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Keynote speaker for the conference, which drew 500 professional foresters and industry leaders from the western United States and Canada, was Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay. The development of a sound water program for the West, he said, has the full backing of the Eisenhower administration, which considered the development of ivater resources so important that a cabinet committee on rvater resources policy will report its findings early this year.

California's Governor Goodwin J. Knight said cooperation was an important factor in the success of his state's forestry programs. He pointed out that California was the first state to establish a state forestry program, a program in .ivhich thousands n61a' participate. Two million acres of I privately ou'ned forests on which Tree Farms insure a "spring that never runs dry," he said, "help maintain California's standing as the second largest lumber producing state in the ljnion."

Speaking for the entire West, Stuart Moir, forest counsel for the conference, said the volume of timber cut from its forests has increased 40% in the past decade. This volume can be maintained, he assured delegates, if all private and public agencies cooperate to insure maximum forest yield.

An afternoon meeting of directors of Keep Green forest fire prevention programs in the western states u'as held in connection rvith the Forestry Conference. Keep Green publicity, along rvith favorable u,eather and vigilancebrought about a "sizable decrease in forest fires" in the \\resi in 1954. Compared to the year before, there were a little over half as many fires in the western states and British Columbia. At the same time, timber acreage destroyed by fires decreased a third.

Some 25 resolutions pertaining to timber manag'ement, fire and pest prevention, and urging access roads into fed-