American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



March CONTENTS 1910 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



CATTLE GRAZING IN A NATIONAL FOREST Cover Illustration 



VALLEY LAND STRIPPED OF SOIL BY THE FRESHETS OF MAY 21 AND 



AUGUST 6, 1901, McDowell county, north Carolina Frvntispiecc 



THE BATTLE FOR THE WEEKS BILL: Illustrations from the White Mountains by 

 Charles A. Lawrence, Lynn, Mass. ; the Southern Appalachians from the United 

 States Forest Service 133 



GROWING OAK TREES— By Edward W. Hocker 145 



FOREST PROBLEMS IN THE PHILIPPINES (concluded)— By Barrington Moore. 149 



FORESTRY WORKERS OF LOUISIANA, HON. HENRY E. HARDTNER, 



Photograph 155 



THE EFFECT OF THE FOREST UPON WATERS, Translation— By Mildred A. 

 Castle 156 



STORIES TOLD IN RANGER CAMPS, No. 2— By Charles Howard Shinn 173 



NIGHT IN THE WINTER WOODS— Poem— By J. B. Carrington 176 



ECONOMIC SELECTION AND PROCESSING OF RAW MATERIALS IN THE 



PAPER INDUSTRY— By Martin L. Griffin 177 



FEDERAL AID FOR TEACHING FORESTRY— By Prof. Samuel Green 179 



THE APPALACHIAN FORESTS 181 



EDITORIAL— 



What tlie Weeks Bill Is 183 The Lesson of Canada 186 



The Report of Mr. Moore 184 



THE NATIONAL FORESTS— 



National Forests and Stream Protection, by The National Forest Boundaries 188 



P. A. Fenn 187 



STATE WORK— 



Kentucky 189 Massachusetts 190 



Louisiana 189 New York 191 



Maryland 189 Oregon 191 



Maine 190 



EDUCATION— 



Colorado School of Forestry 192 



THE APPALACHIAN FOREST CAMPAIGN— 



A Clear-cut Resolution 193 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



The Weyerhaeuser Idea as to Reforestation.... 194 Trees and Railroads 195 



A Municipal Forest 194 Effect of Oxygen In Coal 19.'5 



Fighting Forest Fires 194 New York Constructing a Waterway 195 



Drop in Lumber Output 194 The Canal Requires Inland Waterways 195 



A Forestry Course 194 Artesian Possibilities in Antelope Valley 195 



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