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May-June 1978

VOL. #16: No.3

THENEW YORK FOREST OWNERS

ASSOCIATION

April 20, 1978

Dear Forest Owner:

Even though ourassociation was briefI want to express mygratitude at beingable to serve as youreditor. We had a fewtense moments inclu-ding a very largemistake on my partin the last issue. Itseems that I put in aphoto of a man work-ing in the woods who

o was violating almostevery tenet of woodssafety-no hardhat,no gloves, no shin-guards, no gogglesand using the top ofthe guide bar. Thisjust proves that aneditor must be awareof more than columninches.

Actually we gotalong well and I feelthe Forest Ownerhas a great potential.I personally hope tokeep in touch andsubmit articlesoccasionally.

SincerelyJim Briggs

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IN THE MAILBOX ...... letters posted, pilfered

or passed along.

WILLOW WRITERI have been grow-

ing pussy willowscommercially for thelast ten years, buthave been unable tomeet, talk with, orcorrespond with any-one in this unusualendeavor.

I'd appreciate it ifyour magazine wouldassist by publishingthis request forinformation.Joseph P. DermodyElba, NY 14058

ASSOCIATIONOFFICERSPresident

Robert M. SandOdessa, NY 14869

First Vice-PresidentGordon Conklin

RDH2, Trumansburg, NY

2nd Vice-PresidentHoward Ward

240Owego St., Candor, NY

3rd Vice-PresidentRobert EdmondsRDH1, Marathon, NY

Helen VarianMembership

Varian Rd., Peekskill

Lewis DuMondSecretary

Grand St., Cobbleskill

Erniel PalmerTreasurer

S. Salina St., Syracuse

DIRECTORS - 1978Robert Demeree

Kenneth L. EberleyJames P. Lassoie

Fredrick A. UmholtzC. Eugene FarnsworthDavid HanaburghRobert M. Sand

* *DIRECTORS -1979Ronald Baldwin

Gordon L. ConklinRichard C. FassettRobert R. MorrowHardy L. ShirleyEvelyn A. Stock

* *DIRECTORS - 1980Robert Edmonds

Richard LeaBarbara PittengerWilliam S. PowersLloyd G. Strombeck

H.O. WardKenneth Williams

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TREE POWER

A University of Californiachemist is predicting that some-day in the future the UnitedStates will be growing much ofits oil on trees.

* *HUNGRY SOCKSOn a college bulle-

tin board I saw thisMelvin Calvin, a former Nobel sign: "Shoes are re-

Prize winner, ~ays that he has quired to eat in thealready established a one-acre cafeteria"energy plantation" in an arid Underneath some-area of southern California where one had written'petroleum is being produced by "Socks can eat anyplants. where."Calvin says there is a tree

known as "euphorbia lathyrus."that needs relatively little mois- WOOD DEMANDture to survive. It reportedly RISESproduces a latex that can be The national de-converted directly into oil for mand for wood prod-about $20 a barrel. ucts rose by 70 perCalvin adds that there is cent over the past

enough available land in the thirty years and isstate of Arizona alone to produce expected to doubleone-tenth of America's current from present levels byoil needs. - the turn of the

century."The Knot Hole"

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MESSAGE FROMTHE PRESIDENT

Membership in our Association repre-sents different things to each individ-ual. Over the years I have marveled atthe diversity that I have come to knowfrom my one on one acquaintance withmany of you.

Management goals are varied and in -corporate a wide spectrum of interests.It is this variety in our membershipthat has appealed to me personally andI believe it is one of our distinctivestrengths.

Another common bond of significanceis that desire to keep abreast of de-velopments that affect our forest prop-erties. Each meeting, woods walk, andissue of the FOREST OWNER is a vehicleby '"hich useful information is trans-mitted to our members. Many dedicatedindividuals serve this Association andhave done so to insure its success.

I look forward to representing theN.Y.F.O.A. as your President in 1978and appreciate the confidence the Boardof Directors has extended me. I knowit is not an easy job. I am gratefulfor the support that I know will beforthcoming from your elected directors.A great deal of individual talent isgiven freely on our behalf.

