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Washington, while, in the same year, E. A. Bowers entered the gov- 

 ernment service as inspector in the Land Office ; and in the following 

 years these two men issued a number of reports and articles of impor- 

 tance, these appearing not only in government publications and in 

 magazines, but in scientific journals. Both men read papers relating to 

 forest preservation at the meeting of the American Economic Asso- 

 ciation in December, 1890/^^ 



Much of the valuable literature on forestry was written for special 

 forestry journals, of which several appeared diiring the eighties. In 

 1886, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association began the publication of 

 a bi-monthly journal, Forest Leaves, which has persisted to this day; 

 and in 1888, Professor C. S. Sargent of Harvard University pub- 

 lished the first number of Garden and Forest, which for ten years did 

 much to enlighten the public on forestry matters. Previous to this, 

 however, the first Journal of Forestry had appeared, edited by F. B. 

 Hough. This journal survived just one year, vanishing for lack of 

 readers,^^^ but it was followed by irregularly appearing forest bulle- 

 tins, several of them written by Dr. Fernow. 



FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONS 



Several forestry associations were formed during this period. The 

 American Forestry Association had been organized in 1876, but had 

 not prospered. In 1881, however, on the occasion of the centennial 

 celebration of the surrender of Yorktown, several descendants of 

 Baron von Steuben came to America, and to the influence of one of 

 these, an official in the Prussian Forest Department, can be traced the 

 meeting of the American Forestry Congress at Cincinnati the next 

 spring. ^^^ This Forestry Congress lasted five days, among the spec- 

 tacular features of the occasion being a parade of 60,000 school 

 children to the tree-planting exercises. 



Other associations were formed from time to time, more or less 

 under the lead of the national association. The same year that the 



111 Am. Ec. Assoc. Publications, 6, 154, 158. 



112 Fernow, "History of Forestry," 432. 



113 Dr. Fernow, in a speech delivered at I-ehigh University in 1911, gives an 

 interesting sidelight on the influence of politics in the conservation movement. He 

 says that the Forestry Congress at Cincinnati was part of a political movement to 

 boom the candidacy of a man who was seeking the office of mayor at that time. 



