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With the conclusion of Volume VI of the Forester, Mr. 
Leopold G. Blackman retires from the post of editor, after five 
years of efficient service. Mr. Blackman’s resignation is caused 
Idv increasing duties resulting from the growth of Aliiolani Col- 
lege. At a meeting held on January 19, 1910, when his resigna- 
tion was regretfully accepted, the members of the Board of Agri- 
culture and Forestry expressed hearty appreciation of the great 
utility of Mr. Blackman’s services and of the increasing value of 
this magazine as a factor in its special field. 
]\lr. Blackman will be succeeded as editor by Mr. Daniel Logan, 
who will take charge of the Forester next month. A newspaper 
man of long experience in this Territory, who has always taken 
much interest in the subjects with which this journal has to do, 
Mr. Logan may confidently be expected to give to the readers of 
the Forester a magazine that will not fall below the standard 
that has been set by Mr. Blackman. 
GIFFORD PING HOT. 
January, 1910, is a month that will be memorable in the 
history of American forestry. The summary dismissal from of- 
fice by President Taft of Gifford Pinchot, the Forester of the 
Department of Agriculture and Chief of the Forest Service, is an 
event that is of far-reaching importance. 
This is not the time nor are the facts in hand for a discussion 
of this latest phase of the conservation controversy. But on the 
other hand this opportunity is one that the acting editor cannot 
let pass without bearing tribute to the services that Mr. Pinchot 
has rendered to the nation during the past twelve years. 
The wbrk that Gifford Pinchot has done is too well known to 
need again to be described here. To him is due the major share 
of the credit for building up the Forest Service from a mere 
handful of gatherers of statistics and propagandists into the ef- 
fective agency for the service of the people that it is today, when 
over 194,000,000 acres of national forest are under efficient ad- 
ministration and the people of the Nation are being helped in 
very many other ways to a wiser use of their forest resources. 
And not only in forestry, but in the larger field of Conservation 
is it to Mr. Pinchot that much of the credit belongs. President 
Roosevelt has justly been praised for getting the Conservation 
Movement actually under way, but what did Mr. Roosevelt say 
in his opening speech at the Conference of Governors in 1908: 
“To the initiative, the energy, the devotion to duty and the far- 
sightedness of Gifford Pinchot we owe much of the progress we 
have already made in handling this matter of the coordination and 
conservation of natural resources.” 