As one spokesman for our membership,I want to thank each director for theirwillingness to serve and for the giftof leadership they bring to our organi-zation.

Meaningful input to forest owners iscardinal to our continued growth as anAssociation. Our opportunities aremany. Together we can accomplish muchand enjoy the pleasure of being a NewYork Forest Owner.

The energetic and extremely ableleadership of Gene Farnsworth as imme-diate Past President is gratefully ack-nowledged. His tenure has given out-standing impetus to N.Y.F.O.A. --

Those of uS who have had the oppor-tunity to work alongside him are con-scious of his administrative expertiseand of his unique and human insightthat has been whetted by his many pro-fessional accomplishments.

It has been a privilege and greatpleasure to have been associated withGene during the past year. Our sincerethank you, Gene, for all you have doneto successfully advance our interests.As a re-elected director I look forwardto your continuing contrihutions.

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A FORESTER NEEDS

The dignity of an archbishop,The tact of a diplomat,The experience of a company manager,The geniality of a nobel prize winner,The fast\diousness of a revenue officer,The speech ability of a clergyman,The shrewdness of a l~wyer,The elastic conscience of a politician,The health of an olympic sportsman,The optimism of a shipwreck survivor,The zeal of a missionary,The smile of a movie starAnd the skin of a hippopotamus.

from the Forestry Chronicle

* * *THE FRONT COVER

For 10, the winter is past, the rainis over and gone; the flowers appear onthe earth; the time for singing of birdsis come, and the voice of the turtle isheard in our land.

-Song of Solomon 2:11,12

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New York Forest Owner AssociationAwards for 1978

This year of 1978 the New YorkForest Owners Association is adding an-other feather to its bonnet. In ad-dition to the twelfth Heiberg MemorialAward, the N.Y.F.O.A. is making itsfirst NYFOA Outstanding Service Award.

These awards are symbols of appreci-ation of the accomplishments of those towhom these awards are presented. Theyare designed to enhance the prestige ofthe receiver and the good judgement ofthe giver.

The Awards Committee is appointedby the President of the N.Y.F.O.A. Itreceives and considers the merits ofcandidates for these awards. It makesits selection in accordance with a va-riety of philosophies including magni-tude of service, service obligation,sac-rifice, dedication and quality. Inevi-tably, each proponent of a candidateplaces different weights upon differentphilosophies. This may, and sometimesdoes, cause disappointment with the se-lections of the Awards Committee. Some-times the selections are relatively easy.Sometimes they are a psychologicalbattleground of conflicting pressuresand considerations. Of first importanceis a large number of nominations frominterested parties, regardless of thenumber of candidates or how many timesa candidate is nominated. If a candid-ate loses one year, he or sh~ may winsome other year. You can be assured ofone thing. The candidate selected bythe N.Y.F.O.A. Awards Committee, foreach of these Awards, is the best can-ciidate, in its opinion, to receive theAward for that year.

Mrs. R.S.L. - The brick orstone surrounding a fireplace canbe cleaned of smoke stains byscrubbing with water to which hasbeen added 3 rounded tablespoons-ful of tri-sodium phosphate pergallon. Use a scrubbing brushand wear rubber gloves.4

DR. SVEND HEIBERG is credited withthe initial proposal to establish anAssociation of Forest Landowners inNew York State. Shortly after hisdeath the Board of Directors of NYFOAset up a Committee, under the Chairman-ship of Dorothy Wertheimer, to es-tablish an award in his memory.

At its 20th meeting held in Syr-acuse on November 6, 1965, the NYFOA,Board of Directors heard a report bythe Heiberg Memorial Award Committee.This report was unanimously approved.The First Award was made at theFourth Annual Meeting, held in Syracuse,April 30, 1966 to Hardy L. Shirley,who had worked diligently with SvendHeiberg to establish the New YorkForest Owners Association.

