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attractive little volume upon foresftry, written for beginners. Upon the 

 organization of the School of Forestry in the Michigan University, he 

 was called by the Board of Regents to organize it and be responsible for 

 its development. The Michigan Forestry Commission, in naming its first 

 Forest Warden, called Prof. Roth to the work, and it relies upon him, 

 more than any one else, for the prosecution of the progressive measures 

 which shall be adopted by the State. 



Dr. Judson F. Clark is a Canadian by birth, and completed his course 

 Oi study, with post-graduate work in foresti'y, at ('ornell University. He 

 was for some time assistant to Dr. Fernow in the Forest School at Cornell, 

 and from there became an attache of the Bureau of Forestry at Wash- 

 ington. In furtherance of the work here in Michigan, and upon applica- 

 tion of our Forestry Commission to the Bureau of Forestry for special 

 work along the lines of wood lot development, he was assigned to work in 

 our State, and his report in this volume is an epitome of his accomplish- 

 ments here. He is now connected with the Department of Forestry in 

 the Dominion, having been recently called to the important position of 

 State Forester. 



Hon. I. H. Butterfleld is a pioneer in the forestry movement in this 

 State. He is an enthusiastic lover of the woods, and during his long 

 connection with the State Agricultural Society, as member of its execu- 

 tive committee and as secretary, he has been constant in his endeavor to 

 awaken an interest in the preservation of woodland areas in Michigan. 

 He was for years on the managing board of the Agricultural College, and 

 became its secretary. For years he was the agricultural editor of the 

 Detroit Tribune, and during the initial stages of forest legislation in our 

 State, he performed a great service by putting into shape the text which 

 was presented in the form of a bill, and, with some modifications, enacted 

 into the first law providing for a Forestry Commission. 



Dr. W. J. Beal, of the Michigan State Agricultural College, from his 

 boyhood has been a great lover of trees. During his early life he was in 

 the midst of the rich and varied forest growth of Lenawee coonty. While 

 bis specialty in the educational field has been botany, he has given large 

 attention to matters of forestry, and, more than any other man, has con- 

 tinued the agitation of forestry subjects in this State, looking toward 

 the preservation of woodland areas through the agricultural regions, and 

 a rational system of lumbering in that part of our State which has been 

 devoted to the lumbering interests. In the meetings of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society he presented papers in the early history of that society 

 upon forest preservation, and as a result of this agitation the Legislature 

 provided for the organization of a Forestrj- Commission, consisting of 

 the Board of Agriculture. Dr. Beal was appointed by the board as one 

 of the men to carry out the provisions of the act, and in this capacity he 

 made the first bulletin upon forestry subjects which was published in this 

 State. Since the enactment of the more recent legislation, he has been of 

 great help to the present commission. The writer of this word is under 

 the greatest obligations for inspiration and assistance, and when Michi- 

 gan forestry shall have attained the measure of success which is worthy 

 of the cause and which is bound to come. Dr. Beal's name will occupy the 

 greatest historical prominence. 



Prof. James Satterlee is a graduate of the Michigan State Agricultural 

 College, and afterward became professor of horticulture in that institu- 



