Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-18
TO SAVE THE TREES.
The Annual Meeting of the American Fol
estry Association to BE Held Here.

The Annual Meeting of the American For
estry Association to BE Held Here.
The American Forestry Association will hold
its tenth annual meeting in this city beginning
Tuesday, the 29th inst .and continuing two days.
The morning sessions viii be devoted to bust
ness and VII be held at the Department Of
Agriculture. The afternoon sessions. to which
the public is invited. will be held in the lecture
hall Of the National Museum. At the after
noon session of the frs. day the executive
Committee on the establishment of national
forest reservations will be made and addresses
on the subject are expected from the Secretary
Of the Interior. the commissioner OF the gen
eral land Office and number of Senators and
Representatives. On the following day a me-
mortal on the subject will be presented to the
President and at the public session papers re-
lating TO the forestry question will be pre-
sented by Clifford Pinchot of New York, J. d.
W. French Of Massachusetts, President G. h
Adams Of Cornell University and Il. L. Fernow
of the Department OF Agriculture
The executive committee mas issued en- adj
dress. which says: '.Since the last annual meet
ing OF the association the executive committee,
Represented by q quorum of its Washington
members, has held fourteen regular sessions
and has, in conjunction with the forestry
division of the Department of Agriculture,
worked up the necessary data for the recon-
mendation to the President of the United
States OF public forest reservations, 70 be set
aside under the law of March 3, 1881. which
authorizes the President to make Withdrawals
OF public lands for forestry purposes Upon
the return OF the President 10 the city a special
committee, in conjunction with the forestry
committee from the American Association for
the Advancement Of Science, waited upon the
President with memorial. transmitting the
data regarding the proposed forest reservations.
1our committee Is gratlhed not only to re-
port the Presidents s. assurance that he would
give the broadcast construction to the law which
permits these reservations, but also the prompt
action OF the Secretary OF the Interior. through
the commissioner of the land ofice in detail
ing agents to investigate and report upon the
disturbances of the proposed reservations The
temporary withdrawal pending the decision of
final reservation, OF several tracts has also been
ordered, and your committee is in constant and
friendly relation with the commissioner of the
general land Office, assisting in bringing these
matters to an issue 1t proposed to prepare
further recommendations for forest Teserya-
lions. to be submitted to the President by the
ASSOCIATION az tue coming annual meeting"
The president Of the association is William
Alvord OF San Francisco. Cal. The list of vice
presidents represents nearly all the states and
territories. The other officers are Dr. Henry
h- Fisher. Philadelphia treasurer: DIR. " III
tgleston- Department of Agriculture record
ing secretary. and Edward A. Bowers, Washing
ton, ID. C., corresponding secretary. The ex-
ecutive committee consists of IL. T. Fernow
Chairman; H. IL. Ayes. Charles c. Binney. Col
Z T. Ensign, Hon Warren Hiyley and Henry
Z Peiiew, with the ohi.ers of the association.