American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



April 



CONTENTS 



1910 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



KEENE VALLEY IN THE ADIRONDACKS— Photograph by George Parker. .Frontispiece 

 Description on page 207. 



CHECKING FLOODS IN THE FRENCH ALPS— By Barrington Moore 199 



IlUistrations from photographs by the author. 



THE INFLUENCE OF FORESTS ON CLIMATE AND FLOODS— Illustrated 209 



The Appalachian Forests and the Moore Report — By Filibert Roth, Professor 



of Forestry, University of Michigan 209 



Forests as Factors in Stream-flow — By L. C. Glenn, Professor of Geology, 



Vanderbilt University 217 



The Influence of Forests on Climate and on Floods — By George F. Swain, 



Professor of Civil Engineering, Harvard University 224 



CLASSIFICATION OF WOODS BY STRUCTURAL CHARACTERS— By C. D. Mell. . 241 



PROTEST AGAINST THE WOODSMEN OF THE FOREST OF GASTINE— F<?r^(?. 



Translated from Ronsard by Bristow Adams 244 



CORRESPONDENCE AND QUERIES— 



Natural Checks to Distribution of White Pine — Robert T. Morris 245 



EDITORIAL— 



The Weeks Bill Reported 246 



Not a Oue-man Cause 247 



Pulp Wood Economies 247 



NATIONAL FOREST WORK— 



A Western View 248 



The Cost of War and Peace 2.50 



Tlie Growing of Eucalyptus 251 



Working on Administrative Problems 252 National Forest Work in Florida 254 



Squatter RiKhts in National Forests 2.52 New Pine Tree Nursery in Montana 255 



Grazing— Trespass on National Forests 253 Government Improving Forests 255 



The Use of Hickory in the United States 254 



STATE WORK— 



Colorado State Forestry Association 25G 



Forest Fire Protection in Idaho 25G 



Kansas 257 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Foreign Planters Seek American Trees 259 



Trade in Pacific Coast Timber 259 



Pennsylvania Railroad Company's Forest Work.. 260 



Ohio 258 



Pennsylvania 258 



Forest Destruction 



Bonds for W^aterways . 



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