AMERICAN FORESTRY I 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION | 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor | 

 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



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Herman H. Chapman S. T. Dana John E. Rhodes B>TaiviCA 



Ernest A. Sterling Frederick S. Underhill S. N. Spring JiAkORN, 



March 1917 Vol. 23 CONTENTS No. 279 | 



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Recreational Uses of the National Forests — By Henry S. Graves. 133 Forestry for Boys and Girls — The Wind and the Trees — By 



With eight illustrations. Bristow Adams 166 



•Conservation of Game in the National Forests and National $300,000 for Pine Blister Disease, an Effective Quarantine Law 168 



Parks— By E. W. Nelson 139 a Feathered Dog in the Manger— By Lewis E. Theiss 168 



With ten illustrations. 



Collecting Tree and Flower Specimens — Dr. R. W. .Shufeldt 169 



Sycamore or Buttonwood Tree Flower — By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt 146 With one illustration. 



With one illustration. 



Save Us from Invading Pests — By J. G. Sanders 147 



With nineteen illustrations. 

 Birds and the Camera — By A. A. Allen 154 



With six illustrations. 



National Forests Given Permanence 170 



That Tent in the Tree 171 



With two ilkistrations. 



India's Forest Management ' 172 



Lowest Forest Fire Loss 172 



The Slash Pine— By Wilbur R. Mattoon 158 



With seven illustrations. Planting Suggestions for April— By J. J. Levison 173 



One of the Undreamt-of Things— By Lewis E. Theiss 160 



Editorial 176 



Efficiency and Economy in Oregon. 

 Michigan in the Pine Blister Fight 160 Increasing the Grazing Fees on National Forests. 



Early Spring and Summer Flowers— By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt ... 161 BookReviews 178 



With se\'cn illustrations. Canadian Department— By EUwood Wilson 180 



Forest Road under Federal Aid Act 165 pour Colonial Houses— By Rawson Woodman Haddon 181 



Boy Scouts Battle Moths 165 With six illustrations. 



Maples — Poem by Richard Butler Glaenzcr 165 



Current Literature 185 



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I One of the following described books will be presented free of charge to any member of the | 



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I No. 1— Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs, 465 pages, 275 illustrations of trees, leaves, | 



I blossoms, fruits, seeds, area of growth, etc. | 



I No. 2— Field Book of Wild Bkds and Their Music, 262 pages, 38 colored and 15 other full-page | 



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Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, under the Act of March 3. 1879 

 Copyright, 1917, by the American Forestry Association 



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