Hoo Hoo Forest Committee Reports

A very interesting and important meeting of the Los Angeles Lumbermen's Hoo-Hoo Club was held on Thursday,'' September 3,1925.

The general subject of the meeting-after the initiation of the new officers was held-was to consider reports of the club's special committee on forestry. The report indicated the committee had been busy and had been considering some,very vital matters connected with the industry itself, and vital also to the continued prosperity of Southern California.

The forestry committee outlined its own functions and conceived that it was its duty to aid in every way possible in all efforts tending toward lonservation of -our forests and water sheds; should co-operate in all movements of other bodies looking in this direction and should assist in educating the people to a proper appreciation of the menace of fires in lost timber and in destruction of watersheds: and should in a general way assist all movements looking toward the most efficient conservation of all natural resources.

The recommendations of the committee were unanimous-. ly adqpted by the club after being fully presented on behalf of the committee by Mr. David Woodhead, its chairman, and the following resolutions were unanimously carried: FAVOR THE FEDERAL APPROPRTATION OF $1,OOO,OOO FOR REFORESTATION AND PROTECTION OF NATIONAL FOREST RESERVES OF SANTA BARBARA, LOS ANGELES AND SAN BERNARDINO lv{OUNTAINS.

"We heartily indorse the suggestion of the Forestry DeUSE partment of the Federal government to set aside the sum of $1,000,000, available in such amounts and at such times as like appropriations may be made by the county governments of Southern California, to be expended in reforestation and shrubbage, to repair the ravages of forest fires in recent years which have denuded a very large acreage of the National Watersheds in the Federal Forest Reserves, upon which Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Valencia and Orange counties are dependent for water supply. Water is life for this section in increasing measure; and every step to insure the prevention of run-ofi water passing to the sea without benefiting either agriculture or commerce should be taken. In view of this fact, and also that a part of the necessary playground of our immense population and our visitors is also seriously injured by this gondition, it impels us to urge the appropriation of $1,000,000 this year by Los Angeles county in order that work may be at once begun to repair the fire ravages so as to give us an entirely afforested area for water condensation and conservation."

Club Favors Proposed Bill For Tax Exemption Of Growing Trees

Another resolution passed by the club unanimously refers to the bill now on referendum, which will come before the people for approval or rejection at the next election, and which provides that forestry holdings in California lvhere trees have been planted that require long years for ripening, shall not be taxed until ready for logging. The resolution reads as follows:

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