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CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1909 



THE THREE SISTERS Frontispiece 



WORK ON A NATIONAL FOREST— No. lo— By Charles Howard Shinn 187 



ETHICS OF THE FOREST— By Alexandre Erixon 197 



IN THE GIANT FOREST OF THE SIERRAS— Pot'»j—By Alexander Blair Thaw. ... 202 



THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE IRRIGATED DISTRICTS— By G. E. Browne. . 203 



FOREST PRESERVATION AND ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT OF WATER 



POWER— By Allen Hollis 21.4 



THE CONSERVATION OF WORLD RESOURCES— By Treadwell Cleveland, Jr 218 



A WORD FROM MRS. WILLIAiAIS 222 



THE "DISMAL SCIENCE" DECADENT— By Thomas Elmer Will 223 



CHESTNUT TIMBER GOING TO WASTE— By Robert T. Morris 226 



ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS OF THE A. F. A 227 



THE FIRST TREE— Po(7;«— By Hazel Alma Banks Pierce 229 



EDITORIAL— 



Defeat of Appalachian Legislation — A National The North American Conservation Conference.. 234 



Loss 230 Conservation of the Resources of the Planet . . . 235 



Do They Represent the West? 231 Private "Rights" in Public Lands 237 



The Forest Service in Congress 232 The Fight Just Begun 238 



Public Advantage from Reclamation 233 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Wisconsin Gets Forest Laboratory 239 



Roads for National Forests 239 



English Forest and Land Policy 239 



A German on International Conservation 240 



Kansas Catalpas Pay 240 



Draining the Everglades 241 



Opening of the Payette-Boise Project 241 



Progress on the Uncompahgre Project 241 



Lands Restored to the Public Domain 241 



Mrs. Fairbanks for Conservation 242 



Regulations Applying to Government Irrigated 



Lands 242 



What a Timber Patch Can Do 



Forest Conservation in Hawaii 



War on the Prairie Dog 



Timber Supply of United States 



Effect of Deforestation 



Improved Methods of Turpentining Bring Favor 



able Results 



China Begins Education in Forestry 



Children Plant Trees 



Utilizing Natural Gas 



Increased Need for Private Forestry.... 



Condition of Forest Resources 



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INDEX FOR CONSERVATION FOR 1908 - 248 



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