Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-04
.PlNCHOT LAUDS
FORESTRY WORK
IN CALIFORNIA
SAYS ANGELUS RESERVATION
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
VIAL NOT DISCUSS CONTROVERSY
WITH 5ALLlNeER
Chief Forester Is Guest of Yale Alumni
Association at Banquet and Gives
Address on Timber
Conservation
NIFFoRD P1NcHoT, forester and

~ IFFORD PINCHOT, forester and
III preserver of the Roosevelt con-
W servation policy, is at the Van
Nuys hotel when he is not passing the
time as the honorCd guest "of some
local organization.
If Mr.. Pinchot had had any doubts
about the regard held for him by Los
Angeles citizens they must have been
dispelled by the delegations which
waited on him from the time he regis
tered at the hotel yesterday afternoon.
He hopes to get to Santa Catalina
island by Monday and will pass two
weeks there fishing with Charles F.
Older, Senator Flint and Stewart Ed
ward White.
1.-THE cooperation of the people
around the Angelus national forest is
all the forest service could ask" said
Mr.. Pinchot last night. 1T is much
better than anywhere else in the coun-
try. So far as the name is concerned,
if the people can agree on one name
1 don't care what 1t is, but objections
to the present name have included a
proposal to substitute two names in
stead of one. 1t has been proposed to
call it the Roosevelt forest as COM
promise.
1.-THE work of the forest service is in
good shape. We now have 195,0000OO
acres reserved as against some 30,000,-
900 ten years ago, and the working
force is more than 1000 men. This
number will be increased greatly and
there will be an increase in the rev
enues which will make a smaller net
expense.
Satisfied with Results
1--WE think we have the work of re-
forestration where it will bring right
results and be Wci ieeG no piopet
shape. The policy of the service re-
garding use permits opposed to per-
petuaI rights to power sites, conduit
lines and similar privileges is in line
with the general public feeling that
these valuable privileges should not
be given away for all time to come
without just compensation"
Mr.. Pinchot refused to discuss the
Ballinger controversy. He sald the
bureau of corporations has Its exhaus-
trust well under way and that ne
could not anticipate that report by any
statement on the trusts operations.
Last evening Mr.. Pinchot was the
Quest of the Los Angeles chapter of the
Vale Alumni association of Los An
geles Thirty members were present
at the dinner rendered in his honor'
Mr.. Pinchot addressed the guests
but touched lightly on forestry mat
ters "Without Yale men," he said,
"the forestry service would have been
crippled. 1 do not see how 1t could
have been built up to its present EN- :
ciency without the aid of alumni or
Yale university who have taken the
lead In the work.
Conservation Movement Grows
"Out of forestry has grown the wild
er conservation movement, Whlch VIII
spread until it attains much greater
significance than that which 1t now
holds. Conservation in its broadcast as
meet now means the sum of the FORCES
which are tending to set the country IN
the right direction. 1t Is a movement
for national efficiency. 1t means the
use of all that it is and has along the
line of intelligent foresight. 1t VIII
supply a new set of solutions for the
problems which now confront the ma
tion. For that reason it is in its es-
sence the biggest movement of tho
times"
B. N. Fowler, newly elected presl-
dent of the national irrigation congress,
also addressed the gathering. He PAID
a high tribute to President Roosevelt
as the originator of the conservation
policy. rudely paraphrased in this In
stance by one of the guests at the
conversation" policy Mr.. Pinchot was
lauded as patriotic, unseltish and non
est" in his services in the preservation
of the national forests.