organization consisted of members 

 from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, 

 Kentucky, and South Carolina. Little 

 beyond that is known about it. This 

 merger, however, was one of the 

 American Forestry Association's first 

 real contacts with the southern 

 forestry association movement. 



Also in 1888, the American Forestry 

 Association influenced the 

 establishment of an apparently short- 

 lived forestry association in Texas. (It 

 was not until 1914 that a permanent 

 and continuing association was 

 formed in that State.) Ten years later, 

 in 1898, a North Carolina forestry 

 association was formed at New Bern 

 with the encouragement of the North 

 Carolina Geological Survey and State 

 Geologist J. A. Holmes, an early 

 member of the American Forestry 

 Association. The stated purpose of 

 the North Carolina association was to 

 encourage better forest management 

 in the State; however, like its 

 predecessor in Texas, the association 

 was short lived. In 1911 North 

 Carolina established a permanent 

 forestry association that has continued 

 to the present. 



American Forestry Association. The 

 cause was finally successful, but not 

 until 1911 with passage of the Weeks 

 law. 



While the American Forestry 

 Association's efforts were getting 

 under way in the East, totally 

 unrelated forestry association 

 activities began in the upper mid- 

 South. The Missouri-Arkansas 

 Lumber Association, organized in 

 1883 by sawmill operators in those 

 two States, was one the earliest 

 manifestations of cooperative effort 

 by lumber manufacturers in the 

 region (Horn 1951). It was succeeded 

 in 1890 by the Southern Lumber 

 Manufacturers Association and later 

 the Yellow Pine Manufacturers 

 Association in 1906. With formation 

 of the Southern Pine Association in 

 New Orleans in 1915, these local and 

 regional associations were absorbed 

 into and succeeded by the Southern 

 Pine Association, now the Southern 

 Forest Products Association. This 

 group became the representative of 

 the southern pine lumber industry and 

 certain other wood-products 

 manufacturers in the region. 



Meanwhile, the Appalachian National 

 Park Association, later the 

 Appalachian Forest Reserve 

 Association, was formed in 1889. Its 

 primary objective was to encourage 

 Congress to create a forest reserve in 

 North Carolina. Despite strong 

 support from State Geologist Holmes 

 and other influential citizens, the 

 movement failed; in 1905 the Reserve 

 Association was dissolved and its 

 efforts merged into those of the 



The Mississippi Valley Hardwood 

 Lumber Manufacturers Association 

 was formed in 1898. It was 

 concerned largely with development 

 of industry grading rules. After a 

 series of mergers, its work is now 

 largely incorporated in that of the 

 Southern Hardwood Lumber 

 Manufacturers Association, with 

 headquarters in Memphis. In 1984, 

 through a series of further mergers 

 and consolidations, this organization 



