MESA VERDE AND CASA GRANDE NATIONAL PARKS 



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Photugraj'h /'V Mark Daniel 



A TYPICAL HOUSE 



The strong sunlight and intense shadows at this altitude introduce difficulties in 

 photography. It was not an easy matter, therefore, to secure a picture of these 

 cedar rafters and the queerly shaped doorways. The ledges at either side of 

 the doors are at the height of the hand, and were used as a rest to help lift 

 the body over the door sill. The round, black object is a clay vessel of unusual 

 lightness, blackened by fire. 



similar fascinations exist at their very door, enhanced 

 by the absence of an intolerable climate. I would not 

 appear to speak disparagingly of the glory of the desert's 

 fascinations, nor of life along the Nile and the thrills 



matically applied. As soon as the lesion has 

 taken place the vegetable reacts to the wounded 

 spot. Its breathing at this point is quickened, 

 and at the time time protein matters are rushed 

 to the scene. 



"Many plants are provided with secreting 

 canals filled with more or less gummy substances, 

 which are instantly poured out over the wounded 

 surface and protect it. This is true especially 

 of the conifers — pines, firs, etc. — of which the 

 resin makes a swift and impermeable antiseptic 

 dressing." 



In trees that have little or no resin the 

 wounded part turns brown. This is due to the 

 appearance of a juice that seems to be a mixture 

 of gums and tannin. And the cells of the tree 

 start into activity, proliferating and filling up 

 the cavity with new cells. If the wound be large, 

 these take the form of vegetable cicatricial tissue, 

 which makes a plug and remains as a scar. In the event 

 tliat the wound be confined to one of the limbs of the 

 tree, it not infrequently happens that the limb becomes 

 dead and drops off, the wound healing and leaving the 

 tree nowise the worse for the loss of the absent 

 member. 



Photograph by Mark Daniels. 



A TOWER OF SPRUCE TREE HOUSE 



If this were the entire ruin in the cave, the name of "house" might be justified. 

 There are, however, over a hundred rooms in this ruined village which throws 

 the name of Spruce Tree House into the class of misnomers. The tower here 

 shown bears on its side one of the rare examples of primitive efforts toward 

 mural decoration. The light "T" on the wall in shadow is painted. 



FORESTRY ASSOCIATION OFFICERS 



AT the recent annual meeting of the Northern 

 /-\ .Montana Forestry Association the follow- 

 ing otificers were elected : 



President — C. A. Weil, Eureka, [Montana. 



\'ice-President — W. R. Ballord, Somers, Mon- 

 tana. 



Secretary and Chief Fire Warden — A. E. 

 Boorman, Kalispell, Montana. 



Board of Directors — C. A. Weil, Eureka; W. 

 N. Noffsinger, Kalispell; C. B. Roberts, For- 

 tine ; W. R. Ballord, Somers ; A. E. Boorman. 

 Kalispell; M. Driscoll, Kalispell; C. D. Conrad, 

 Kalispell; John R. Toole, Bonner; John C. Van 

 Hook, Helena, and C. B. March; Kalispell. 



that come to him who travels in the Holy Land. These 

 are all part of the world traveler's field, and are a bless- 

 ing to those who may enjoy them. I resent the fact, 

 however, that those places in the old country have occu- 

 pied a position in the public eye that has excluded the 

 vision of similar wonders in their own covmtry. 



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TREES CURE THEIR OWN WOUNDS 



WHEN a bullet or any foreign body penetrates a 

 tree not sufficiently to kill it, the wound cicatrizes 

 almost in exactly the same way as a wound on 

 the human body heals. If it did not, destructive microbes 

 would enter and cause decay of the tissues. 



"Trees," writes Henri Coupin in Nature, "are very 

 well equipped for healing their wounds, and, more for- 

 tunate than we, an antiseptic dressing is almost auto- 



PUBLIC USE OF NATIONAL FORESTS 



*HERE were hs,:i.l-^ special-use permits in force on 

 the National Forests on June 30 last, according to 

 figures just compiled by the United States Forest 

 Service, to show the varied uses to which the public is 

 putting the Government land involved. The list includes 

 5i) apiaries, 2 brickyards, 31 canneries, 39 cemeteries, 9 

 churches, 1 cranberry marsh, 32 fish hatcheries, 1 golf 

 link, 43 hotels, 1 astronomical observatory, 10 fox and 

 rabbit ranches, 1,085 residences, 74 resorts and club- 

 houses, 3 sanitariums, -jOO sawmills, 163 schools, 9 

 slaughter houses, 57 stores, Ki municipal watersheds, and 

 183 water-power sites, with many other uses. Fees col- 

 lected on 7,895 of the.se i)ermits contributed a total of 

 $175,840.40 to the general Forest revenues, but 10,447 

 of the permits were issued without charge. 



