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fact that his personal experiences and observations had forced him to the con- 

 clusion that a great portion of what was marked on the map as "The Great Northern 

 Forest/' has been severely burned over and cannot be counted upon as a commercial 

 asset. Where the timber is found it consists mainly of poplar, jack pine and spruce, 

 which for local use by a future population wiH be of inestimable value. In Mr. 

 Macoun's opinion, however, the green timber of commercial value is largely con- 

 fined to the water courses. 



The PRESIDENT. I will now call upon Professor Baker, of Pennsylvania 

 State College, to say a few words. 



Professor H. P. BAKER. Gentlemen, I thoroughly appreciate this privilege 

 of giving you a few minutes talk. I know if Doctor Rothrock, who has been with 

 you in other years, and whom you know, had known that I was to be here, he would 

 have sent greetings to you. He has been working for many years in Pennsylvania, 

 trying to awaken the people to the realization of the importance of forestry. If 

 we could take our people over the State and let them see for themselves the thous- 

 ands of acres of burned hillsides, we would readily succeed in awakening them to a 

 sense of the danger. Dr. Rothrock has been hammering away at our people for 

 years, and is now almost at the end of the way. We need such propaganda work in 

 Pennsylvania "as much as any State in the Union. Our State has 800,000 acres 

 of forest reserve, and we want to increase this to one or two million acres. I 

 think that they could do this by simply turning the barren lands into forest reserves. 



As to the work at Pennsylvania State College, I may say that a department 

 of Forestry was organized last fall, by Dr. Fernow, and that we now have thirty 

 students, classified in the various subjects. We have an excellent opportunity at 

 the College because of its nearness to one of the largest State Forest Reserves, 

 and we hope to work in the same way as any other of the undergraduate schools 

 of the country. (Applause). 



The meeting then adjourned until the afternoon. 



