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small consideration, is rapidly losing title to immense tracts of land 

 covered with timber, which should be properly reserved as permanent 

 sources of timber supply." 



Movement in the States. 



Since the various phases of the forestry movement in all parts of 

 the country may be claimed to be due, however indirectly or remotely, 

 to the present influence or to former labors of this association, a brief 

 statement of the progress of the movement in the States may be here 

 in place. 



The forest commissioner of Maine continues to prepare the way for 

 an extension of his usefulness on the basis of the fire law which has 

 been so successfully applied. 



The New Hampshire Forest Commission continues to popularize the 

 idea of State interest in forest protection on the White Mountains. 



In Massachusetts the most notable step is the one taken by the city 

 of Boston in the establishment of a series of extensive forest parks, 

 which, although reserved for park rather than forestry purposes, may, 

 in time, be managed for both purposes. The excellent institution of 

 the " Board of Trustees of Public Reservations," a few years ago 

 inaugurated in Massachusetts, may also in time prove of great use in 

 the establishment of public forest reservations throughout the State. 



An extended course of special forestry lectures given at Amherst 

 College may be noted as a progressive movement in the educational 

 direction. 



The State of New York voted for the incorporation into its constitution 

 of a clause forbidding the cutting of any timber on its State lands. 

 This association expressed its disapproval of such a provision by a 

 resolution passed at the White Mountain meeting, believing that forest 

 conservation and utilization of the timber crop should go hand in hand, 

 and that while a temporary cessation of lumbering operations until 

 proper forestry methods could be developed might be expedient, it was 

 undesirable and inimical to the development of rational forest manage- 

 ment to prevent for a term of twenty years (the time when such a 

 constitutional provision could be changed) the development of such 

 management in the State which had the best opportunity for doing so. 



In Pennsylvania, Dr. J. T. Rothrock, a member of the State Forest 

 Commission, has made a most successful propaganda among the people 

 throughout the State, which, it is expected, will result in the establish- 

 ment of State forest reserves under a permanent commission. The 

 Pennsylvania Forestry Association, in most flourishing condition, is, 

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