138 OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



Europe. Malone, New York, and numerous other 

 towns have established municipal forests quite aside 

 from watershed maintenance. 



The latest innovation in the idea of a community 

 forest consists of a so-called forestry company. In 

 such a corporation anyone is allowed to purchase 

 stock, and the funds are used for the purchase and 

 planting of abandoned farm lands. The first com- 

 pany of this kind to be organized in New York is 

 the Otsego Forestry Company, located at Coopers- 

 town. During the past two years it has planted 

 about two hundred acres and now owns a total of 

 six hundred acres suitable for reforestation. A 

 similar organization has been perfected by the 

 Conservation Club of Oneonta, New York, which 

 has purchased about three hundred acres of land to 

 be maintained as a game refuge as well as for the 

 purpose of creating a new forest. The Fish and 

 Game Club of Bainbridge, New York, has under- 

 taken the reforestation of a tract of forty acres 

 presented to the Club, and, as the conditions which 

 accompany this gift of land provide that if at any 

 time the club may cease to exist the land and forests 

 shall go to the town of Bainbridge, this project may 

 also result in the establishment of a strictly town 

 forest. 



These represent a few noteworthy eastern exam- 



