



CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1909 



COVER DESIGN— B}' Charles E. Cartwright. 



MOUTEI OF THE ]\IIAMI RIVER Frontispiece 



THE EVERGLADES OF FLORIDA AND THE LANDES OF FRANCE— By 



Dr. John Gifford 45 ^ 



OPENLNG OF THE COEUR D'ALENE RESERVATION 464 



INFLUENCE OF TAXATION ON FOREST DISTRIBUTION— By E. M. Hoover.. 460 



STATE FOREST POLICY— By Herman Haupt Chapman 47.3 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DYNA^IIC GEOGRAPHER— By Frank Bnffington 

 Vrooman 48,5 



THE EQUALIZING INFLUENCE OF FORESTS ON THE FLOW OF STREAMS 

 AND THEIR VALUE AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING NAVIGATION— By 

 George F. Swain, LL.D 489 



A CHAPTER OF CONSERVATION HISTORY— By Thomas Fhiier Will 495 



EDITORIAL— 



The Mill Tax for Fr>re.«tr.v 498 



Legislative Support for Student Lalior 498 



Tlie Washington Forest-fire Association 498 



The Destruction of Fish 499 



Conservation of Soil Re.sonrces 499 



Dry-land Farming 500 



Tlie Riot of tlie Rivers 501 



Building a Nation 502 



The Conservation of Unman Resources 5n"i 



Whore Is Conservation to Stop? 5(14 



Governor Fernald's Proposal 505 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Canadian Forestry Association Meeting 



To Protect New Hampshire Forests from Fire.. 



A State Forester 



England's Progressive Polie.v 



Women Saving the P.ig Trees 



Fall River to Acquire Woodlands 



New Forest Assistants and Their Work 



Berlin Spends .?10.000.0nn to Buy a Forest.... 



Heliographs to Be Used on National Forests 



Biltmore School to Germany 



Forestry in Antiocli College 



Forestry Depiirtnient of the T'niversity of New 



Brunswick 



Legislation in Minnesota 



Minnesota Ont of Conservation Plans 



Railroads for Conservation 



High Water in tlie Missouri Valley 



America's Greatness 



50ti Conservation of Water Power and Public Land.. 512 



50(j Irrigation Desired for Eastern States 5r_' 



50(1 Progress in Reclamation Work 5111 



507 Five Billions for Development "il-! 



507 Five Billions for Irrigation 51 t 



507 Bond Issues for River Improvements 51-t 



508 The River a.s a Carrier 515 



508 Tlie Lesson of the "Soo" 515 



508 Mt. Pocono Meeting of Penns.vlvania Forestry 



.508 As.sociation 51 li 



500 Forest Conference in tlie White Mountains 51(: 



Forestry Legislation in Penns.vlvania 51G 



509 Progress in New Hampshire 517 



.509 What a State Might Do .51 7 



510 America's Awful Fire Losses 51 8 



510 The Drath of Colonel Fox 5is 



511 Austin Car.v Suceeed.s Colonel Fox 51 S 



511 The National Irrigation Congress .MS 



BACK NUMBERS WANTED 51S 



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