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Show OPPOSE FOREST SERVICE CHANGE Transfer to Department of Interior Termed Out of Place WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The American Forestry association at its annual meeting Thursday, which also u ih in the natnrv of an observance of its fortieth anniversary, adopted a I resolution opposing transfer of th forest er Ico from the department of agriculture to the department of interior. in-terior. 'It would slmrily mean two fore; services." Col. Henry 9 Graves, former chief of the service, said, "for the I growing of forest crops is the business I of agriculture. Such a move would mean duplication of effort and 'oss of efficiency " PRESIDENT SPEAKS. Other resolutions urged congress so adopt a national forest policy law to improve, fire prevention methods; ir.-creaso ir.-creaso research work and provide additional ad-ditional national forests and forest lands The association in celebrating its anniversary' called on the country to mark another date also the snn-contennlal snn-contennlal of the first Arbor dnv In the United States, April 10 1872 The opening address was made by Charles Lathrop rack of Lakowood, X' I Iha nnuMonl "Let us mark this fortieth anniversary anniver-sary with :i united front for a forest policy, ' he said. "Thanks to the fine cooperation of the editors, the American Ameri-can Forestry association has awakened awaken-ed thousands of people to the value of our forest resources. i I Hi ; i.oss iii.w y 'Threatening the future prosperity of the country are two bur items, our i yearl) losses from forest fir and our hundreds of millions of acres of forest for-est lands which are not growing forests. for-ests. "Two million feet of timber are dc-lroyed dc-lroyed by forest flies every year During the past five years najpro than 1 f,n Dull f,,i . st. Hi ,.s , i U1 ,-,., ;,, the United States, 80 per cent of which were preventable. These conflagrations con-flagrations burned over 56. 468. 000 a res and destroyed ?S5, 700,000 worth of timber." |