Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
.CONGRESSCONVENES.
SIxTY-FIRST SESSION BEGUN
MONDAY OF THIS WEEK,
More Protection for Standing Timber
and ReforestatiOn of out-over Lands
Practical Men to Be in Charge of
the Work-Executive Officers of AS.
ISOLATION From Northwest.

S"PPOAI anu cooperation by
the people, legislators and lumbermeu
OF, Idaho, Oregon Montana, California
ana Washington in practical methods
OIL securing better management and pro
lection OF standing forests and the re.
Iorestatlon of cut-over lands is the OBJ
Ject OF campaign outlined at the re.
cent seml-annual meeting of the West
ern Forestry and Conservation associa.
ton in Spokane. George NJ. Cornwall
Oh Portland is secretary. Arrange.
ments were made to finance and con.
duct the movement SO as to obtain
actual results to serve as object lessons
Z. L. Allen of Portland, formerly dis
trlct forester in charge of all govern.
ment forest work in Oregon, Washing
ton and Alaska, has been engaged as
forester. The meetings will take place
in Spokane.
E. T. Allen in Charge.
Mr.. Allen has resigned from the gov
eminent forest service to give his en-.
tire time to the new movement
although in recognition of it's useful
public character the government allows
him to retain the official title of collab-
orator. Among the chief objects sought
by the organization, formed under the
name of the Pacific Northwest Forest
Protection and Conservation associa-
ton, in Spokane last January, are the
formation and perfection of fire fight
ing associations throughout the west
ern states, in which state, government
and timber owners shall join in hiring
patrol and labor; the selection of repre-
sentative areas for conservative log
ging and reforestation experiments, and
the collection and dissemination of
trustworthy information upon forestry
and forest legislation. In reality, to
make it a clearing house for all forest
fire and conservation associations of
the five states, also to cooperate closely
with the United States forest service.
Other objects set forth by the speak
ers at the meeting are as follows: "The
successful preservation of the forest
from fire, the framing of laws for cut
ting timber and disposing of refuse in
reasonable, practical way, the refor-
estation of such cut-over lands as are
not desirable for farm lands, and to
provide for special taxation therefor;
the preservation of mountain streams
for irrigation and all of the other
things contemplated by the word con
servation, and also to raise the money
to carry out the necessary experiments
so as to reduce the theory to a sound
business basis, for without all these
elements q the association cannot hope
to succeed"
Fight Fires
Particular stress will be laid upon
the necessity Of. more adequate protec-
ton of forest resources from fire. The
forest fire associations of Washington
and Idaho spent more than 100000
during the season of 1909 and it is ex-
pected to bring the timber owners of
other states into line. The association
also expects more public and legislative
cooperation when it is more generally
realized that on every Thousand feet
OF timber burned the stumpage owner
loses only dollar or two, while the
loses fully So worth which
would have been paid in wages for its
manufacture, while of the millions of
dollars brought into the five states
yearly by the lumber industry, fully
80 per cent is circulated in the arteries
Of labor, commerce and agriculture.
This argument is advanced in the in
terest of the protection of standing
timber from useless destruction, also
for the perpetuation of such a ire
nendous source of wealth by encourag-
ng second crop.
Officers.
The executive officers of the associa-