26 CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



FORESTRY WORK IN THE UNITED STATES. 

 MR. OVERTON W. PRICE, ASSOCIATE FORESTER, UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, I can assure you that it is a real pleasure 

 to me to be here to-day and on behalf of my chief, Mr. Pinchot, whom you all know, 

 I may say that he regrets deeply that he is unable to be here, and has commissioned 

 me to carry his greetings to this Convention. 



We who are in forest work on the other side of the line are always glad of 

 the chance to come together with you who are facing the same task before your own 

 great country. Not only do you make that such an altogether pleasant thing for 

 American foresters to do, but it is helpful for all of us who have the better use of 

 the forest at heart to take counsel together, no matter which side of the line we hail 

 from. And above all our joint work will be done the better the more thoroughly 

 we each understand what the other is striving for, and the more we work in broad 

 purpose and policy essentially together. 



The forest problems before Canada and those confronting the United States, 

 differ in their details, but only in their details. Your industrial and commercial 

 growth inevitably will be checked, as ours will be checked, unless you take care of 

 your forests. Great as your forests are, your lumber industry will consume itself 

 in the end, as ours has begun to do, unless Canadian lumbermen rightly use their 

 timber lands instead of using them up. But on the other hand, you are supremely 

 fortunate, as we are supremely fortunate, in having in his Excellency, the Governor- 

 General, (as we have in our President), one who is both the strongest source of 

 inspiration and the strongest pillar of support, of a movement for a better use of 

 the forest. 



I want to outline very briefly what the. recent progress of our forest work has 

 been along important lines, and the helpful and abiding interest which your Asso- 

 ciation has always shown in that work makes it a very real pleasure to tell you about 

 it. 



The greatest material achievements in conservative forest management in the 

 United States lie in its application to the 160 million acres included in the National 

 Forests, and to a rapidly increasing area of the timber lands in private ownership. 

 But of still wider promise, in my judgment, than even these great accomplish- 

 ments, is the awakening of the great body of American citizens to what forestry, 

 and the lack of forestry , means to them. The common knowledge is gaining ground, 

 that forestry is not only a wise policy for the government to enforce upon the 

 National Forests, not merely a profitable method for the lumbermen to employ 

 upon their own holdings, but that its application directly benefits every man who 

 uses timber, whether he owns it or not. 



That public sentiment, although it is still in the making, is a greater national 

 asset in my judgment than the National Forests themselves and they are worth 

 in the neighborhood of two billions of dollars. I do not mean that the purpose and 

 the results of forestry are yet adequately understood forestry is not yet, as I 

 believe it is going to be, a household word among us but I do mean, that there 



