AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underhill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



Dtoi-mlM-r. 1915. Vol. 21 



CONTENTS 



No. 264 



Cover Picture -The White Ash Tree 



The White Ash — Identification and Characteristics — By S. B. 



Dctvvilcr lOSl 



With four illustrations. 

 Commercial Uses of White Ash lOS.S 



With sixteen illustrations. 



Rock Avalanches— By Guy Elliott Mitchell U)')l) 



With MX illustrations. 

 Huge Natural Arrow Ul')5 



Willi iim- illustration. 



The Annual Meeting. lO'Xi 



Chester W. Lyman l(l"7 



With portrait. 



How Cigar Box Wood Is Secured— By C. H. Pearson UW8 



\\\th three illustrations. 



The Bird Department— By A. A. Allen, Ph.D 1102 



With four illustrations. 



Daniel Boone's "Bar" Tree— By Wilbur R. Matloon IIO.S 



Willi two illustrations. 



Texas Forestry Opportunities llOd 



With ]jnrlrait. 



Michigan's Forestry Work 1 107 



The Biggest Shade Tree Is also the Best 1 108 



With one illustration. 

 The Forest Service Exhibit— By Don Carlos Ellis 1110 



With five illustrations. 



.1113 

 .1113 



State Forester and Maryland Towns Cooperating to Improve 



Publi: Shade Trees 



Increase of Tourists in the National Parks 



Ornamental and Ehade Trees — Parks and the Public — By J.J. 



Lc\'isnn 11 14 



Forest Items from Hawaii ... 1118 



Medal for the Association 1 1 19 



Three Resolutions 1119 



Children's Department — Three Trees — By Bristow Adams 1120 



Famous Tree Surrounded by Pavement 1121 



White Pine Threatened , 1122 



Pinon Tree Splits Large Rock 1 122 



Wood Preserving Department — -By E. A. Sterling 1123 



Domestic Willow Culture 1123 



Editorial 1124 



"Looking Squarely at the Waterpower Problem" — A Book by 



Henry J. Fierce, Reviewed by Henry Sturgis Drinker 1125 



Yosemite Park Improvements 1 127 



The Appalachian Park Association 1128 



Work Now Against Gipsy and Brown Tail Moths 1128 



Few Forest Fires 1128 



Forest Notes 1129 



Book Reviews 1131 



They Like American Forestry 1131 



Canadian Department — By Ell wood Wilson 1132 



Current Literature 1 133 



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