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CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1909 



COMMISSIONERS TO NORTH AMERICAN CONSERVATION CONFERENCE 



Frontispiece 

 JAMES WILSON, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE— By Thomas Elmer Will.... 125 



THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY— By Frederick Haynes Newell 134 



THEMANGYANES: A PROBLEM OF FOREST PROTECTION 



By Melvin L. Merritt 139 



THE CONQUEST OF THE COLORADO-By C. J. Blanchard 143 



EARLY CUTTINGS IN THE LODGEPOLE PINE TYPE OF THE ROCKY 



MOUNTAINS— By E. R. Hodson 148 



TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ASSOCIATION— Cowc/M^^d 



Forest Taxation 152 



Profit in Forests 154 



A Free Hand 155 



Flood versus Drought 155 



Women as Workers 15C 



Iloport of Committee on Nominations 156 



PUBLISHERS' NOTICE 158 



WANTED: BACK NUMBERS 158 



THE NORTH AMERICAN CONSERVATION CONFERENCE 



By Treadwell Cleveland, Jr 159 



DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES 164 



EDITORIAL— 



Plant Tiees 169 



The President Attacks the Water-Power Mo- 

 nopoly 170 



Why Governments Should Act 171 



Funds for Conservation 172 



r^orestry and Dry Farming 173 



Forestry and Unemployment 174 



APPALACHIAN LEGISLATION KILLED i7S 



THE ATTITUDE OF THE WEST TOWARD THE EASTERN FORESTS 176 



CALAVERAS BIG TREES SAVED 177 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Floods in the Congo 178 



The Railroad Must Pay Fire Damages 17S 



The Joint Committee on Cooperation 178 



State Control of Forest Fires 178 



Secretary Wilson to Continue in the Cabinet... 17S 



To Prevent Fraud on the Public Domain 178 



To Conserve Historic Data 179 



Rivers and Harbors Bill 179 



Waste of Michigan Lands 179 



For Healthy Fruit Trees 179 



Waterways Treaty Between U. S. and Great 



Britain 180 



State and Local Receipts from National Forests 180 



Yale Forest School 180 



Railroads Seeking Tie Supply 181 



Mahogany Among Hardwoods 181 



Woodpeckers Destro.y Poles 182 



Tree Planting in Kansas 182 



Goats Improving Forests 182 



American and German Forests 182 



Wood Preservation in Louisiana 183 



Use cf National Forest Resources 183 



Irrigation Scheme In Spokane 183 



Dams and Floods 18? 



Irrigation in Okanogan County ISA 



The Twin Falls Irrigation Project 184 



Bleeding Southern Pines 184 



A Farm Raising Timber 184 



Asparagus Under Irrigation 184 



Forest Protection and Management 184 



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at Washington. D. C, under the Act of March 3, 1879 



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