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The 1,800,000 acres owned by the State could serve as a play ground for all of New England and New York, if camp sites could be leased. If the ripe timber could be cut, a splendid revenue could be derived.

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OLLOWING the meeting at Syracuse, Dr. N. L. Britton, Director of the New York Botanical Gardens and President of the State Forestry Association called a meeting of the Executive Committee to be held at the Bronx Gardens, March 18, 1913. At this meeting purely routine business was transacted and it was decided to accept the invitation of Director Britton. to hold the autumn Forestry Association meeting at the Botanical Gardens, October 17, 1913.

The autumn meeting brought forth the various committee reports and informal discussions on the following subjects:

Stock taking of Forests of New York State" led by Professor Moon of the New York State College of Forestry.

The Farm Woodlot" led by Prof. Walter Mulford of Cornell.

Dr. N. L. Britton spoke of the relation of trees to children and promised to continue the discussion at the next annual meeting.

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HE Second Annual Meeting of the New York State Forestry Association held January 22, 1914, in the auditorium of the State Education Building, Albany. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Augustus S. Downing in the absence of President Britton. The regular program was opened by a paper presented by Prof. Samuel N. Spring of the State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., on Commercial Planting in New York State.

Hon. Charles M. Dow spoke on Forest Arboretums for New York and Dr. Henry S. Drinker, President of Lehigh University and the American Forestry Association, presented a paper on Forestry in New York and Throughout the Nation.

A vote of thanks was given Doctor Drinker for his excellent paper and for the cordial spirit shown by his coming up from Pennsylvania to be present at the annual meeting.

Mr. Robert Rosenbluth of the Conservation Commission desired to present a paper on the opening up of the Adirondacks but in view of the limited time the paper was delayed.

Professor Mulford was invited to read a communication regarding the Adirondack situation and the matter

presented was referred to Committee on Resolutions.

The afternoon session was called to order at 2 P. M. with Dr. Augustus S. Downing in the Chair. Hon. James S. Whipple of Salamanca presented a motion to the effect that it is the sense of the Association that the Legislature be petitioned to appropriate funds for the copies of Bulletin No. 9 on Woodlot printing and distribution of 50,000 Forestry as printed by the Conservation Commission, seconded by Professor Spring. Suggestions were then made that this motion be referred for action to the Committee on Resolutions.

Dr. E. H. Hall, Secretary of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks then presented a paper on the Policy of Increasing Forest Holdings of the State.

Mr. Ottomar H. Van Norden, Member of the Forestry Committe of the Camp Fire Club led a discussion on legislation, bringing out the chief points of a bill to be introduced at the coming session of the Legislature and which it is planned to have take the place of the present forest laws.

Hon. J. S. Whipple was appointed by the Chair to call on Governor Glynn and escort him to the meeting. Mr. Whipple returned later with the statement that pressure of business pre

vented the Governor coming over at that time but that he would either come over to the meeting at 4 o'clock or would be glad to meet the members of the Executive Committee in the Executive Chamber.

Mr. W. L. Sykes, President of the Emporium Lumber Company spoke extemporaneously on the lumberman and the Adirondacks.

Dr. John H. Finley, Commissioner of Education, gave a very delightful talk of 10 minutes in which he spoke of the original forest conditions of the State and welcomed the Association to the Education Building and to Albany.

Prof. Nelson C. Brown of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse presented a paper on the Progress of Forest Utilization in New York.

The Committee on Nominations, Mr. Frank L. Moore, Chairman, presented their report and the report of the Committee was accepted unanimously by the Association in regular form. The new officers were as follows:

President. Hon. James S. Whipple, Salamanca, N. Y.

Executive Secretary.- Dr. Hugh P. Baker, The N. Y. State College of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y.

Treasurer. Warren H. Miller, Editor, Field & Stream, New York City. Vice-Presidents.- John B. Burnham, Essex, N. Y.; Frank A. Cutting, Boston, Mass.; George N. Ostrander, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Hon. W. H. Vary, Master, State Grange, Watertown, N. Y.; Chancellor James R. Day, Syracuse, N. Y.; Hon. Calvin J. Huson, Albany, N. Y.; Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York City; Hon. Charles M. Dow, Jamestown, N. Y.; Hon. George E. Van Kennan, Albany, N. Y.; Dr. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y.; Dr. Augustus S. Downing, Albany, N. Y.; Dr. Henry W. Hill, Buffalo, N. Y.; Dan Beard, Flushing, N. Y.; Mrs. Donald R. McLean, New York City; Mrs. E. G. Colburn, Schenectady, N. Y.

