420 Uniied States. 



tion useful for the education of the public, of wood con- 

 sumers, and timberland owners, as its limited appro- 

 priations permitted, undertaking also some scientific 

 investigations, especially iu the line of timber physics. 



Soon after, in July, 1898, when the writer resigned 

 his position as Chief of the Division of Forestry, to or- 

 ganize the first professional forest school, the Kew 

 York State College of Forestry, Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 took charge of the Division. Young, ambitious, ag- 

 gressive, with some knowledge of forestry acquired in 

 Btirope and with influential connections and a large for- 

 tune, he easily secured the first need for efEective sowing 

 on the well-plowed field before him — appropriations. 

 Whatever had been feebly begun could be broadly, some- 

 times lavishly, extended, and the new idea of making 

 ''working plans" for private timberlamd owners could be 

 developed — a great educational work, which, earlier, 

 when even co-operation with State institutions was con- 

 sidered a questionable proposition, would have been 

 turned down as too paternal. 



In five years the appropriations had increased ten- 

 fold, to over $250,000; and in the first decade of the 

 new regime, around $3,000,000 had been spent on for- 

 estry investigations, not counting expenditures on for- 

 est reservation account. 



A further strong support came into the field, when 

 Mr. Eoosevelt became President of the United States, 

 in 1901, and unreservedly threw his over-powering in- 

 fluence into the balance, to advance forest policies. 



Owing to his interest, the withdrawal of public tim- 

 berlands from entry proceeded at a rapid rate : by 1902, 

 the reservations had grown to 65 million acres ; in 1905, 



