American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestri; Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



February CONTENTS 1915 



COVER — Fire Lookout at Top of Pine Tree, Shasta National Forest, California. 



DESTROYING MT. MITCHELL— By Raymond Pullman 83 



With eleven illustrations. 



THE MT. MITCHELL TRAIL— By H. W. Plummer and N. Buckner 94 



With three illustrations. 



PLANTING TIME AND CARE OF TREES— By S. B. Detweiler 100 



BOY SCOUTS AND FORESTS— By K. W. Woodward 103 



With ten illustrations. 



THE JUNIPERO OAK— By Allen Henry Wright 110 



With one illustration. 



FORESTS AND GAME PRESERVATION— By Ottomar H. Van Norden lU 



With five illustrations. 



IMPROVING WHITE MOUNTAIN FORESTS— By Wm. L. Hall 117 



With seven illustrations. 



FORESTRY AT THE EXPOSITIONS— By Allen Henry Wright 127 



With one illustration. 



LARGEST ELM IN CONNECTICUT— By Norman deW. Betts 128 



With two illustrations. 



CANADIAN LUMBER COMPETITION— By H. D. Langille 130 



With six illustrations. 



MAINE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 140 



With three illustrations. 



NEW YORK STATE MEETING 141 



NORTH CAROLINA MEETING 142 



THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 143 



EDITORIAL 145 



WITH THE FORESTERS 147 



THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 148 



FOREST NOTES 150 



CURRENT LITERATURE 152 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association 

 Subscription price, three dollars per year; single copies, twenty-five cents. 



Copyright 1915, by the American Forestry Association 



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



Act of March 3, 1879. 



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