Executive Committee.- Dr. Edward Dr. Edward H. Hall, New York City; Prof. Samuel N. Spring, Ithaca, N. Y.; Ferris J. Mein New York City; Clifford R.

Pettis, Albany, N. Y.; Prof. Frank F. Moon, Syracuse, N. Y.; Frank L. Moore, Watertown, N. Y.; O. H. Van Norden, New York City.

The new President, Hon. J. S. Whipple, of Salamanca, was called upon for remarks and spoke of the situation of forestry in the State and the future of the Association.

Mr. Frank L. Moore of Watertown introduced a discussion as to the advisability of the Association putting itself on record in the matter of amending section 7, article 7 of the Constitution. It was moved and carried by the Association that it endorse the so-called Sweet amendment introduced last year. Dr. Hall and Mr. W. L. Sykes spoke on the endorsement of this amendment.

Moved and passed unanimously that it is the sense of the meeting that the State of New York shall make appropriation or bond itself for $10,000,000 for the purchase of forests or idle lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills for forestry purposes. This was also referred to the Resolution Committee.

Moved and passed that it is the sense of the meeting that the Legislature of the State shall appropriate sufficient sum of money with necessary provisions and establish such necessary machinery at as early a time as possible as shall allow of the defining of the limits of State lands.

The Auditing Committee, of which Mr. Whipple was Chairman, made a partial report declaring it to be impossible to make a complete report, as the records were not complete. 5:30 the annual meeting was adjourned to meet at the annual banquet in the evening.

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Some thirty men sat down to the annual banquet at Keeler's Hotel which, while not largely attended, was very enthusiastic in spirit.

Former Commissioner Whipple acted as toastmaster for the evening. Informal talks were presented by Commissioner John D. Moore, Hon. Frank L. Moore, President of the Empire. State Forest Products Association, and Dr. W. A. Murrill, Assistant Treasurer of the New York Botanical Gardens. Dr. Murrill's talk was illustrated.

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R. Henry Sturgis Drinker, President of Lehigh University, and President of the American Forestry Association, speaking on the Forestry movement in the United States, said in part:

Foresters and the friends of forestry in your sister States are noting with great interest, the discussion in New York looking to a revision of the policy adopted in the past of denying to New York the benefit in the management of the State's woodlands of the principles of forest culture, viz: cutting and reproduction, that have been generally approved in Europe and America as conducive to the economic and profitable management of forest lands.

Local conditions may have made it necessary or advisable to deny to your State Forest Lands the exercise of the principles of forestry in the interest. of retaining your forests for a time in a wholly wild condition as a refuge for game and a wilderness home for the man who would for a time fly from civilization, but surely with forests aggregating over 1,600,000 acres in New York State, by far the largest State Forest Reserve of any State, the time must soon come when the State Constitutional prohibition against all cutting shall be amended, and these great Forest Reserves shall be handled as the National Reserves are so admirably handled, with the view to the best care and conservation of your woodlands for the benefit of the people at large of the State and the State's industrial interests.

The Forestry movement in the United States, originating with the early work of Dr. J. T. Rothrock in Pennsylvania and of Dr. B. E. Fernow in New York and elsewhere as pioneers, has grown and spread to the dimensions of a great national work. The earliest organizations for its study and support were the American Forestry Association and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. There was also an early Colorado Association. The Pennsylvania Association

started in 1886, has, continually since that date, published and circulated its magazine, Forest Leaves. The exact date of organization of the American Forestry Association is involved in some uncertainty, but it appears to Association, and it has now a large and somewhat antedate the Pennsylvania

nation-wide roll of members and its magazine, American Forestry, is dothrough its meetings, publications and ing good work for the cause.

The above initial movements have so

spread that the Forestry organizations and the various Forestry associations in the United States today cover 33 States having Forestry departments. 17 States having Conservation Commissions and similar organizations. Conservation organiza

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