American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



EDWIN A. START, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



LIBR APY 

 Herman H. Chapman Frederic S. Underbill ■vr»>v 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes NEW YORK 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring BOTANICAL 



November CONTENTS 1911 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles Cartwright. 



A FIRE PROTECTION PLAN IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS— 



By W. H. Weber 637 



With eight illustrations from the author's photographs. 



REFORESTATION ON THE PIKE NATIONAL FOREST— By C. W. Fitzgerald 646 



With five illustrations from the author's photographs. 



FIRE PROTECTION IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS— By Earle H. Clapp 652 



Concluded from the October number. 



THE MINNESOTA FOREST EXPERIMENT STATION— By Dillon P. Tierney... 657 

 With six illustrations from the author's photographs. 



THE WATER OAK AS A SHADE TREE— By C. D. Mell 663 



With one illustration. 



COOPERATION IN FOREST PROTECTION— By E. T. Allen 665 



TIMBERLAND PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIONS— By E. A. Sterling 667 



FOREST SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES, VI. UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA. . 673 

 With four illustrations. 



COLLECTING LODGEPOLE PINE SEED— By A. M. Cook 674 



FOREST SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES, VII. BILTMORE FOREST SCHOOL 679 

 With four illustrations. 



editorial- 

 Two Conventions 681 An Essential Difference 684 



A Silence Broken 682 A Personal Word 681 



Europe and America — .\ Comparison 683 



NATIONAL FOREST WORK— 



Relief for Homesteaders 685 The Appalachian National Forests 685 



CURRENT LITERATURE— 



Reviews : Forbes Development of British Forestry 686 



Van Schaack, Woodworking Safeguards 687 



Lambeth, Trees and How to Know Them 687 



Apgar, Ornamental Shrubs 687 



The Forests of the Philippines 687 



Monthly List for October 688 



EDUCATION— 



Ranger Course at Colorado School of For- The University of Missouri 691 * 



estry 691 Harvard Forest School 692 



STATE WORK— 



The Chestnut Bark Disease 693 New Hampshire 694 



Massachusetts 694 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



The Third National Conservation Congress . . 695 Banana Stalks for Paper Pulp 697 



North Carolina Forestry Association 696 No Supply Exhaustless 698 



A New American Arboretum 696 Kennebec Valley Protective Association , 



Ne\v England Farmer as a Source of Supply 697 



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 Post-oflloe at Washington, 



under the Act of March 3. 1879 It 



