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CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1909 oaruen. 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT Frontispiece 



HOME BUILDING FOR THE NATION— By Gifford Pinchot 521 



PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO MR. GIFFORD 

 PINCHOT 526 



THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION SITUATION— By Frederick Haynes Newell 527 



NOTES ON SOME FOREIGN FORESTS— By Chas. E. Bessey 533 



THE ABANDONED FARM— By J. Oliver Smith 539 



ATTITUDE OF THE ADMINISTRATION TOWARD THE RECLAMATION OF 

 THE ARID LANDS OF THE WEST— By Richard A. Ballinger 544 



ADMINISTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE— By George C Pardee. 548 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT: DYNAMIC GEOGRAPHER (Continued)— By Frank 



Buffington Vrooman 550 



THE EQUALIZING INFLUENCE OF FORESTS ON THE FLOW OF STREAMS 

 AND THEIR VALUE AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING NAVIGATION (Con- 

 cluded) — By Geo. F. Swain, LL.D 557 



THE INTERESTS VERSUS THE PEOPLE— By Thomas Elmer Will 563 



EDITORIAL— 



Resolutions by the National Irrigation Congress.. 572 



Bond Issue Advocated 572 



Indorsement of the Forest and Reclamation 



Services 572 



Ten Million Dollars Annuall.v for Irrigation 572 



Government Drainage 57:; 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Resolutions 57ft 



Roosevelt Policies Concerned 580 



Roosevelt Policies at Stalje 5Sn 



A National Issue Shaping 581 



The Lawyer and the Man of Science 581 



Director Newell and His Enemies 581 



No Explanation 582 



To Can Pinchot 582 



Pinchot vs. Ballinger 5S2 



Pinchot and Newell Commended 5S2 



Pinchotism and the Power Trust 583 



The Water-power Trust 58.'^ 



Regulation of Timber Cutting 573 



Still Other Resolutions 574 



What Is the "Poor Man's Proposition 7" 574 



The Water-power Trust 57.i 



Sacrificing the Indian Forests 577 



The Case of Congressman Tawney 57n 



Mr. Pinchot's Fight 583 



Too Serious to Be Ignored 584 



Pinchot's Object Right 584 



Congress Should Investigate 584 



Tlie Law and the Spirit ,"i8-' 



Waterways Commission in Berlin 5S5 



Conservation Congress in Seattle 58.") 



The Forest Conference 5S."> 



A Field Meeting of the Vermont Forestry Asso- 



sociation 586 



Disastrous Fire in Maine Forest 58ti 



BACK NUMBERS WANTED 586 



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