American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestri; Association 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



July CONTENTS 1912 



A DEFINITE STATE FOREST POLICY— By E. A. Sterling 421 



With ten illustrations. 



RETURNING LAND TO IDAHO 4m 



THE DISMAL SWAMP OF VIRGINIA— By Arlliur Rollick 4;n 



With four illustrations. 



AN EXPLANATION 4:!4 



SAN DIEGO'S MUNICIPAL FOREST— By Max Watson 4:!5 



With four illustrations. 



FIRST PURCHASE OF WHITE MOUNTAIN LANDS UNDER THE WEEKS 

 LAW 440 



FAVORABLE TO WHITE MOUNTAINS 441 



RAISING ELK AND DEER - 44:! 



A DEMONSTRATION FOREST 444 



THE FORESTRY CONFERENCE IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 445 



STATE FOREST PROBLEMS IN MARYLAND 44G 



With five illustrations. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS MEETING 453 



THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY 453 



With two illustrations. 



THE CHESTNUT TREES GOING 457 



With five illustrations. 



LUMBERING AND FORESTRY— By George A. Chedel 4'JO ' 



With six illustrations. 



THE PROBLEM OF OUR LOGGED OFF LANDS— By J. J. Donovan 4(57 



PINCHOT TO THE BOY SCOUTS 409 



TAXATION OF FOREST PROPERTY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE— By J. H. Foster 470 



CHESTNUT BLIGHT WARNING 473 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 474 



STATE NEWS— 



Maine . 475 Kentucky 476 



Colorado 475 Massachusetts 470 



New Jersey 475 Vermont 47(> 



Missouri 475 Oregon 477 



Tennessee 475 Michigan 477 



Minnesota 476 Montana 477 



New York 476 Wisconsin 477 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Britisli Columbia Forest Act 477 Hanging Forest Fire Starters 479 



County Reforestation 477 I'ighting the Beetle 479 



Turning Wornout Land Into a Forest 478 Pennsylvania Railroad Tree Planting 479 



Sunken l*"orest Uncovered 478 I'orest Ivxpcrinients 479 



Tool Caches in the Forest 478 h'ast C.rowiuK Ivucalyptus 479 



'J'lic Largest Live Oak 478 Raising Big Tree t)eedlings 479 



BOOK REVIEWS 480 



EDUCATIONAL— 



Biltmore F'orest School . 480 Mr. Spring Goes to Cornell 480 



CURRENT LITERATURE 4Sl 



AMERICAN FORESTRY Is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 

 Subscription price, two dollars per year; single copies, twenty cents. 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, under the 



Act of March 3, 1879. 7£ 



