forestry State 



meetings being devoted wholly to for- Organizations and the various Forestry 



?stry; and at these sectional meetings a Associations in the United States 



set of ten exhaustive reports, prepared cover: 



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