American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underhill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



January CONTENTS 1914 



COVER PICTURE— "GROWN UP SO THICK WITH SAPLINGS THAT IT IS 



HARD TO GET ANYWHERE NEAR THE BROOK." 

 FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE (to be continued)— By Warren H. 



Miller 1 



With ten illustrations. 



FEDERAL POWER SUPREME ON FEDERAL LANDS 12 



THE ANNUAL MEETING 13 



FOREST PLANTING ON PIKE'S PEAK— By Geo. A. Duthie 14 



With five illustrations. 



RECONNAISSANCE: ITS RELATION TO FOREST WORKING PLANS— By 

 R. H. Boerker 22 



With eight illustrations. 



SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE BLACK FOREST 31 



With six illustrations. 



FOR AN APPALACHIAN NATIONAL PARK— By Donald Gillis 37 



With six illustrations. 



FOREST CONSERVATION AND AGRICULTURE— By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr._- 44 

 With five illustrations. 



SAVING THE PRIMEVAL PINES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 51 



With one illustration. 



CONSERVATION OF LIFE IN THE LUMBER CAMPS— By Miss Mabel T. 

 Boardman 52 



With one illustration. 



THE GOVERNMENT FORESTS 55 



PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF FOREST ECONOMICS— Bv E. T. Allen 58 



FORESTRY CONFERENCE AT VANCOUVER 64 



THE BLIGHTS OF CONIFEROUS NURSERY STOCK 65 



MANY USES FOR BIRCH 66 



MAPLE IS HOLDING ITS OWN 67 



NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO STUDY FOREST INSECT PROBLEMS 68 



FOREST PRODUCTS EXPOSITION BULLETIN 69 



TIMBER ESTIMATING IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST— By H. J. Brown-__- 69 



FIRE PROTECTION ON THE OZARK NATIONAL FOREST— By Francis Kiefer_ 71 



ELK FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK 72 



FOREST NOTES 73 



STATE NOTES 73 



CURRENT LITERATURE 76 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 

 Subscription price, two dollars per year; single copies, twenty cents. 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, under the 



Act of March 3, 1879. 

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