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CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1909 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



BLUE GUM (Eucalyptus), SHOWING BARK, LEAVES, AND FLOWERS. .Frontispiece 



HOW OUR FORESTS ARE WASTED, AND WHY THE NEED OF GOVERN- 

 MENT CONTROL— By S. T. Kelsey 657 



THE FUNCTION OF THE FOREST— By Dr. N. Kaumanns 671 



RESERVOIRS ON CHIPPEWA RIVER— By Hon. Thad C. Pound 679 



PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO RUNNING WATER— By Harrison Williams 683 



SUGGESTION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF PETROLEUM— By Roswell H. 

 Johnson 685 



THE WESTERN PHOSPHATE LANDS— By Morse S. Duffield 



686 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DYNAMIC GEOGRAPHER— By Frank Buffington 



Vroonian 689 



THE NEW POLITICAL SCHOOL— By Thos. Elmer Will. 



696 



EDITORIAL— 



Competitive Methods 699 



Make the Rivers Available for Transportation.. TOO 



Farmers Building Their Own Roads 701 



The Dry-farming Congress at Billings 701 



Where to Get the Money 702 



Courts, Congress, and Conservation 702 



CoNSEKVATiON Not Owned by Mr. Plnchot 703 



Whither Are We Drifting? 704 



Whose Is the Land? 705 



More "Progress" Backward 705 



Power and Similar Bills 707 



THE FOREST GIANT (Poem)— By Charles Albert Brewton 70S 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Mr. Start Made Secretary 709 



Conservation Congress Resolutions 709 



President Taft to the Conservation Congress 700 



President Taft on Conservation 709 



Mr. Pinehot at the Trans-Mississippi Congress.. 710 

 Mr. Pinehot at the Conservation Congress at 



Seattle 711 



Mr. Pinehot' s Conservation Ideas and Municipal 



Franchises 712 



Hawaii Wide Awake 712 



The Changing Sentiment 712 



Single-taxers with Forester Pinehot 713 



Irrigation at Yakima •■. 713 



Reclamation Service Notes 713 



Floods and Forests 716 



Enrollment in Pennsylvania State College 7 



Need for Protecting Pacific-coast Forests 71C 



Forestry Pamphlets 71(i 



Meeting of Connecticut Forestry Association.... 716 



The First National Forest in the United States.. 716 



Forestr.v Patrol Recommended 717 



State Control of Maine Forests 717 



Governor Hughes on Forest Conservation 717 



Conserving Miners' Lives 717 



Drainage Circulars 718 



Redeeming the Great Valley of California 71S 



A National Land Exposition in Chicago 719 



The National Land Laws 7i' 



Let's Focus on Something for Conservation.... 719 



Colorado Conservation Commission Resolutions... 720 



Japanese Visitors in America 720 



Waterways Meetings 720 



Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical 



Engineers 721 



The Nature Lovers' League 721 



California to Raise Eastern Hardwood 721 



The Smoke Nuisance 721 



Soil Fertility the Foundation of Progress 722 



Maine's Timber Loss 722 



Reforestation in Ontario 722 



Forestry in California 722 



Saving the Great Oak at Edgewood 723 



Exhaustion of Mineral Resources 723 



Utilizing Waste 724 



Squirrels Menacing Forests 724 



Making Engines Spark-proof 724 



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