American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Fores tri; Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 

 Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underhill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



December CONTENTS 1912 



RIVER DRIVING— By W. R. Brown 757 



With nine illustrations. 



FIRE LINES DESPITE THE LAW 768 



PAPER MILLS AND FORESTRY IN CANADA— By Elwood Wilson 769 



With four illustrations. 



MUNICIPAL FORESTRY— By Prof. Nelson C. Brown 777 



With five illustrations. 



THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE FORESTER OF MINNE- 

 SOTA— By Prof. E. G. Cheyney 783 



With eleven illustrations. 



EMPIRE ST.\TE ASSOCIATION MEETING 794 



With one illustration. 



THE FOREST RANGER— By A. G. Jackson 797 



With three illustrations. 



CONSERVATION REALIZED IN MASSACHUSETTS— By Harris A. Reynolds—. 800 



WESTERN FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION MEETING. 802 



NATIONAL FOREST RESERVE IN WEST VIRGINIA— By J. A. Viquesney 803 



DANGER TO THE NATIONAL FOREST POLICY— By Henry S. Graves 805 



LACK OF CHRISTMAS TREES 807 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 809 



COMING MEETINGS 809 



STATE NEWS— 



Rhode Island 810 Oregon 812 



Maine 810 M.iryland 812 



Pennsylvania 810 Michigan 812 



Kentucky 810 Wisconsin 813 



Massachusetts 810 Oliio 813 



Alabama 811 Vermont 813 



North Carolina 811 California SU 



NEWS NOTES 815 



CURRENT LITERATURE 816 



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. 



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