FORESTRY and IRRIGATION 



FRANK GLOVER HEATON, Editor 



CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1908 



VIEW IN THE NEW CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST FronUsplccc 



A PLEA FOR THE NATIONALIZATION OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES 



By Henry Riesenberg 419 



THE BRANDING OF THE FORESTS— Poem— By "The Poet Lariat" 425 



RAILROAD FORESTRY WORK 426 



NATIONAL FORESTS REDISTRICTED 428 



MEMORIAL TO EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND 432 



FORESTRY AT THE BIENNIAL— By Lydia Adams-Williams 435 



THE NEW COMMISSION AT WORK 438 



TREES AND THEIR NAMES 443 



EDITORIAL 



A Remarkable Speech 445 Cliauging Our Title 448 



The Murderous Guard ... 445 Our Membership Campaign 44'J 



Uniforms for Forest Oflictrs 440 A Word of Credit 449 



Costly Steam Yachts 446 Death of es-Pre.-^ident Cleveland 4.50 



Tlie Service It.self 447 Secretary Will's Chautauqua Lecturis 450 



THE FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS-Porm- By Arthur Chapman 452 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Grand Canyon National Fore.'it Made a Game Insure Timber Supply for Montana's .Mines 4.54 



Preserve 45U I'roduction of Precious Stones in the United 



Arizona's Mountain Forests 4.5;'. States 4.i.> 



Soldiers Extinguish Fire in Arizona National ^"^J' "'^ '^l"'" Forester Recovered 455 



Forest 454 Declare for Government Regulation 456 



THE VALUE OF NATURAL SCENERY— By J. Horace MacFarland 457 



CONSERVATION OF POWER RESOURCES— By H. St. Clair Putnam 459 



THE WATER-SUPPLY PROBLEM 465 



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