FORESTRY ADDRESSES 



At the Fifth National Conservation Congress. 



Thursday, November 20, 1913. 



President Pack: The Congress will please come to order. We take up 

 the program today, as ordered under our rules by the Executive Committee. 



We have with us this morning the President of the American Forestry 

 Association and it gives great happiness to the officers and directors of the 

 Conservation Cgngress, as I know it will to you, to have him preside over this 

 splendid forestry session of the National Conservation Congress this morning. 

 I have great pleasure in introducing Doctor Henry S. Drinker. (Applause.) 



Chairman Drinker: Ladies and gentlemen of the National Conservation 

 Congress, I think you understand that the American Forestry Association went 

 into consultation through its officers, during the past year, with the Executive 

 Committee of this Congress, relative to joint action at this Congress, to make 

 the Congress a success, so far as the foresters could contribute their share to it, 

 and they have been holding sectional meetings up to this time. The meeting 

 yesterday afternoon, as you know, was intended to be devoted particularly to 

 forestry ,as was this meeting this morning. Owing, as the President has intimated, 

 to the occurrences of yesterday, our meeting today is going to be rather crowded 

 with very much good material. It will be wise for the speakers to condense 

 their talks as far as possible and to hurry them as far as possible, so we may 

 get all we can out of the two sessions into one. Under the ruling of yesterday, 

 I am advised that we are to go on with so much of yesterday's program as we 

 can take up at this time, which we will now proceed to do. 



I therefore call upon Mr. Henry S. Graves, United States Forester, for his 

 address upon "Federal Forestry Work." Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Graves! 

 (Applause.) 



FEDERAL FORESTRY 



By Henry S. Gravus, forester in charge of the Federal Forest Service. 



THE part played by the Nation in forestry must always be large. Here, 

 as in all other countries, the real development of forestry began when 

 the government took up its practice. Even today some persons would 

 leave the forests entirely to private owners ; others insist that the public phases 

 of forestry are altogether a State function and Federal activities in this field 

 uncalled for. Those who hold this view are usually either lukewarm concerning 

 the need for forest conservation or opposed to restricting private activities. 



National responsibility in forestry is perfectly clearcut. There need be no 

 confusion with an equally clear-cut responsibility of the States. And as to 

 private forestry little of value has so far been done that has not been an outcome 

 of public action through State or Federal agencies, or both. It was the work 

 of the Federal Government in placing its own forests under administration, its 



