FORESTRY and IRRIGATION 



THOMAS ELMER WILL 

 WM. CANFIELD LEE 



Editor 

 Associate Editor 



CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1908 



A^IEW IN INTERIOR OF A ErCALYPTUS GROVE 



Frontispiece 



EDITORIAL: 



The Constitutional Question 119 



Individual or State Action 120 



If the Nation Is Impotent 120 



Express Powers 121 



What Are Constitutions For.... 122 



Take Off the Taxes 122 



A Practicable Reform Press.. 123 



Mexico's Opportunity 123 



NEWS AND NOTES: 



Annual Meeting of American Forestry 



Association. ;.., 124 



Congressional Hearing on Appalachian 



Bill 124 



Appalachian Bill Necessary 124 



Index for 3907, Vol. XIII 125 



Eucalyptus Trees in Florida 125 



Destruction of Lowland Forests 125 



The Earth Modified by Man 126 



Pioneer Farmers Hear About Trees 126 



Lumbermen and Railroads 126 



Voting on State Tree 127 



Maine Women's Clubs 127 



New Mexico Industry 127 



Another Municipal Forest 127 



Immense Southern Water Powers 127 



Harvard Men in Maine Woods 128 



Kansas Agricultural College 128 



Iowa Agricultural College 128 



An Academy Teaches Forestry 128 



Abrasive Materials in United States 128 



A New Forestry Society l'^8 



West Virginia Forestry Association 128 



Colorado Forestry Meeting 129 



Commission in South Carolina 129 



New Jersey Legislation 129 



Tax Reform in New York 129 



New York Board of Trade 129 



Irrigation and Bridging 129 



Irrigation Around Spokane 130 



New Irrigation on Kootenai 130 



Every Acre of Forest Reserved 130 



Bankingarid Forestry 131 



Forest Extension in Ireland 131 



Siberian Timber Shipped 8,000 Miles... 131 



Jewel Cave National Monument 132 



A Business Forestry Association 132 



Not So Costly After All 132 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



Reported by Mre. Lydia Adams-Williams 



CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE APPALACHIAN BILL. By Harvey N. 



Shepard 



THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS. By Hon. James Wilson. 



{Illustrated) 



IMPROVEMENT OF OUR HERITAGE. Bv Gifford Pinchot. (Illustrated) 

 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE YEAR 



1907. (Illustrated) 



THE OAK DEFIANT. (Poem). By Frederick Le Roy Sargent 

 PROPRIETY AND NEED OF FEDERAL ACTION. By Hon. Hoke Smith 



A HICKORY" TREE ON ARBOR DAY. (Poem) 



WORK IN A NATIONAL FOREST. By Charles H. Sbinn. 



No. 6: CHRISTMAS IN SIERRA NORTH 



U. S. RECLAMATION SERVICE 



U. S. FOREST SERVICE 



WITH MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS 



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