THE NATIONAL FOREST ADMINISTRATION 869 



offer the timber on terms which will possible effort is given to develop small 

 tend to increase transportation facilities, sales for the supply of local needs, and 

 promote settlement, and build up per- sales to industries which require wood 

 manent communities. Where timber for special purposes, since sales of this 

 can be sold the benefits of Government character provide a fairly steady market 

 management of the forests as public for national forest stumpagc, even when 

 resources are apparent now. Where, the general market is depressed. In a 

 however, the timber is not in present word, the timber-sale policy, no less than 

 demand a difficult situation sometimes the grazing-regulation policy, aims to 

 exists. make the resource serviceable to the 

 " It has been urged that, with the vast public now, as well as in the future, in 

 supplies of virgin national forest timber, the fullest degree which scientific pro- 

 the Government should greatly increase duction and utilization can make pos- 

 its sales by lowering the price asked for sible." 



stumpage. To the extent that such a In the section dealing with forestry 



course had any effect at all it would be, the Secretary also points out that the 



in the long run, an effect unfavorable forests have passed through an unusually 



to the public interest. Upon the greater dry and dangerous summer without 



part of the timber it would have no serious fire damage. He indicates that 



effect, because no manufacturer could, the present emergency fund of $100,000 



under present conditions, afford to cut for fire protection of one billion of dollars 



the timber at any price. Where timber o f public property is inadequate even in 



is thus not in demand because still ordinary seasons. In discussing the 



inaccessible, as a rule the possibility of reC reational use of the forests, which he 



marketing it depends on the advent of a hoMs to be the chief of thdr second 



period of greater activity in the general he ^ h department 



lumber trade, when, as at the present , \ , , & , , , , 



time, lumbermen are forced by general should be enal ? led to rant * er f l ff* 



market conditions to curtail output, the to P^ons wishing to use the land for 



department can not expect to make summer homes or hotels. He also 



many large sales. Nevertheless, it is emphasizes the importance of protecting 



wise even in such times not to cease the watersheds in the forests, so that the 



offering large bodies of timber on terms water supply of the 1 : 200 communities 



which may attract purchasers, and this supplied from this source may not be 



is being done. At the same time all polluted. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING ! 



The annual meeting of the American Forestry Association will be held on Monday, i 

 January 11, in New York City at the headquarters of the Merchants Association of New 



SYork, Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway. 

 The sessions will be at 10 a. m.; 2 p. m., and 7 p. m. 



This is a departure from the usual custom of holding the meeting in Washington, 

 I D. C., the change being made because New York is more accessible to the many thousand j 

 = New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey members than is Washington, = 



and because members of the Society of American Foresters and of the Society of Eastern 

 I Foresters will assemble in New York on the same day. 



The meeting will consist of a series of addresses and discussions on what the American 

 Forestry Association can do to aid during the coming year in national, state and private 

 I forestry and in encouraging the use of forests for recreation. There will also be discus- 

 | sion of measures for aiding by careful investigations of conditions affecting them, and other- : 



wise, the lumbermen, timberland owners and pulp and paper interests. It is proposed to 

 | make the meeting an eminently practical one, one at which the addresses and discussions will 



!be of great service in outlining the important work of the Association for the coming year. 

 The complete program will be announced in the January American Forestry Magazine. 

 j Members of the Association and their friends are requested to attend and to participate 



". in the discussions. 



