pressing her interest in the purposes 

 A Word of this Convention and saying that 



From although she supposed women would 



Mrs. King not be very prominent in carrying on 



the work of the organization, she 

 thought they could, in their own localities, awaken an 

 interest which would be very helpful, and pledging her- 

 self to take an active part in the work which this Con- 

 vention should outline. 



Regent Loyal E. Knappen, of the Michigan Univer- 

 sity management, expressed strongly and forcefully 



his interest in the formation of an or- 

 Regent ganization which will take up system- 



Knappen atically a very needed work in Michi- 



Talks gan, and create public opinion which 



shall stand behind the Forestry Com- 

 mission in its efforts to rehabilitate a large portion of 

 our State which at present is a menace rather than a 

 credit. 



Prof. Filibert Roth outlined what he expected the 

 Convention to do, saying that he hoped it would be a 

 business men's Convention and characterized by per- 

 fect freedom of expression on the part 

 Prof. of those interested in Michigan forests, 



Roth's as lumbermen, as manufacturers and 



Hope as educators. He especially hoped 



that during the sessions of the Con- 

 vention there would be a free interchange of thought 

 with regard to delinquent tax lands, farm woodlots, 

 protection from fires and trespass, and a reasonable 

 system of taxation which should foster rather than dis- 

 courage reforestation. 



Hon. C. J. Monroe, President of the 

 Pres. Michigan Board of Agriculture, said 



C. J. Monroe that he was born about the time that 

 Says Michigan as a State was born, and he 



A Word had been identified more or less with 



the clearing up of a portion of it. In 

 his younger days he did some surveying at a period when 

 men employed surveyors to run lines for the purpose 

 of including as large values within their holdings as 

 possible. He had known of pieces of land which had 

 been gone over at six different times by lumbermen, 

 each time cutting a little closer, and each time getting 

 good value out of the property. He was greatly im- 

 pressed by the rapidity with which ground would re- 

 habilitate itself with forest cover if given a fair chance, 

 and he welcomed a movement which would foster a 

 State plan of reforestation. 



Mr. Porter, of Saginaw, followed Mr. Monroe with 

 a word concerning the changed attitude of lumbermen 



with reference to the volume of forest 

 Porter products in the State. Only a few 



Speaks for years ago the pine was considered 



Lumbermen practically inexhaustible, and when 



that was nearly gone, the hardwoods 

 were represented to be sufficient in quantity to last for 

 generations. Before the woodman's axe, however, the 

 virgin timber of Michigan had disappeared so rapidly 

 that even lumbermen were looking for other fields to 

 conquer, and were beginning themselves to be inter- 

 ested in some plan of creating a supply in our own 

 State to fill their demands. 



Mr. O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, whose 

 A interests have been always very largely 



Landscape in Michigan, spoke very delightfully off 



Gardener's the beauty of our State as expressed! 



view in its forest cover, and that any move- 



ment which 'would protect it or add to- 

 it, would be welcomed by the lover of trees. He men- 



