American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestri^ 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 



December CONTENTS 1914 



COVER PICTURE— lUccillewaet Valley, British Columbia 



THE SWITZERLANDS OF AMERICA— Bj^ Agnes C. Laut 839 



With fourteen illustrations. 



FORESTERS IN THE GREAT WAR— By Samuel T. Dana. 858 



With nine illustrations. 



NATIONAL FOREST ADMINISTRATION— By Hon. David F. Houston 867 



TAHITI— By E. T. Allen 870 



With eleven illustrations. 



BUYING HANDLES BY WEIGHT 880 



THE EUROPEAN WAR AND THE LUMBER TRADE— By R. C. Bryant 881 



PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY PROGRESS 886 



TACKLING TAMALPAIS— By Frederick E, Olmstead 887 



With five illustrations. 



FIRE CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA— By Alexander W. Dodge 893 



THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT— By Ellwood Wilson 894 



ANNUAL CONSUMPTION OP WOOD 897 



EDITORIAL 898 



FOREST NOTES 901 



ARBORIST— FORESTER.— By Alfred Gaskill 906 



CURRENT LITERATURE 907 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 



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



Copyright 1914, by the American Forestry Association 



Entered as secona-ciass maii matter Decemoer 24. 1909. a: the Post-oince at Washington, under the 



Act 01 Marcn 3. 1879. 



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