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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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PLAiXTING THOUSANDS uF TREES 



With several hundred school girls and boys at work, the Berks County. Pennsylvania, Conservation 

 Association was enabled to plant several thousand pine seedlings in one day. 



A TROUT PROBLEM 



I HOROUGH tests of devices to pre- 

 vent fish from entering irrigation 

 ditches are to be made by Forest 

 Service ofificers, who say that thousands 

 of the trout placed in western streams by 

 the Government are killed through being 

 carried into the ditches and washed out 

 on the fields. There are not less than 

 1200 irrigation projects on or near the 

 National Forests, and in many places the 

 loss of trout is very heavy. The amount 

 of water used in irrigation, it is said, often 

 determines the advisability of artificially 

 stocking the streams. 



The Government annually plants large 

 quantities of fish fry in the streams of 

 the National Forests. Last year over 

 1,100,000 were planted in Colorado and 

 Wyoming alone. This was done to render 

 the Forests more attractive to the public 

 by 



affording good fishing. 



campaign was started and various societies gave prizes 

 for essays on conservation and bird life and wild flowers; 

 and the beautification of the roadside has been started, 

 and an efi'ort is made to form an organization for the 

 purpose of preventing the further desecration of our 

 moiuitain sides and to finally acquire the mountain sides 

 surrounding the City of Reading." 



The officers of the Association are Jonathan Mould, 

 president, Solan L. Parkes, executive secretary, and 

 Daniel K. Hoch, treasurer. 



WHITE MOUNTAINS FORESTRY 

 CONFERENCE 



NATIONAL Parks, National Forests, and State 

 Forests will be the chief topics for discussion 

 at the annual New England Forestry Conference 

 at the Crawford House, Crawford Notch, N. H., Septem- 

 ber 5 to 7, 1916. Held in the midst of the new National 

 Forest, which serves also as a National Park, and adjoin- 

 ing the State Purchase of 6000 acres in the Crawford 

 Notch, these subjects of administration will he particu- 

 larly appropriate. 



jNIr. Henry S. Graves, Chief U. S. Forester, and 

 Mr. Wm. L. Hall, Associate Forester, in charge of the 

 White Mountain and Southern Appalachian purchases, 

 will be present ; also Dr. B. E. Fernow, President of the 

 Society of American Foresters, and Professor Filibert 

 Roth, Director of the Forest School, Universit\- of Michi- 

 gan. It is lioped that Mr. Stephen T. blather. Director 

 of the National Parks, will make an address. 



There will be excursions into the National Forest, on 

 the Presidential Range, and through the splendid forest 

 of primeval spruces on the New Ham])shire State reserve. 



A cordial invitation is extended to all members of the 

 American Forestry Association. 



WASHINGTON'S TREES CRITICIZED 



Bv Fr.\xk a. Cutting 



A SHORT time ago I was in Washington and was 

 particularly disappointed as regards the trees in 

 our National Capital. There had not been much 

 care taken in setting out the young trees. Many of them 

 did not have a good leader and the branches are low and 

 they never can be brought into a condition to make good 

 trees. Many trees have not received the pruning and 

 attention that they should have received. 



Shade trees in a city should be selected carefully and 

 of varieties that are long lived and grow to a good size. 

 Some of the old towns in New England have beautiful 

 trees. They are 30 to 40 feet up to the first branches and 

 one can get a beautiful view underneath the branches in 

 all directions. In these best shaded cities and towns we 

 are now enjoying the thorough work that some one did 

 for us a hundred years ago. We should be as careful to 

 provide shade for those who are to come after us. No 

 new street should be accepted if it does not have shade 

 trees. .Ml the streets in \\'ashington that have no shade 

 trees should be studied carefully and the trees that are 

 best adapted for each particular street should be planted 

 at once so tliat they would soon add to the beauty of the 

 city and comfort of the people. 



In country towns and villages, the selectmen should 

 refuse to accejjt any streets from land promoters until a 

 first-class line of trees has been established on both 

 sides of the street. 



Shade trees on the streets and around our homes are 

 of great ini])ortance to all the people of the United States, 

 and with a little eft'ort on the part of the people we can 

 have a great imnroxement in the near future. 



