American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



editorial advisory board 

 Herman H. Chapman Frederic S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N.' Spring 



December CONTENTS 1911 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles Cartwnght. 



BUILDING THE WORLD'S HIGHEST DAMS— By C. J. Blanchard 701 



With four illustrations. 



STUDIES FOR REFORESTATIOX— By A. G. Haniel 706 



With four illustrations. 



LOGGING ON A NATIONAL FOREST— By Sidney L. Moore 713 



With eight illustrations. 



PENN STATE COLLEGE OUTLINES A NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE 



IN FORESTRY— By Prof. H- P. Baker 71fl 



With five illustrations. 



SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND THE LUMBER INDUSTRY— By Prof. R. C. 



Bryant 724 



DISPOSAL OF FIRE-KILLED TIMBER ON THE SOPRIS NATIONAL FOR- 

 EST— By John McLaren 7:!1 



\'ERMOXT SUMMER SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND HORTICULTURE— By 



R. A. Chandler - 735 



With four illustrations. 



PENAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSERVATION— By F. A. Gaylord 741 



STATE FORESTRY— ITS RELATION TO CONSERVATION 743 



COMMERCIAL REFOREST.ATION 747 



EDITORIAL COMMENT 752 



CURRENT LITERATURE— Monthly List for November, 1911 753 



RECENT FOREST SERVICE PUBLICATIONS— 



Value of Windbreaks 756 Over-Grazing Brings Floods 757 



The Substitution of Colombian Mahogany _ History o. the Pines 757 



for True Mahogany 756 



STATE WORK— 



Fire Protection 758 F.ncouraging Free Planting 759 



Enforcing the Law 758 A Big Project 750 



Idaho Experimental Stations 759 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Lecture by Governor Bass 760 Municipal Forestry 762 



Excellent Fire Control 760 A Correction 762 



European Conservation 761 



AMERICAN FORESTRY Is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 



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



Entered as second-class mall matter December 24. I!i09, at the Post-ottlce at Washington, 



under the Act of March 3, 1879 7t 



