. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. JO THE CANADA LUMBERMAN November, 1905 FORESTRY DEPARTMENT MICHIGAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. The Michigan Forestry Association was re- cently organized at a convention at Grand Rapids. The officers chosen w ere as follows : John H. Bissell, Detroit, president; Thornton A. Green, Ontonagon, vice-president; T. M. Sawyer, Ludington, secretary, and John J. Hubbell, Mainstee, treasurer. The Board of Directors for one year includes: Mrs. Louisa A. King, Alma; Hon. C. J. M
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. JO THE CANADA LUMBERMAN November, 1905 FORESTRY DEPARTMENT MICHIGAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. The Michigan Forestry Association was re- cently organized at a convention at Grand Rapids. The officers chosen w ere as follows : John H. Bissell, Detroit, president; Thornton A. Green, Ontonagon, vice-president; T. M. Sawyer, Ludington, secretary, and John J. Hubbell, Mainstee, treasurer. The Board of Directors for one year includes: Mrs. Louisa A. King, Alma; Hon. C. J. Monroe, South Haven ; Dr. L. L. Hubbard, Houghton ; Wal- ter C. Winchester, Grand Rapids; H. N. Loud, Au Sable ; Hon. Geo. B. Horton, Fruit Ridge. With the election of these able offi- cers and directors, the Michigan Forestry Association becomes a fact and not a theory. Probably no movement in the state has brought out a more generous response than this project. Hon. Arthur Hill, a member of the commission, has visited Europe for the purpose of studying forestry conditions there, and refuses to use any of the state appro- priation for his expenses. More time and thought has been given to this work than the promoters will ever admit. The convention was presided over by the Hon. Arthur Hill of Saginaw, Thornton A. Green, the prominent lumberman of Ontona- gon, while Prof. Roth, of Ann Arbor, state forest warden, and Hon. Chas. W. Garfield of Grand Rapids, president of the Michigan Forestry Commission, were active spirits. The convention was held at the Park church, the entrance and interior of which were appropriately decorated by the liberal use of the state forestry exhibit used at the St. Louis fair, now a part of the Kent museum at Grand Rapids. The room was hung with placards bearing pertinent inscriptions, among which were: "It takes thirty years to grow a tree, and thirty minutes to cut it down and destroy it.'' "A country without wood is a house without a
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