Since that time there have beenten more Heiberg Memorial Awards:

In 1967 to David B. CookIn 1968 to Floyd CarlsonIn 1969 to Mike DemereeDue to disorganization and con-fusion -- no award in 1970In 1971 to Fred Winch, Jr.In 1972 to John StockIn 1973 to Robert M. FordIn 1974 to C. Eugene FarnsworthIn 1975 to Alex DicksonIn 1976 to Edward W. LittlefieIclIn 1977 to Maurice Postley

This will be the twelfth HeibergMemorial Award by the New York ForestOwners Association.

The qualifications for this Awardas established by the Board of Directors,November 6, 1965, are:

"Any person over 18 years of agewiLLI a forest interest in Nelv York Statewho, in the judgement of the Award Com-mittee, has during the preceding year,brought to fruition, who has conceivedand completed a significant project inthe field of conservation, land use,land restoration, forest management orother actions in keeping with the aimsand purposes of the New York ForestOwners Association may be a candidate.

Reference: Forest Owner, Vol. 111,#9December, 1965.

Ralph Nyland Heiberg Award Winner

Ralph D. Nyland was born in 1936 inAlbany, New York. He holds B.S. and M.S.degrees from the College of Environment-al Science and Forestry and a ph.D. de-gree from Michigan State University. Heis presently a Senior Research Associatein the Applied Forestry Research Insti-tute, S.U.N.Y. College of EnvironmentalScience and Forestry.

Although his professional cre~'dentia1s are considerable he has beenselected to receive the Heiberg MemorialAward for an extraordinary job of leader-ship that resulted in the developmentand wide acceptance of the New York Sec-tion, Society of American ForestersTIMBER HARVESTING ;UIDELINES. Theseguidelines have been used as a patternin Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Jersey,and California. Requests for copies andinformation about the Guidelines havebeen received from most states and someforeign countries. They were endorsedby the Empire State Forest Products As-sociation, the New York State ForestPractice Board, the Association for Soiland Water Conservation Districts, theNew York Timber Producers Association andthe New York State Department of Environ-mental Conservation. Many Forest Indus-tries revised their standard timber salescontracts. Companies disttibuted copiesof these guidelines to firms and indi-viduals who supplied roundwood to theirindustries.

There hasn't been so much cooperativeinterest focused on this subject sincethe implementation of the forest practiceact.

For providing the unselfish leader-ship, understanding, tnte11igence andenergy to this project, so beneficial toforest landowners and timber harvesterseverywhere, the New york Forest OwnersAssociation happily conferr~d upon RalphD. Nyland the 1978 Heiberg Memorial Award.

FOR SALE

Vacation Home Site, 2.74 acres, beauti-ful old Pine's, near Loon Lake Beach,attended by life guard, $9,000 convenientterms. -Alfred Najer, Chestertown,New York 12827

New York Forest Owners AssociationAnnounces its First Annual ServiceAward Winner

For the past few years, there hasbeen a growing concern on the part ofthe Board of Directors about recognizingoutstanding service to the New YorkForest Owners Association and its mem-bership. Most of the people who workfor the New York Forest Owners Associ-ation are not even paid expenses. Manymake considerable sacrifices in time,convenience and resources.

In 1977, the N.Y.F.O.A. Board ofDirectors voted to establish a New YorkForest Owners Association OutstandingService Award. Whereas, the HeibergAward is designed to recognize outstand-ing services specifically to the N.Y.F.O.A. Although designed primarily torecognize outstanding service by membersof the N.Y.F.O.A., it could be awardedat the discretion of the awards com-mittee, to a non-member of the N.Y.F.O.A.Candidates for this Award may be sub-mitted by any member of the N.Y.F.O.A.to the Awards Committee. It is antic~pated that that this award will be madeannually at the discretion of the N.Y.F.O.A. Board of Directors.

Although there have been many in-dividuals who have performed outstandingservice to the New York Forest OwnersAssociation, the Awards Committee had nodifficulty in selecting Emie1 Palmer tobe the recipient of the First New YorkForest Owners Association Outstandingservice award. For seventeen years hehas worked actively, di1igentry and per-sistant1y to organize, maintain and im-prove the Association.

