Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-23
FORESTRY ASS N
TAKES STEPS TO.
PROTECT TREES.

TACOMA. Wash, Feb % lP.-
'All officers OF tho Western Forestry
and Conservation aA3ociation were
reelected this afternoon at the con-
Guiding session Of the annual CON
terence here.
W. e, Laird, of Potlatch, Idaho,
retains the presidency OF the or
ganization, and five vice-presidents
were reelected as follows:
Washington. e. G. Ames; Mon
tana, w. G. Lubrecht; Oregon,
George 3. Mcleod; Idaho, G. a..
Barton; California, G. II. Johnson.
= Trusteea who retain office are:
Washington, George S. Long; Mon
tana, Walter lNeils; Idaho, Hun
tin%ton Taylor; Oregon, George L..
Mcpherson; California, w. M.
Wheeler
G. s. Chapman. pf Tacoma, was
reelected secretary-treasurer
Resolutions adopted covered all
phases of the forest protection prob
lem, headed by a resolution urging
federal expenditures of s$1,S75,O00
as absolutely necessary" to com
plete Tacific coast fire control
program which will be effective and
toward which, we, ourselves, are
contributing in far greater proper
tioh."
This money would be expended
as follows: $1,500,000 for the
promised federal cooperation with
states under the Clarke -McNary
law; $250,00O increase over present
national forest appropriations to
give Gre preventive facilities ap-
preaching those given by local
agencies to surrounding forest
lands; 1875, 900 for protection of
forested public domain, now left
in part to the care of non-federal
agencies; $4,000 to enable the
weather bureau to give the infor-
nation necessary for effective and
economical fire control.
Regarding distribution of the
allotment of funds under the
Clarke-McNary ;act, the conference
urged that state estimates be based
upon the cost of definite contem-
plated protection organization.
Support was given the proposal
of the United States forest service
to put all states on a $3.50 reim-
bursement basis effective for the
fiscal year of 1929. This would
match state expenditures with fed
eral money.
Other resolutions urged:
Adequate funds from congress
to permit the bureau of entomology
to conduct studies of insect prob
lens in western forests and to pro-
vide for control measures on the
public lands with a continuation
of the study of tree diseases and
provision for their control.
2-Continuation ,of research and
agitation in the western states to
the enactment of equitable laws
governing the taxation of reforest-
ing lands.
3-Development by each state of
an efficient personnel to deal with
law enforcement as a means off
reaching the careless and criminally
negligent per ons responsible for
the increasing number of man-made
fires.
4-Insurance of .reforesting
lands, declaring it as logical as any
other property insurance andN as
serting that it is mainly because of
lacking interest and cooperation
among insurance companies and /
forest owners.
5-All forest agencies and the
press to broadcast exact conditions
forest firest with sys-
temized efforts, toward this end.
6-Research and experiment to
provide localized methods appli.
cable to western conditions rather
than blanket rules governing the
entire country /
7-Continued educational work
by all fire protection agencies for
an extended public campaign to
keep before the, people the need
Of forest protection and perpetua- !
Lion