io6 OUR FEDERAL LANDS 



tection, $5,000, was made in 1872. In 1873 the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence memorialized Congress and the legislatures of 

 several states on the necessity for forest protection. 

 Between 1869 and 1878, protective and forest cul- 

 ture laws were passed by Maine, Connecticut, Rhode 

 Island, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mich- 

 igan, Illinois, Missouri, Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, 

 Colorado, Washington and California, and the 

 movement emerged to plant trees along highways. 

 In 1874 Nebraska inaugurated Arbor Day. In 

 1878 President Hayes called the serious attention 

 of Congress to the need of better protecting forests 

 on federal lands. 



Thus gradually began forest conservation, 

 though the name was not yet current. The popular 

 movement may be dated, for the sake of a date, from 

 the action of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science in 1873. The committee con- 

 sisted of H. P. Hough of New York, who was ex- 

 ceedingly active thereafter for many years, George 

 B. Emerson of Boston, Asa Gray of Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, J. D. Whitney of California, J. S. 

 Newberry and Lewis Morgan of New York, Wil- 

 liam H. Brewer of New Haven, Charles Whittlesby 

 of Cleveland, Ohio, and E. W. Hilgard of Ann 

 Arbor, Michigan, whose names may constitute a 

 Roll of Honor. 



Representative Herndon of Texas followed up 

 the Association's campaign in 1874 with a bill to ap- 



