American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underhill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



September CONTENTS 1912 



FROM RED LAKE TO RAIXV RIVER— 15y William T. Cox . oiU 



With six illustrations. 



CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK: A WORK OF ART— By llaml,! A. Caparn 557 



With six illustrations. 



MASSACHUSETTS FORESTRN' WORK 5CG 



With twelve illustrations. 



GREAT LOSS FROM YUKON FIRES ■ 574 



FIGHTING THE CHESTNUT TREE BLIGHT— By Oliver 1). Schock 575 



With seven illustrations. 



PROTECTING ELK IN WYOMING 580 



BOY SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN 581 



THE FOREST SERVICE APPROPRIATION 585 



INSTRUCTIONS IN TIMBER ESTIMATING— By Edward C. M. Richards, 

 Ph. B., M. F 587 



CANADIAN FORESTRY MEETING 591 



WON FOREST FIRE FIGHT ____5n2 



A TREE— By Burt W. Johnson 594 



NORTHWESTERN FOREST FIRE CONDITIONS 595 



EARLY LUMBERING 59G 



$20,000,000 Y^EARLY FROM ONE FOREST 597 



OLDEST LIVING THINGS 597 



THE TALLEST TREES 598 



PINE LANDS OF NICARAGUA -,()8 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 599 



BOOK REVIEWS 600 



EDUCATIONAL GOn- 



STATE NEWS— 



Massachusetts 607 Florida 608 



Ohio 607 Texas 608 



Washington 607 New York 608 



Kentucky 607 Oregon 608 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Tlie Cannon Ball Tree 604 Japan is Years Ahead , 605 



I'amous Pine Gone 604 Seeking German Bugs 005 



Watching for Forest Fires 604 Sequoia Sempcrvircns 605 



Trees to Check Floods 604 Conserving Alabama's Forests (;0"i 



Remarkable Trees 604 Pacific Logging Congress 60.") 



A New Surrender Tree 605 Railroad Reforesting 606 



National Forest Changes 605 Enforcing Plant Quarantine 606 



CURRENT LITERATURE 609 



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. i^f 



