96 UNITED STATES FOREST POLICY 



American Forestry Association was formed, a similar organization 

 was perfected at Montreal, although it never attracted a very large 

 membership, and never exerted great influence/^* The next year, the 

 Ohio Forestry Association was organized^^^ — an outgrowth of the 

 Cincinnati Forestry Club. In 1886, the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso- 

 ciation was formed,^^" always thereafter one of the most active of these 

 associations. Somewhat similar to these was the Kansas Horticultural 

 Society, which, at the time of the formation of the Pennsylvania asso- 

 ciation, was publishing its seventh annual report. A forestry conven- 

 tion was called in Maine in 1888 to discuss timber protection.^^^ 



In the South, the development of conservation sentiment was very 

 slow, yet some interest was shown during this period. In the late 

 eighties, a forestry association was formed in Texas; two state for- 

 estry congresses met in Florida ; and the Southern Forestry Congress, 

 an interstate association, was formed, and later affiliated with the 

 American Forestry Congress.^^® 



STATE ACTION 



As a result, in some measure at least, of this associated effort,^^® 

 many of the states appointed forestry commissions or commissioners. 

 Most of these were instituted to work out appropriate forest policies 

 for the states, but some became permanent parts of the state organi- 

 zation with executive or merely educational functions. ^^° In 1880, and 

 later in 1885 and 1889, temporary commissions were created in New 

 Hampshire, and in 1882, one in Vermont ; but of much greater impor- 

 tance was the New York commission of 1884. The legislature of New 

 York appropriated $5000 in 1884 for the employment of experts to 



114 Am. Jour, of Forestry, Dec, 1882. 



115 First Ann. Report, Ohio State Forestry Bureau, 1885. 



116 Pinchot, "Progress of Forestry"; Affr. Yearbook, 1899, 293-306, 304. 



'^^T Report, Kansas State Horticultural Society, 1886: Proceedings, Am. For- 

 estry Congress, 1888, 7. 



118 Proceedings, Am. Forestry Congress, Dec, 1888, 7, 34. 



119 The American Forestry Congress at Cincinnati in 1882 had chosen a com- 

 mittee to memorialize the state legislatures in regard to the establishment of state 

 forestry commissions. {Proceedings, Am. Forestry Congress, Apr., 1882, 14; Aug., 

 1883, 27.) 



120 Agr. Yearbook, 1899, 299. 