He has been the most consistantand reliable contact with the Collegeof Forestry. For the past nine years hehas managed the finances of the Associa-tion. He has contributed to and beeninvolved in the production of the ForestOwner. He has been deeply involved inany Association activities in the vicini-ty of Syracuse. He has conducted WoodsWalks. He has involved his family sig-nificantly in the affairs of the As-sociation. He has been a permanent

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member of the Executive Committee withdominant influence in the areas of fi-nance and budget. Although his contri-butions are too numerous to mention,hereare some items that are a matter ofrecord-- He was interim Director toOrganize the N.Y.F.O.A. in 1962. and hasbeen a Director every year since. Hewas 2nd vice president twice. Chairmanof the fall meeting in 1964 and of the

Annual meeting in 1968. He was appointedtreasurer in 1969 and has been treasurerever since. He has been on the committeefor printing and mailing since 1972.He is on the Education Committee andthe Board of Trust Managers. Last butnot least he and his wife have providedexcellent lunches for the Director'smeetings,that are held in Syracuse,forseveral years.

And so,in token of our appreciationof his outstanding service, The New YorkForest Owners Association in gratefulappreciation presented Emiel Palmer thefirst Outstanding Service Award.

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Forest Improvement in Chemung County

There is one basic fact which istrue throughout much of New York State,particularly in these areas where, inthe past, agriculture was a dominantway of life. Much of the forestedareas were cleared for crops and as ag-riculture became more complicated andland had to be more productive to makeagriculture practical, fields were aban-doned and allowed to revert back towoodlands. There is nothing basicallywrong with this except the fact thatthese farm owners in most instances didnot have the facilities, knowledge, ex-perience, or financial where-with-allto guide them in making this transition.The results are very obvious in ChemungCounty. Many thousands of acres aregrown up in large leaf aspen, red maplehorn-beam etc.

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The sad thing is that this same area,in the rare instances where good forest-ry practices have been adopted, aregrowing a very valuable crop of hard-woods.

This is an economic situation. Thepresent owners, many non-resident, donot have the money to invest in thenecessary equipment to do anything but"let it go".

Probably the most important factoris that even if a single land-ownerhad the financial backing, the invest-ment in necessary equipment would notbe justified.

It is my opinion that if the Federaland/or State governments were seriousabout forest improvement, they couldmake monies available, on a loan basis,so that a practical co-operative, madeup of a few hundred land-owners in ageographic area, could be formed andthey, as a co-operative, could purchasethe necessary equipment, and hire theexpertise to make it feasible to thinout. the cull and weed trees, and thusmake productive forests in their areaof influence. The cuts could, for themost part, be de-barked and chipped.Of course there would be a considerableamount of saleable logs produced, too.

The volume produced would make sell-ing the product a simple matter. Thebenefits in added employment, tax rates,etc. would be Dn important economic fac-tor. And the benefits to our potential-ly valuable forestland would be tremend-ous. This project would cost the govern-ment nothing in dollars and cents, andforest improvement on these lands wouldbe affordable and very rewarding to anyland-owner.

This seems so much more practicalfrom an economic standpoint, than donat-ing a few dollars to a very few peoplefor a questionable improvement of a veryfew acres. The present method of helpingthe land-owner costs the government toomuch for the good accomplished.

Richard C Fassett

New York State Department ofEnvironmental ConservationRegion 7, Land Resources and ForestManagement

Dear Mrs. Stock:

The Division of Land Resourcesand Forest Management has available tothe public a staff of professional for-esters to advise private forest land-owners of the management of the forestlands to include information on treeplanting, harvesting, care of immaturestands, forest road locations and otherforestry information. There are aboutfifty service foresters across thestate who work with private landowners.

As you probably know last Junewe began to charge a minimal fee forour services. We charge $2 an acre formarking miscellaneous round wood prod-ucts including firewood, pulpwood,postspoles, etc. We charge $6 an acre formarking saw timber. We also charge 40¢an acre for preparation of detailed man-agement plans. I am enclosing a bulle-tin describing these services.

