the Herty Pulp and Paper Laboratory 

 at Savannah in 1931. Subsequently, 

 the association became inactive, only 

 to be reorganized again in 1945. It 

 continues to be a strong force at 

 present. 



In 1911 the North Carolina Forestry 

 Association was reactivated after the 

 short-lived effort of 1897, and it has 

 been in continuous operation since. 

 The association has been active in ( 1 ) 

 encouraging reforestation of several 

 million acres of the State's idle lands. 

 (2) supporting better fire protection 

 and development of better timberland 

 cutting practices, and (3) supporting 

 and working with the State division 

 of forest resources, the schools of 

 forestry at North Carolina State and 

 Duke Universities, the USD A Forest 

 Service, and other groups concerned 

 with forest resources. 



Also in 1911. Congress passed and 

 President William Howard Taft 

 signed the Weeks law, which the 

 American Forestry Association and a 

 number of other cooperating groups 

 had long advocated. This legislation 

 authorized national forest acquisition 

 in the Eastern States. But more 

 importantly, it encouraged the various 

 States to enter into cooperative forest- 

 fire protection agreements with the 

 Forest Service under authority given 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. This 

 was another giant step forward in 

 protecting the resource. By 1924, 

 when the Weeks law was amended by 

 the Clark-McNary Act, 29 States 

 were cooperating under these 

 provisions. Land under fire 

 protection, meanwhile, had jumped 



from 60 million acres to 178 million 

 acres (24.3 million ha to 72 million 

 ha). 



In 1914, the Texas Forestry 

 Association was reestablished— 26 

 years after the first effort in 1888. 

 Largely through the new group's 

 efforts, the Texas Forest Service was 

 created in 1915 as a unit of Texas A. 

 & M. College (now University). The 

 association has been very active and 

 effective in forestry legislation and 

 forest policy matters, as well as in 

 promotion of reforestation activities 

 in the State. 



The following year, 1915, saw 

 another major development in 

 southern forestry with the founding of 

 the Southern Pine Association (now 

 the Southern Forest Products 

 Association) in New Orleans. For 

 many years this organization served 

 as the industry's only representative 

 in the South engaged in forest 

 conservation activities. Two of its 

 primary purposes were publication of 

 official grading rules for pine and 

 maintenance of an inspection system. 

 Subsequently, these activities were 

 transferred to an autonomous 

 Southern Pine Inspection Bureau. 

 Even from the beginning, however, 

 the Southern Pine Association was in 

 the forefront of forest conservation 

 work in the South. 



One of the initial acts of the Southern 

 Pine Association was to help organize 

 the first Southern Forestry 

 Conference, held at Asheville, NC, in 

 1916 under the leadership of Joseph 

 Hyde Pratt, director of the North 



