FORESTRY and IRRIGATION 



FRANK GLOVER HEATON [ 

 THOMAS ELMER WILL \Editors 



CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1908 



PORTRAIT OF HON. GIFFORD PINCHOT Frontispiece 



Illustration for "'The Nezv Commission," page 380 



THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS— By A. B. Plowman 363 



Illustrated 



THE DEATH OF THE FOREST— Poem— By Lillian H. Shney 369 



WATER CONSERVATION IN ARIZONA— By W. B. Mershon 370 



Illustrated 



THE NEXT GENERATION'S REPROACH AGAINST ITS ANCESTORS— 



Poem — By Richard H. Douni Boerker 372 



FOREST TREE NURSERIES— By Q. R. Craft 2,72, 



Illustrated 



THE NEW COMMISSION 380 



Witli frontispiece illustration 



WORK IN A NATIONAL FOREST— By Charles Howard Shinn 383 



EDITORIAL 



The Conservation Commission 387 Nominate Members 392 



■'United We Stand" 388 Conservation of Human Resources 392 



Mountain Forests and Floods 390 Tlie I'^orestry Fight in Denver 392 



By Way of Reply 390 "Bureaucracy" 393 



The Question of Snow 391 Government "Taxes" 394 



Where Tliere Are No Snows 391 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Irrigation Development in Washington 395 Government to Study SUelterbelts 399 



Reclamation Work for Socialist Settlement 395 Wood-pulp Report 401 



Big Project for Palouse Country 397 France's Far-sighted Forest Policy 402 



American Irrigation Scheme :;98 The American Nile 403 



More Resolutions 398 



THE DRYAD 'S LAST STAND— Pot'»;— By Victoria Ehsabeth Gittings 404 



With decorations 



IN THE DEPARTMENTS 



Washington National Forest 406 Forest Service Supply Depot at Ogden 409 



Reclamation in the Northwest 406 Map of the Grant's Pass Quadrangle 409 



Would Prevent Spring Floods 408 



FOREST CONSERVATION— By R. A. Long 410 



Paper read at the White House Conference 



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