American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



November CONTENTS 1910 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



A PICTURE THAT TELLS ITS OWN STORY Frontispeice 



FUNDAMENTALS OF THE FIRE PROBLEM— By Henry S. Graves 629 



HOW THE FIRES WERE FOUGHT— By F. A. Silcox 631 



THE FIRE FIGHTERS (Poem)— By Arthur Chapman 639 



WHAT PROTECTIVE COOPERATION DID— By E. T. Allen 641 



FOREST FIRES IN WASHINGTON AND OREGON— By C. S. Chapman 644 



HOW TELEPHONES SAVED LIVES— By C. J. Buck 648 



FOREST FIRES IN WASHINGTON— By Joel Shomaker 652 



TWO MILLION DOLLARS WORTH BURNED IN ONE DAY— By Gen. C. C. 



Andrews 655 



FIRES ON THE FLATHEAD FOREST IN MONTANA— By H. H. Chapman 657 



THE PROTECTION OF FORESTS FROM FIRE (Continued)— By Henry S. 



Graves 659 



RANDOM TALK ON FOREST FIRES 667 



EDITORIAL— 



The Growth of a Great Policy 670 A Recognized Public Need 671 



The Southern Conservation Congress 671 The "Ultimate Consumer" 672 



THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATION CONGRESS 673 



THE EIGHTEENTH IRRIGATION CONGRESS 676 



CURRENT LITERATURE— Monthly List for October, 1910 678 



STATE WORK— 



New York 682 



WHAT FOREST FIRES COST IN 19I0 681 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Indiana Forestry Association Formed 683 China May Send I's Students of Forestry 683 



Needed Forest Laws for Washington 683 Resolutions of Minnesota Citizens 683 



The Proposed Nebraska State Forest 683 American Sliippers Criticized 684 



Five Million Dollars from a Town Forest 683 Idaho Understands Conservation 681 



Biltmoro Winter Term C83 Farm Forests of Virginia 685 



STATE FORESTRY ORGANIZATIONS 686 



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