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great work, but to the student in forestry it appears that too much 

 stress is given to the governors' conference as contrasted with the 

 many years of patient work by the real pioneers of conservation 

 in this country. The author does not pretend to be an authority 

 on the various subjects he has discussed and so draws most of 

 his material from the U. S. Geological Survey, Report of the 

 National Conservation Commission, Report of the Inland Water- 

 ways Commission and other publications. 



The chapter on forests is of greatest interest to the forester 

 though it does not contain anything new. It is stated that the 

 principal needs in forestry are reduced waste in cutting, less 

 waste in milling and manufacture, improved methods in turpentin- 

 ing, preservative treatment, utilization of by-products, reduced 

 fire losses, reforestration of burned areas, maintenance of forests 

 over essential areas, stocking of forests so as to produce larger 

 growth, combat of insect pests, substitution of other materials for 

 timber, and reformed tax laws. 



An interesting position is taken by the author in defending the 

 foresters in the present agitation over the relation of forests on 

 stream flow as against Chittenden representing a portion of the 

 engineers and Moore as representing the Weather Bureau. Cita- 

 tions are made from Forest Service Circular No. 176 which was 

 so unceremoniously withdrawn from circulation by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture and from the Report on the Influence of Forests 

 on Climate and on Floods by Moore which is recognized as being 

 more faulty than the report it criticises. 



It is stated that scientific forestry is practiced upon 70 per cent, 

 of the publicly held forests and less than 3 per cent, of private 

 holdings while the first duty of the nation and states is held to be 

 the practice of forestry over their entire holdings, then pass laws 

 requiring the same practice upon private holdings. The waste- 

 fulness in our forests is characterized as unmatched in the history 

 of the world. 



Naturally there are a few errors such as the statement regard- 

 ing forest fires in the Rocky Mountains or Pacific ranges where 

 it claimed that "as you stand on one peak you cannot see its 

 neighbor. The whole region is under a pall of smoke ; and this 

 has gone on year by year, decade after decade," or again "in the 

 pine forests in the north the winter stumps average not less than 

 five feet." A few typographical errors also occur. 



