HO Report of the Forest Commission, 



Commissioners of the Land Office and the State Forest Commis 

 sion, after an adequate public hearing. 



2. To prohibit the building of dams in this region by means of 

 which any lands belonging to the State may be flooded, and the 

 forests thereon may be destroyed. 



3. To increase the efficiency of the State control in the direc- 

 tion of preventing forest fires, protecting and punishing trespass- 

 ers upon State lands, renewing the forests upon the denuded and 

 burnt districts, and introducing a thorough, conservative, scien- 

 tific forest administration. 



Besolved, That so far as these provisions may be needed to 

 maintain favorable conditions in the Catskills, the Helderberg 

 and the Shawangunk mountains, and elsewhere throughout the 

 State, they be extended to cover these districts. 



The officers of the New York State Forestry Association are : 





Presid 

 Morris K. 



ent. 

 Jesup. 





Vice-Presidents. 



Charles K. Adams, 





Seth Low, 



W. K. Bergholz, 





Clinton L. Merriam 



Grover Cleveland, 





Warner Miller, 



Willard A. Cobb, 





John S. Newberry, 



Jesse D. Crary, 





Ellis H. Roberts, 



Mrs. D. G. Croly, 





Carl Schurz, 



Wm. C. Doane, 





John C. Smock, 



Mrs. Henry Herrman, 



Richard S. Storrs, 



Warren Higley, 





Egbert L. Viele, 



Harrison E. Webster. 



Treasurer. 

 Henry A. Oakley, 18 Wall street, New York. 



Recording Secretary. 



E. B. Southwick, Arsenal Building, Central Park, New York. 