The service foresters involvedin administering the technical aspectsof the federal program also do some for-estry work under the Agriculture Conserv-ation Program. These are cost-sharingprograms _ which provide federal fundsto landowners who conduct improved for-est management practices.

A staff of fifty service forestersis available to some 250,000 privateowners across the state. As you can seeour services must be limited. We herein the Cortland district have long re-quest lists and a certain amount ofwaiting time.

This briefly outlines the serviGeavailable from the Forest Resources Dept.If you have any other questions, pleasedo not hesitate to contact me.

SincerelyRobert L. DemereeAssistant Regional Forester

MAPLE DECLINEA study of maple decline by a Univ-

ersity of Massachusetts forestry researchteam in 1976 was done on twenty onemaple stands in Massachusetts. Theyfound that sugar bushes with decline hadlow nitrogen content in the leaves, andthat growth had slowed down considerably.Soil tests showed that there was alsolow available nitrogen in the soil.

In treating some of these maplestands the researchers added nitrogen tothe soil in July. By the following Sept-ember they found that there was a defi-nite response. Twigs increased in lengthby 400% the next season. There was alsoa large increase in radial growth.

Recent studies by teams of workersin Vermont have shown that maple declinecan be caused by several things, includ-ing insect attack, heavy grazing, over-tapping and drought (dry sites). A fi-nal report from the Vermont survey team,headed by E. Bradford Walker, Directorof Forests, Vt. Dept. of Forests, Parks,and Recreation, is expected soon. About15% of Vermont sugar bushes have declineof some kind. However, there appears tobe no general decline agent.

* * *LEAF-FOREST

I found a foresthidden in a leaf,complete with shapesand sounds of birdsand streamsthat wove their musicbeautiful and briefinto the warming woodlandof my dreams.

My thanks to love for teaching methe artof finding the wholethat hidesin every part.

John D. Engle, Jr.

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SAWMILL WASTEBECOMESCLEAN-burningFUEL PELLETSIn a time when supplies offossil fuels are diminish-ing rapidli, the Woodex,Inc., pellet plant inBrownsville, Ore., is pro-ducing a new fuel, madefrom organic fibers, thatmay be better than fuelsthat took natural forcesmillions of years to create.

Woodex pellets havethree important advantagesover conventional fuels.The first is economic:BTUcosts for one million are$1.10 for this fuel. Halfthe price, roughly, ofnatural gas on the WestCoast. Also the pelletsare cleaner-burning thanfossil fuels. Accordingto the National Bureau ofStandards, a pound of pel-lets generates 9000 Btu,like coal, but emits nosulfur, just 0.03 percentnitrogen, and leaves onlytwo percent ash, whereascoal leaves 13 percent.

Pellets can be madefrom almost any fibrousorganic matter. At presentWood ex is converting saw-mill waste-bark, woodchips,and sawdust-but tests ofstraw, peat moss, coconuthusks, and sugarcane fiberprove that pellets couldbe produced worldwide.

Manufacturing the pel-lets is a three-step proc-edure. Raw material isfirst pulverized by a ham-mermill and then blownthrough a dryer. Next, thepowder is forced through aperforat~d steel drum toform pellets. Bound to-gether by natural resins,the pellets are tIt in di-ameter and 3/4 " long.

Institutions using pel-lets report good results.8

Western State Hospital inFt. Steilacoom, Wash.,uses SO tons daily. Theyexpect to save $60,000 inheating costs plus $200,000in air-pollution controlequipment this year. -Gerald Wing

Popular Science Magazine

* * *Mr. Bob Drake423 BreckenridgeBuffalo, New York r42l3

To whom it may concern:

I am writing you inhopes that you could sup-ply me with informationabout the following toaid me in my teaching.

1) wood science2) material Harvesting3) solid wood products4) wood composition prod.5) tree extractive prod.

P.S. A friend of mine isbuilding a 16th centurysailing ship made from sixvirgin white oak trees. Hehas been hacking away atthe project for some eightyears now. The ship willbe called "Sea Lion" afteran elderly millwright whois donating his lumberyardand services.

