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Such a meeting as this is calculated to do a great deal to advance the 

 cause of forest protection by awakening interest in the question and by 

 unifying effort. With these ends in view it was unanimously decided 

 to organize the convention into a permanent body to be known as the 

 North Carolina Forestry Association, this association to have a Presi- 

 dent, Secretary-treasurer, and one Vice-President for every Senatorial _ 

 District in the State in which sufficient interest in forestry had been 

 manifested. The work of the Association was placed in the hands of an 

 Executive Committee, consisting of the President, Secretary-treasurer, 

 and five other members, to be appointed the first year by the president 

 of the Association. The object and aim of the association was declared 

 to be "the protection and perpetuation of the forests of ISTorth Carolina." 

 Dr. D. H. Hill, of the A. & M. College, Kaleigh, was elected President 

 of the Association, and Mr. J. S. Holmes, Forester of the N'orth Caro- 

 lina Geological and Economic Survey, Chapel Hill, Secretary-treasurer. 

 The President subsequently appointed the following gentlemen as mem- 

 bers of the Executive Committee : Col. B. Cameron, Raleigh ; Mr. Clar- 

 ence Poe, editor Progressive Farmer, Raleigh; Dr. J. H. Pratt, State 

 Geologist, Chapel Hill; Mr. H. M. Shaw, president Southern Wheel 

 Company, Oxford; and Mr. E. B. Wright, manager Butter's Lumber 

 Company, Boardman, jST. C. The very fact that such prominent men 

 are behind this movement speaks well for its future success and use- 

 fulness, and also inspires the confidence of the public in any recommen- 

 dations it may make. 



The organization of county or district associations, in connection 

 with this State Association, to stir up and direct local sentiment, would 

 do more to make the society effective and to forward the forestry move- 

 ment than any other kind of work that could be undertaken. The good 

 roads movement has received its greatest impetus from town and county 

 good roads associations, though the State organizations have done splen- 

 did work. In the same way local forestry clubs, societies, or associa- 

 tions, or forestry branches of other bodies, acting in accord with the 

 State Association, may do a great work in educating the people to a 

 realization of the importance of forest protection. There are forestry 

 sections of several of the women's clubs in the State that are doing good 

 educational work, and the number might, Avith advantage, bq increased. 

 Different phases of forestry will appeal to different organizations ; street 

 planting to civic clubs, protection of watersheds and regulation of 

 stream flow to Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade, perpetua- 

 tion of the timber supply to labor organizations and lumbermen, the 

 management of the wood-lot to Farmers' Clubs; but protection of the 

 forests from fire should appeal to all. 



