Word: forester
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Weeks said that the question of our forests, like all great governmental problems, has taken a long while to arouse the interest of the people. Last June a forestry bill finally passed Congress and set us well on the way toward catching up with forest policies in other countries, where the forests are made to pay a very appreciable annual return. We have needed this legislation for a long time, for we have been using each year two and a half times as much forest produce as the forests are annually producing, and are thus rapidly reducing our forest reserve...
...Weeks proposed and was instrumental in the passing of the Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill, which provides for the purchase by the government of forest lands about the headwaters of navigable rivers in the mountains of Maine and New Hampshire. Considerable difficulty was at first experienced because of some doubt as to the constitutionality of the measure, but this was overcome by the fact that the government is empowered to protect navigable streams...
...Representative from the twelfth Massachusetts district, will speak on "Forestry Legislation and the New White Mountain Bill," in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The bill which Mr. Weeks was instrumental in putting through Congress provides for the purchase by the government of forest lands at the head of navigable rivers in the mountains of Maine and New Hampshire. It is expected that the completion of the project will take five years...
...death of Dr. H.P. Bowditch, like that of Judge Lowell only one week earlier, makes the impression upon those who had known him as of the fall of a great forest tree which all had learned to honor and admire. Scientist or jurist, it is, after all, the moral qualities that count the most, especially when one looks back over the perspective of a long life. If Dr. Bowditch had not had the staunch character that made him so good a cavalry officer in the Civil War, and the patriotism that led him to take up arms in that long...
...encouraging feature is the fact that the lumbermen of Boston have displayed during the past year a keen interest in the school, and have helped financially in obtaining the services of Mr. Cary and Assistant Professor Carter. The increasing interest displayed by lumbermen in matters of conservative forest management was clearly demonstrated not long ago at a banquet arranged by the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Forest School, the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association, and the Lumber Trade Club in behalf of the School, Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt '80 and other noted speakers and about 250 lumbermen were present at this...