If all goes well, Chat-auqua Lake will see theonly sailing ship whichresembles the great three-masted, square riggers ourforefathers ventured to thenew world in.

* * *THE WANDERER

In sylvan retreats ofantiquity, a wanderer willoften walkTo listen with reverentattention, and at ~1mes toquietly talk.

Dear Dave:To my thinking -one of

the objectives of the Trustidea should be to attractmore of the 250,000 forestowners of the state tojoin the association. Bypaying a very nominal mem-bership fee they can par-ticipate in a service notoffered - as far as I know-anywhere in the world, i.e.the management of yourforest property - even ifonly average in size whichis about SO acreas. Thisconcept would not interest99% of New York's forestowners. But among the2500 which are 1% theremust be a few hundred thatare attached to their for-est property to want tohold it and manage it toits economic maturitywhich often involves morethan the owner's lifespan;and many would be in aposition to put up fundsfor taxes and other manage-ment costs until the prop-erties become income pro-ducing for the benefit ofdesignated beneficiaries.This would come under theclassification of purposededication land trust. Ishould like to put emph-asis on this phase~ to dis-tinguish the NYFOA fromstrictly ecology conserva~tion slanted institutionssuch as the Nature Con-servancy or similar org-anizations.

Then I would like tostress the fact that tomanage forest properly sothat it reaches economicmaturity would increasethe state's production ofForest Products that arelost by premature cutting.

Could you get this somepublicity.

Fred NajerSarasota, Fla.

FAMOUS TREES

Hippocrates Plane Tree

The story of the Hippocraticplane tree goes back some 2400years, since Hippocrates is be-lieved to have been born in 460B.C. on the Greek island of Cosin the Aegean sea.

In a small compound on theisland, history has it that twotrees flourished, a palm whichshaded an inner garden and anoriental plane tree which grew ina corner of the compound.

This plane tree is similar tothe American sycamore or button-wood.

GATHERED STAFFIt was in the shade of the plane

tree that Hippocrates gathered to-gether his staff and the youngfollowers of Asclepias, the Greekgod of the healing arts.

Under that same plane tree - ona Greek island it spreads beauti-fully and grows as high as 100feet -- were brought patients un-der going treatment in the com~pound.

Hippocrates made his "grandrounds" discussing his new methodswith his students and the ills andtreatments of the patients.

Several cuttings were taken fromthe tree on the island of Cos andpresented by the Greek governmentto the united States for the open-ing of the National Medical Libr-ary at Bethesda, Maryland.

THREE CUTTINGSIn march of 1962, Ralph Ester-

quest, librarian at the HarvardMedical Library, made arrange-ments with the National MedicalLibrary for three spare cuttingsto be turned over to the Arbore-

turn, where they were nurturedcarefully by Doctor Donald Wyman,horticulturist at Harvard Univer-sity's Arnold Arboretum, and hadbecome healthy trees of four toseven feet in height by the endof 1964

A movable container was desi-gned by the new buiiliding'sarch-itects to be placed in the fore-court of the Library's entrance.For several years the Hippocratestrees were stored indoors fromNovember to April until they be-came too large for such tenderloving care. One of them wasplanted permanently with prayersin the fore court and,surprisinglyhas flourished. Its thick inter-estingly shaped trunk now supportsa thirty foot growth which isquite attractive when in full leaf.

HARVARD'SHIPPOCRATIClREE-A cutting from aplane tree believed to be one under which Hippocratestaught in ancient Greece.

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Minutes of theANNUAL MEETINGNEW YORK FOREST OWNERS ASSOCIATIONCharlton Hall, S.U.N.Y.Morrisville, New YorkApril 8. 1978

C. Eugene Farnsworth, President presided.

The meeting was opened by First VicePresident, Robert Sand, who introducedAssociate Professor Richard L. Kapral,Program Staff Chairman of NaturalResources Conservation program at SUNYMorrisville. Professor Kapral welcomedthe group to Morrisville.

