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AMEMBSi^M F®miSSTlF^Y Al^®aATD®M 



NEW YORK 



CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1909 



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COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



HON. CURTIS GUILD, JR., President American Forestry Association Froni.spiece 



THE FIGHT FOR THE APPALACHIAN FORESTS— By Edwin A. Start 251 



PROCLAMATION CONCERNING CUTTING 01> TniBER, ETC.— By William Penn 261 



WATER CIRCULATION AND ITS CONTROL— liy Bailey Willis 262 



PRACTICABILl'lY OF STATE FORESTS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN 



STATES— By W. W. Ashe 275 



WHAT FOREST CONSERVATION MEANS— By R. S. Kellogg, Assistant Forester, 



Forest Service 283 



AIMLESS TREE SLAUGHTER— By M. E. Baker 286 



A LITTLE ABOUT ENGLAND'S TREES— By Anne Warner 287 



A TREE LOVER— By Mrs. R. A. Ellis 289 



FORESTRY MAIDENS— /'or;;;— By Sarah E. Knhn 290 



EDITORIAL— 



The I.es>S()ii Tiiujilit li.v Cliiiia 291 



How It Is Done 292 



"Develoiiing" Our Resources 2i(4 



The Corauiunit.v Must Care for Itself 295 



Biltinore Forest Fire 296 



XIAVS AND NOTES— 



Engineers Moot 301 



A Forest Congress in Chicago 301 



For Appnlacliian Bill Next Session 301 



What Children Can Do for a Cause 301 



What the American Civic Association Does.... 301 



Work on the Coast 3X11 



•Maine Commission Reports Log Rules 302 



Development in Colorado ,'{02 



Alabama's Resources .302 



President Van Hise for Conservation 30:'. 



Counties Committee Meeting 30.". 



Missouri's Forests 303 



Massachusetts Women for Conservation 30.". 



The Xational Irrigation Congress 304 



Irrigation Congress Wanted in the Soutli .304 



Cabinet Members Invited 30,-i 



Forest .Service to Be Represented 30."> 



Encouragement from Montana's fJovernor 30."i 



Utah Again in Line .30(; 



Meeting of Mechanical Engineers 30ii 



Deep Waterwa.vs Meeting at Toronto 30(i 



Iowa's Waterwa.vs Commission 30'i 



.\ Xew Southern Waterwa.v 30ij 



I'rivate Interests Protecting against Fire 29(j 



Far-away Forestr.v 297 



Forest Ta.xation Again 29S 



A Tree as a Landowner 299 



President Taft for Conservation 299 



To Stop Water Waste 307 



Farms under Water 307 



Tlie Government Retains Title to Coal Lands... 307 



Timber Consumption in United States ■'{•17 



Tree Planting to Transform the Prairie SOS 



Progress in Conservation 308 



Engineers for Conservation 309 



Conservation In Rhode Island 309 



World ( onservation 310 



Stopping Waste 310 



Government Buys Steam Dredge 310 



Progress at Belle Fourche 310 



The Klamath Project 311 



Scrub Pine for Pulp Material 311 



\\'o(id Preservation Means Forest Conservation.. 312 



An Important Tree Family 312 



Naval Stores Production 312 



fjovernment Helps Grazing 313 



Soutli Dakota Preserves Wood 313 



Mexico's Supply of Longleaf Pine 313 



Wliy Wood Decays 313 



Damage by Bark Beetles in Northwest 314 



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