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keep up their agitation — an agitation as watersheds and hillslopes mean equa- 



childish as the speech of the western ble water-flows and clarified streams, 



Serfator referred to above — but the that can bear on their bosoms fleets of 



chorus of approval from the sensible, steamers and barges. The reestablish- 



patriotic men and women of America ment of a large water traffic means a 



will drown their feeble pipings in its lessening of the drain upon the iron 



swelling volume. mines and the coal beds ; so that the 



plan of forest conservation, carried to 

 its logical conclusion, means more to the 



Changing Our Title nation than any other question that now 



faces us. Forest-crowned watersheds 

 O EADERS of Forestry and Irriga- and forested slopes mean an increased 

 In tion will have noticed, on the cover and a continual, rather than an intermit- 

 of the last few numbers of the maga- tent, flow of water in the streams and 

 zine, the forecast of a change in title, the rivers, and they mean, too, preven- 

 In shadow- form the word "Conserva- tion of the silting up of the rivers, the 

 tion" has appeared across the face of mill-ponds, and the harbors into which 

 the old name, and this shadow-forecast the rivers empty. These things mean, 

 has grown stronger and stronger until, in turn, the reestablishment of a vast 

 with this month, the old name passes inland water traffic, and this, again, 

 into the background and is overshad- means a lessening of the prodigal drain 

 owed by the new. With the September upon our mines of coal and iron, a les- 

 issue of the magazine, the title will be sening of transportation charges, and 

 changed completely, and the new one, an incalculable lengthening of the life 

 "Conservation," Avith the explanatory of the nation's natural resources, 

 sub-title, "Woods and Waters ; Soils These things being true, it was de- 

 and Ores," will take its place. cided some time ago that it is time for 

 There are many reasons for this the American Forestry Association to 

 change of title, and a few words of ex- take a definite stand in the forefront of 

 plantation are due the members of the those who demand that a program of 

 American Forestry Association and the conservation be instituted and carried 

 subscribers and readers of the magazine, out to the uttermost. Forestry and irri- 

 For some time it has seemed to those in gation are two vital points in the con- 

 charge of afifairs that the title Forestry servation program, but they are not the 

 AND Irrigation does not fully cover the only points, by any means. The broader 

 ground ; that the magazine, as well as idea of conservation embraces forestry, 

 the Association, stands for more than irrigation, and all the other points we 

 these two features of the broad plan of have mentioned ; therefore, it has 

 national conservation of natural re- seemed fitting that the magazine, the 

 sources. Waterways and water-powers official publication of the American 

 are to be conserved ; soils are to be Forestry Association, should indicate in 

 cared for and kept from wasting into its title the widening scope of the work 

 the rivers and the sea: coal, iron ore, that is before the Association. Expres- 

 and other minerals are to be safe- sions of opinion from individual mem- 

 guarded and so used as to insure, both bers of the Association have so far been 

 to the present generation and the gen- entirely approving ; we invite other 

 erations to come, the fullest possible members to write us, discussing the 

 benefits from the mines of the country, change and giving their views as to 

 And at the same time, the forests of what the Association and the magazine, 

 the land must be taken care of, new under its new title, should stand for. 

 forests established, devastated tracts We have mapped out a plan of cam- 

 covered once more with trees, so that paign reaching many months into the 

 the waterways may become again ar- future ; we are endeavoring to give to 

 teries of travel, rather than choked-up our readers a better and a broader 

 drains or roaring floods. Forested magazine than they have ever had be- 



