Report of the Wisconsin special legislative committee on forestry of the Senate and Assembly; . es of Forest, Iron, Oneida,Price and \ilas, plan a trip and accompany theparty, but this was refused, they stating that thetrip should be made at a later date. In the latter part of July the Chairman of thisForestry Committee wrote to the Secretary of theabove mentioned Executive Committee asking thatthey fix a date or dates for the Committee to makeanother tour of inspection in their company andunder their guidance, but no reply was had to thisletter. On July 23, 1914, the following members of theC


Report of the Wisconsin special legislative committee on forestry of the Senate and Assembly; . es of Forest, Iron, Oneida,Price and \ilas, plan a trip and accompany theparty, but this was refused, they stating that thetrip should be made at a later date. In the latter part of July the Chairman of thisForestry Committee wrote to the Secretary of theabove mentioned Executive Committee asking thatthey fix a date or dates for the Committee to makeanother tour of inspection in their company andunder their guidance, but no reply was had to thisletter. On July 23, 1914, the following members of theCommittee met at Buffalo, N. Y.; Senators: Tomkins, and H. A. Huber; Assemblymen:R. J. Nye, E. J. Kneen, and H. M. Laursen for thepurpose of making a tour of inspection of the forestreserves of Pennsylvania, NeW York and Connecti-cut and with the further idea of visiting as manyprivate plantings of white and norway pine as couldbe conveniently reached and of seeing as much aspossible of the natural reproduction of these twospecie where they had been protected from fire REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 17 On the afternoon of the 24th the members weremet at Galeton, Potter County, Pa., by Hon. RobertS. Conklin, Hon. I. C. Williams, Hon. Simon , and Hon. J. Linn Harris, of the State For-estry Conservation Commission, together with severalother foresters and parties interested in forestry were made to the State Nursery, at Asaph inTioga county, plantings of trees about Cross Fork inPotter county, and an inspection made of theirranger cabins, telephone lines, roads, and lire linesin what is known as the Stewardson Township dis-trict. Every courtesy possible was extended by and the other gentlemen of Pennsylvaniaand much valuable information received as to thepractical work in forestry and an ample opportunitygiven to compare the work of the Pennsylvania for-estry department with that of our own State. On July 27 the party wa


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