FORESTRY and IRRIGATION 



THOMAS ELMER WILL 

 WM. CANFIELD LEE 



Editor 

 Associate Editor 



CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1908 



EDITORIAL 



Ostriches vs. Wise Men 61 



The Pressing Need 62 



What Shall We Do? 63 



The Task and the Tools 63 



Equip the Association 63 



Brace Up Your Congressman 64 



Practical Forestry. 65 



NEWS AND NOTES 



The Annual Meeting.. 66 



Freight Rates and Tree Cutting 66 



What the Governor of Ohio Says 67 



Stay the Axe, Then Guide It. 67 



Roosevelt Pleased at New Organization... 68 



An Exasperating Anomaly 68 



National Park on the Hudson 68 



The Grand Canyon Set Aside 69 



Pinnacles Made National Monument 66 



New Mineral Found in Alaska 69 



Fungus Checks Bark Beetle 70 



Insects Are Rivals of Fire 7o 



Shipworms Ruin Northwest Lumber 71 



Organization of Alabama Forestry Com- 



mis.sion 71 



Professor Winkenwerder of Colorado 72 



Professor Scott of Iowa 72 



Antioch Summer School of Forestry 72 



Massachusetts Agricultural College. 72 



Class in National Forest Management 73 



Children and Civic Betterment 73 



Mr. Mills's Splendid Work 74 



Good Roads Urged by the Grange 74 



Finances of Roadside Trees 74 



Paying Crop for Swamp Lands 75 



Immense Number of Boxes 75 



Planting Thousands of Pine Seeds 75 



DESOLATION IN DALMATIA. By Florence Keen 76 



A LETTER TO OUR MEMBERS 77 



DESECRATION. (Poem.) By Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer ... 79 



NATIONAL FORESTS AND PUBLIC OPINION. By Lydia Adams- Williams 80 



HEARING ON THE APPALACHIAN BILL 84 



What New England is Doing ......... 84 



Great Activity in the South .... .... .85 



Help from Other Sources 85 



THE TEMPLES EAST AND WEST. (Poem.) By the Lumberman Poet 86 



FOREST PERPETUATION AND WATER SUPPLIES. ( Illmiraied.) . 87 



THE PEACE OF QUIET AISLES. {Poem). By Jane Taaffe ... 89 

 THE MINNESOTA FOREST SCHOOL AT ITASCA PARK. By E. G. 



Cheyney. {Illustrated.) ■ ... 90 



MILLIONS FOR TRIBUTE, BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR DEFENSE. 



By F. M. Eaton. {Illustrated.) ........ 94 



REDWOOD CANYON DEEDED TO UNITED STATES. {Illustrated) . 97 



NATIONAL DRAINAGE CONGRESS. {Illustrated) 99 



WITH MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS ...... 103 



U. S. FOREST SERVICE 106 



U. S. RECLAMATION SERVICE 112 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS . . . . 115 



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