science · 25 April 1882 · 142 years ago
In 1882, the first national U.S. forestry society, held the American Forestry Congress at the Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the five-day event, which was visited by Ohio Governor Foster and ex-President Hayes, papers were presented, memorial trees were planted, and, as reported by the New York Times, “a resolution was adopted that it was the judgment of the Forestry Congress that the Congress of the United States should take steps to establish at State and national institutions experimental forestry stations.” Franklin B. Hough (who in 1881 had been appointed the first chief of the Division of Forestry, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture) delivered an address titled “Forestry of the Future,” in which he presented a detailed economic justification for a national policy of reforestation.
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