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CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1909 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



OPENING OF THE SEVENTEENTH NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS 



AT SPOKANE, WASH., AUGUST 9, 1909 Frontispiecr 



SEVENTEENTH NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS 589 



THE GUNNISON TUNNEL 595 



DESTRUCTION OF THE NORTHERN FORESTS. AND ITS EFFECT ON 



THE FUTURE OF THE CENTRAL STATES— By Alexandre Erixon 599 



SONG OF THE OAK (Form)— By H. F. Chorley 60s 



THE FOREST CONFERENCE IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS— By Philip 



W. Ayres 6o<S 



A BEGINNER IN FORESTRY (Paper F)— By Anne Warner 610 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT: DYNAMIC GEOGRAPHER (Continued)— By Frank 



Buffington Vrooman 612 



CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLIC LANDS— By George Otis Smith 619 



THE WOODS (Poem)— By Dryclen 622 



WORK ON A NATIONAL FOREST: EX-RANGERS (No. /^)— By Charles 



Howard Shinn 623 



THE FARM COMMUNITY— By Liberty Hyde Bailey 627 



EDITORIAL— 



The President's Letter 631 



McHarg as an Index 633 



Putting Two and Two Together 634 



A Question of Ethics anil Construction 635 



Construction — Strict To-day and Free To-morrow 636 



Legal Last Year, But Not This 636 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



The Denver and Seattle Meetings 642 



Maine's Water-power Commission 642 



Water-power Investigation in Wisconsin 642 



Forestry Instruction in Columbia 642 



The Woman's National Rivers and Harbors 



Congress 642 



Louisiana Forestry Association 642 



Good Roads 642 



Wise Conservation Legislation in Wisconsin.... 643 



S. M. Higgins, Supervisor of Michigan Forest.. 643 



State Forester of Connecticut 643 



Black Butte Mountain Fir Forest 643 



Oregon Caves National Monument 643 



Club Women for Conservation 643 



Year-book of the New Hampshire Society 643 



Increase in Flood Damage 644 



Problems of the Waterwavs fi44 



The Dry-farming Congress 644 



Work of Reforesting Islands 644 



Gunnison-Uncompahgre Lands Taken 644 



An Ideal Pumping Device 644 



Conserving Human Resources 645 



Bad Forest Fires 645 



Gla vis to Publish Facts 645 



The West in Earnest 645 



The Future of Man in America 645 



On the "Dynamic Geographer" 646 



Alaska as a Prize 646 



McHarg for Exploitation 647 



Results Wanted 647 



The Cooperative Certificates "Illegal" 637 



Where the West Lags 638 



The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways Con- 

 vention 630 



The National Conservation Association 640 



Attorney Ballinger's Fee 641 



La Follette's on the Controversy 647 



"Search Their Pockets" 64T 



The People for Conservation 648 



Disposing of Natural Resources 64S 



Heirs and Testators 648 



Seeing the Point 64S 



Pardee on the Letter 648 



The Effect of the Letter 649 



Senate Committee to Investigate Indian Forests. . . 649 



Tlie Effect of Environment 649 



How It Looks in Illinois 649 



A Typical Comment 649 



Pinchot and Ballinger 649 



The Kind of Fighters tlie People Need 649 



The People with Him 650 



Let Pinchot Alone 650 



The People's Country 650 



Mr. Pinchot at Los Angeles 650 



Mr. Pinchot at San Francisco 651 



President Taft to Forester Pinchot 651 



Forester Pinchot's Statement 651 



National Forester Pinchot's Pluck 651 



The Row in the Interior Department 652 



A Fighter of Men 6.'52 



Titanic Struggle over Conservation 652 



Mathews on the Water-power Trust 6.52 



Iowa State Conservation Commission 653 



Conservation in Wisconsin 65;'. 



More Incendiary Fires 653 



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