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THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



I Herman H. Chapman S. T. Dana John E. Rhodes 



Ernest A. Sterling Frederick S. Underhill S. N. Spring 



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March 1917 Vol. 23 CONTENTS No. 279 | 



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Recreational Uses of the National Forests By Henry S. Graves. 133 Forestry for Boys and Girls The Wind and the Trees By 



With eight illustrations. Bristow Adams 166 



Conservation of Game in the National Forests and National $300,000 for Pine Blister Disease, an Effective Quarantine Law 168 



Parks By E. W. Nelson 139 a Feathered Dog in the Manger By Lewis E. Theiss 168 



With ten illustrations. Collecting Tree and Flower Specimens Dr. R. W. Shufeldt .... 1 69 



Sycamore orButtonwood Tree Flower By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt 146 With one illustration. 



With one illustration. 

 Save Us from Invading Pests By J. G. Sanders 147 



National Forests Given Permanence 170 



That Tent in the Tree 171 



With nineteen illustrations. with twQ illustrations . ' 



Birds and the Camera By A. A. Allen 154 In(lia >- Fore t Management 17? 



With six illustrations. lntiia s * orest Management 172 



Lm. -*. < ti m-ii. n u *.. i co Lowest Forest Fire Loss 172 



The Slash Pine By Wilbur R. Mattoon 158 



With seven illustrations. Planting Suggestions for April By J. J. Levison 173 



One of the Undreamt-of Things By Lewis E. Theiss 160 Editorial 176 



B J Efficiency and Economy in Oregon. 



Michigan in the Pine Blister Fight 160 Increasing the Grazing Fees on National Forests. 



Early Spring and Summer Flowers By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. . . 161 BookReviews 178 



With seven illustrations. Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson 180 



Forest Road under Federal Aid Act 165 jr our Colonial Houses By Rawson Woodman Haddon 181 



Boy Scouts Battle Moths 165 With six illustrations. 



Maples Poem by Richard Butler Glaenzer 165 



Current Literature 185 



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SPECIAL OFFER TO MEMBERS ONLY f 



One of the following described books will be presented free of charge to any member of the 

 American Forestry Association who secures ONE NEW subscribing member: 



No. 1 Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs, 465 pages, 275 illustrations of trees, leaves, 

 blossoms, fruits, seeds, area of growth, etc. 



No. 2 Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, 262 pages, 38 colored and 15 other full-page 

 illustrations. 



No. 3 Field Book of American Wild Flowers, 587 pages, 24 colored plates and 215 full-page 



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Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879 

 Copyright. 1917, by the American Forestry Association 



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