"Forest Schools the Foundation of ForesT: Wealth. 1 



THE NORTH WOODS 



Volume II. NOVEMBER, 1913 Number I 1 



A Recorder and Promoter of the Forestry Movement in Minnesota. 



OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE MINNESOTA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 

 AND THE STATE FOREST SERVICE. 



Published Monthly for members of the Minnesota Forestry Association 



Annual Membership Fee $1.00. This includes membership in the Minnesota 



Horticultural Society, entitling every such member to all privileges of 



that organization as well as the Forestry Association. Remittance 



should be made payable to PHIL H. HANSON, Treas., 



care State Forester's Office, State Capitol. 



St. Paul, Minn. 



Entered as Second Class Matter, September 14, 1912, at the Post Office at St 

 Paul, Minnesota, under the Act of August 24, 1912. 



CONTENTS 



The Fire Losses of 1913 ..... 3 



Publicity The Key to the Situation ... 6 



Thrifty Minnesota . . . . . . 11 



The Big Subject at the Conservation Congress . 1 5 



A Need For Trained Men . . . . 19 



Chinese Republic Studies U. S. Forest Methods 20 



Itasca Park Minnesota's Playground . . .21 



A Compliment to the Service .... 25 



The Forest Products Laboratory . . . .26 



The Horticultural Society Meeting ... 29 



The Old Trapper Soliloquizes . . . .30 



