American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



EDWIN A. START, Editor 

 editorial ad visor y board 

 Herman H. Chapman Frederic S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



October CONTENTS 1911 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles Cartwright. 



DOUGLAS FIR IN OREGON Frontispiece 



FIRE PROTECTION IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS— By Earle H. Clapp 573 



Six illustrations from U. S. Forest Service photographs. 



WHAT OREGON IS DOING TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES— By C. S. Chapman 584 



One illustration (frontispiece). 



UTILIZING TROOPS IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS— By George M. Cornwall 587 



BASKET WILLOW CULTURE IN MARYLAND— By C. D. Mell 590 



Three illustrations. 



UNDER MINNESOTA'S NEW FOREST LAW— By W. T. Cox 593 



PROGRESS OP FORESTRY IN WISCONSIN— By Frank B. Moody 595 



HOW ONE NATIONAL FOREST IS PROTECTED— By D. N. Rogers 599 



SUMMER MEETING OF EASTERN STATES FORESTERS- By Hugh P. Baker 601 



Nine illustrations from photographs by the author. 



STREET TREES— By J. J. Levison 611 



EDITORIAL— 



The Forest Fire Season 616 Federal Troops and Forest Fires 618 



New England's Hope Deferred 616 Maine's Exhausted Fire Fund 618 



EDUCATION— 



Yale's New Professorship of Lumbering 620 University of Vermont 624 



Michigan Agricultural College Forestry Sum- Iowa State College 624 



mer Term 621 New York State Forest School 624 



NATIONAL FOREST WORK— 



An Official Account of the San Bernardino A Government Timber Sale 627 



Fire 625 The Use of Odd Lengths 629 



CURRENT LITERATURE— 



Reviews: T^LyXoT, Scientific Management 629 Monthly List for September 630 



Bartlett, The Better Country 629 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Lost River in New Hampshire 63S The Southern Pine Beetle 683 



AMERICAN FORESTRY Is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 



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Indexes lor Vol. XVI (1910) are ready and may be had on application 



Entered as second-class mall matter December 24. 1S09, at the I'ost-otfloe at Washington. 



under the Act of March 3, 1879 It 



