American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



July CONTENTS 1914 



UNLOCKING ALASKA 469 



With 24 illustrations. 

 THE WORLD'S OLDEST TREE 486 



With one illustration. 



A CITY'S TREE WORK 489 



With eight illustrations. 

 RANGER YOUNG WILD, ON THE FIRE LINE, OR LARIAT LAURA'S FATAL 



FORM— By E. T. Allen 496 



DESTROY DISEASED PINES 498 



LUMBER TRADE AND THE CANAL— By Robert Dollar 499 



PACIFIC COAST CONDITIONS 500 



FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE— By Warren H. Miller .501 



With ten illustrations. 



BALSAM FIR FOR PULP 509 



With three illustrations. 



AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT 510 



FOREST SERVICE AND PUBLIC— By J. G. Redington 511 



With two illustrations. 



SCENIC FOREST PRESERVED 513 



A LUMBERMAN'S VIEWS 514 



NUMEROUS FOREST FIRES 516 



With five illustrations. 



THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND ACRES MORE 523 



PHILIPPINE FOREST CONCESSIONS 524 



WHITE MOUNTAIN CONFERENCE 525 



NEW STYLE SHEEP HERDING 526 



THE WRATH OF THE RIVER— A poem— By Rachel L. Dithridge 527 



INJURY TO THE LARCH BY SAWFLY LARVAE— By Maud DeWitt Pearl 528 



THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT— By Elwood Wilson 529 



EDITORIAL 5:$i 



FOREST NOTES 534 



NEW BOOKS RECEIVED 538 



CURRENT LITERATURE 539 



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 

 CO Act of March 3, 1879. 



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