FRANK GLOVER HEATON, Bdiior 



CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1908 



RECLAMATION WORK IN THE WEST Frontispiece 



THE CULT OF CONSERVATION— By W J McGee, LL.D 469 



WORK ON A NATIONAL FOREST— By Charles Howard Shinn 473 



Illustrated 



FOREST POLICY OF PENNSYLVANIA— By John L. Strobeck, 481 



Illustrated 



NATIONS' NEED OF FORESTRY WORK— By Mrs. J. E. MacKisson 487 



Illustrated 



THE PLEA OF THE CITY ELM— Poc;n— By Marian Mead 492 



EDITORIAL— With Illustrations 



Change of Title 493 Conservation, a World-movement 40G 



Our Duty to Posterity 493 Forest Fires 498 



Not for To-day 493 The Next Annual Meeting 500 



Tlie Practical View 494 Another Form of Activity 501 



THE HEGIRA— Po^m— By "The Poet Lariat" 50.3 



THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FOREST ASSOCIATION 504 



THE NATION'S HERCULEAN TASK— By Claude N. Bennett 506 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Arizona Benefits from National Forests 508 Government Maps for Automobilists 509 



Japan Makes Innovations in Forest Management . . 508 New Publications 510 



AS ONE FOREST RANGER VIEWS IT— By Fred. Hanson 512 



A GREAT FOREST— By John Collins, M.D 514 



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