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| AMERICAN FORESTRY | 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY PRICE 40c A COPY $4.00 A YEAR | 



May, 1921 CONTENTS Vol. 27, No. 329 1 



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PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS FOREST PROTECTION WEEK 274 



EDITORIAL 275 



FORESTRY FROM THE AIR By Stanley Frost 278 



With two illustrations. 



THE GENTLE WOOD Poem by Clinton Scollard 280 



FOREST RECREATION DEPARTMENT TRAILS TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS By Arthur H.Carhart 281 



With sixteen illustrations and five maps. 

 HOW SCHOOL CHILDREN STUDY TREES By Susan S. Alburtis 291 



With thirteen illustrations. 

 LIFE IN PONDS AND MARSHES By R. W. Shufeldt 299 



With ten illustrations. 



ANATOLIA A COUNTRY WITHOUT WOOD By Frances L. Garside 306 



THE FOREST RANGER Poem By Charles Howard Shinn 306 



FOREST GUIDE DEPARTMENT Solan L. Parkes, Editor 307 



With four illustrations. 

 DEFECTIVE SHADE TREES MENACE LIFE By T. E. Snyder 309 



With six illustrations. 



AMERICA MUST REFOREST 311 



HALL OF FAME FOR TREES 312 



With nine illustrations. 



BULLETIN OF ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES FOR APRIL 316 



SPRINGTIME IN THE WOODS By A. Brooker Klugh 317 



With five illustrations. 

 PAPER MAKING IN JAPAN By J. Kobayashi 320 



With two illustrations. 

 THE MARVELOUS JOURNEY OF A DOUGLAS FIR LOG By Francis Dickie 321 



With one illustration. 



FORESTRY EDITORIAL DIGEST 322 



IDENTIFICATION OF OAK WOODS 324 



NEWSPAPERS FOR FORESTRY 325 



NATIONAL HONOR ROLL, MEMORIAL TREES 326 



BOOK REVIEWS 330 



STATE NEWS 331 



CENTRAL STATES FORESTRY CONFERENCE 333 



FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 335 



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Publication Office, 522 East Street, Baltimore, Md. Headquarters Office, 1214 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Postoffice at Baltimore, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at 



special rate of postage provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized Februa.-y 27, 1920. 



Copyright, 1921, by The American Forestry Association. 