Professor Farnsworth announced the new-ly elected directors who are to servefor a term of three years. They are asfollows:

Robert DemereeKenneth L. EberleyJames P. LassoieFrederick A. UmholtzEugene FarnsworthDavid HanaburghRober t M. Sand

The amended by-laws which had been pre-pared under the supervision cifRobertSand, were approved after a motion hadbeen duly made and seconded.

A motion to amend the by-la~s under"Membersh~p - Section 4 - was made byEmiel Palmer, Seconded by Kenneth Eberley,adding that a paid-up member may sponsora new memher for one year by paying agift membership fee of $5.00 for such anew member. This was passed.

The treasurer's report was given byEmiel Palmer showing an income for 1977of $3975.52, and expenses of $4791.98The balance on hand at the end of theyear was $3775.21. This report isavailahle.

The report of the "Forest Owner" commit--tee was given by Evelyn Stock who askedthe group to tell her what is wanted inthe publication.

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Kenneth Eberley reported that the pres-ent membership is 570.

President Farnsworth gave a report fromKen Willi0ms of the legislative commit-tee stating that there is a hill to cre-ate a Fish and Wildlife commission sep-arating it from the Environmental Con -servation Department.

Meeting adjourned.

Respec tfullyJ. Lewi s DumondSecretary.

* * *Minutes of the l05th Board MeetingNEW YORK FOREST OWHERS ASSOCIATIONCharlton Hall, SUNY, Morrisville,New YorkAp ri I 8, 1978

C. Eugene F~rnsworth, President, presided.

The following were present:

Eugene Farns~orthJ. Lewis DuMondRobert Mo SandDavid H. HanaburghEmiel PalmerHelen VarianEvelyn StockKenneth L. Eberley

Will iam S. PowersGordon L. ConklinFrederick UmholtzJames LassoieHoward WardHardy L. ShirleyBarbara Pittenger

Upon motion of Hanaburgh, seconded byPowers the proposed list of officers wasunanimo~sly electe~.

PresiClent Robert M. SandLs tV. President Gordon Conklin2nd V. President Howard Ward3rd V. President Robert EdmundsMambership Secre ..Helen VarianSecretary Lewis DuMondTreasurer Emiel Palmer

'P'-esidentFarnsworth reported that theForestry Workshop held in Rochester onApril 1, 'vas very successful wi th 150attending. This was conducted in coop-

cont'd from page 10eration with the Department of Environ-mental Conservation, the Forest PractlceBOArd ~nd the Cooperative Extension.

The problems in connection with the"Forest Owner loJeredi scussed. Much ofthe difficulty due to problems inliason and communication with theedi tor at Lake Pleasant. It l,Jasdecided that Evelyn Stock should act aseditor.

acre forest, operated by HarvardUniversity for research and demon-stration of forestry in the moun-tainous Hudson Highlands, has truemUltiple use. The Forest has along history of forest managementand research in a most scenicarea. West Point is a neighbor.

Jack Karnig, the Forest Manager ,has agreed to host the WALK. Wewill meet at the Cornwall TownHall parking area at 10 a.m.asthe entrance to the forest isdifficult to find. Bring yourown lunch and beverages will beavailable.

Respectfully submittedJ. Lewis DuMond, Secretary

WOODS WALKS 1978

Five WOODS WALKS are plannedfor this Summer and Fall. In thisway we hope there will be one inyour area.

Please send a stamped,addressed,envelope with your r.1s.v.p. anahe will send you a map of thearea. Send to Mr. J. Karnig,Harvard Black Rock Forest, P.O.Box 483, Cornwall, 12518, N.Y.Please write WOODS WALK on env-elope.

July 22nd, Saturday, is the timeset for our first WOODS WALK. Itwill be at the Harvard Black RockForest, Cornwall, NY. This 3600 Other WALKS-details next issue.

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(Please send to:)

Mrs. Helen Varian, Membership Secretary204 Varian Rd., Peekskill, N.Y. 10566

I would like to help advance forestry in New York State.I enclose my check payable to the New York ForestOwners Association, Inc.

I own . acres forest land in _County, N.Y.I do not own forest land but I support Associa-tion's objectives.

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