American Forestry -^ 



The Magazine of the Amei'ican Forestry Association bo'^a -^^ 



Q> ,R >Er 



May 



CONTENTS 



1910 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



IN THE UPPER HETCH-HETCHY— Photograph by J. N. LeConte Frontispiece 



THE HETCH-HETCHY VALLEY: A NATIONAL QUESTION— By John Muir. ... 263 



Illustrations from photographs by J. N. LeConte, Rodney L. Glisan, Herbert W. 

 Gleason, J. F. Kinman, and W. L. Hnber. 



HISTORIC TREES OF WASHINGTON— By B. R. Winslow. Illustration 270 



HOW NEW JERSEY IS TRYING TO IMPROVE HER FORESTS— By Alfred 

 Gaskill. Illustrations 274 



STATE REGULATION OF TIMBER. CUTTING 280 



Abstract of the Maine Opinion 280 



Discussion by a Forester — By Austin Gary 281 



Discussion by a Lawyer — By Allen Hollis 284 



FOREST CONSERVATION AND TAXATION— By Charles Lathrop Pack 291 



With a portrait of the author. 



THE WEEKS BILL — Report of the Majority of the House Committee in Favor of 

 the Bill 293 



EDITORIAL— 



Taxation the Primary Issue 299 



The Need of Private Foresti-.v .300 



Misrepresentation 302 



The Case of the Hetch-Hetchy 303 



NATIONAL FOREST WORK— 



Tlie New Forest Products Laboratory 307 



The Ratio of Manufactured to Rough Lumber... .307 

 The Forest Service in Nebraska 30S 



STATE WORK— 



Forest Fires in California 310 



Railwa.v Ties in Connecticut 310 



New Hampshire 310 



EDUCATION— 



Biltniore Forest School 



Correspondence Course in Forestry 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



.313 

 313 



Taxation of Forest Lands 314 



A Correction 31.^ 



Bejuco (Rattan) 315 



The National Orange on Conservation 31.5 



LTp and Be Doing 31G 



The Real Fight at Hand 316 



Let Us Err on the Safe Side 304 



It Makes a Difference Where the Appropriation 



Goes 305 



Our Commonwealths' Neglected Opportunities.. 305 



Range Fires and the Texas Tick 308 



Changes in Two National Forests. 309 



New York 311 



Oregon Forests First 311 



Pennsylvania Convention of State Foresters 311 



Forestr.v in the State College of Washington... 313 

 A National School of Forestry 313 



The Growth of a White Pine 316 



Western Forest and Conservation Association.. 317 



One Owner's Planting 31S 



Burning a Half-million a Year 31 S 



Tlie San Antonio Basin 31S 



A Neglected River 318 



EXPLOITATION AND CONSERVATION— From The Survey 31Q 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 

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Indexes for Vol, XV (1909) are ready and may be had on application 



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