BOY SCOUTS AND THEIR FRIENDS THE TREES 



From the beginning Scouting has taken 

 boy$ from city streets out into the woods 

 and aimed to develop an interest in all 

 out door life. The trees, especially, are a 

 Boy Scout's good fritnds. He is taught to 

 exercise the greatest care in extinguishing 

 his camp tires so as to run no risk of start- 

 ing a forest fire and otherwise to refrain 

 from doing anything which might in any 

 way injure forest life. But Scouting goes 

 farther than this. It actively employs its 

 members as conservationists. 



.Ml over the country Boy Scouts are be- 

 ing enrolled as aides to Forestry and Park 

 Commissioners in preventing and fighting 

 forest fires, waging war upon the bag 

 worm, the gypsy moth and other tree en- 

 emies, helping enlist popular interest in 

 conservation methods and forest protec- 

 tion generally. In the state of Pennsyl- 

 vania alone it is estimated that thousands 

 of acres of valuable timber land 'have been 

 saved by the eflForts of Scouts. 



In Marion, Indiana, Pontiac, Michigan, 

 Jackson, Mississippi, Terra Haute, Indiana, 

 Riverside, California, and many other 



By E. S. Martin 



THE XIGHTM.'\RE 

 The Revenge of the Trees 



cities Scouts have made city wide surveys, 

 locating and tabulating species and condi- 

 tion of trees, in co-operation with City 

 Planing Commissions and other agencies. 

 During the war the Boy Scouts of Amer- 

 ica located for government use large quan- 

 tities of standing black walnut timber and 

 promised to do their utmost to see that 

 any depletion of the species was supplied 

 by re-planting. This pledge lead to Scouts 

 undertaking an extensive service in the 

 planting of trees of many species, which 

 has been going on ever since. In city after 

 city they have taken the lead or worked 

 with others in planting "memorial trees" 

 in honor of the soldier dead, over 20,000 

 such trees being planted by them during 

 the past two years. 



Every tree is a matter of interest to a 

 Boy Scout, a friend to be studied and rev- 

 erenced and protected to the utmost of his 

 power and every Scout believes that. 



"He that planteth a tree is a servant of 

 God." 



PLEASANT THINGS TAKEN FROM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 



"Your valued magazine is much appreci- 

 ated and I hope will be a power for con- 

 servation of our forests." 



Alfred W. Gibbs. 



"I am sure the bulletins which you sent 

 will be of very great assistance to us in 

 preparing our outline of work to be used 

 in connection with our public schools." 



E. N. COLLETTE. 



"Usually, especially these days, one can- 

 not send remittances in various directions 

 without letting them go with considerable 

 reluctance, but there is one remittance 

 that I make and that I am glad to make, 

 one in which I take genuine pleasure, and 

 that is for the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, only regretting that I could not make 

 it a hundred times as large and thus do 

 more to help along the work." 



D. M. RiORDAN. 



"I am a student in the New York State 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse, N. Y., 

 and find many articles in .AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY which are of value to me in 

 my studies. I cannot praise too highly the 

 work which your paper and your Associa- 

 tion is doing." 



John G. Caulkins. 



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 B. H. Stone. 



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 for the coming year, and wish to state that 

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Carrie L. Engau. 



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 John A. Doelle. 



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 time in the near future." 



A. E. Waters. 



"The magazine is a delight to peruse 

 and you deserve the thanks of every na- 

 ture lover for giving us such a publication." 

 H. B. Decker. 



"I do not know what we would have 

 done without AMERICAN FORESTRY. 

 It has enabled us to emphasize the advan- 

 tages gained to a country by a proper for- 

 estry organization." 



V. B. Trappe (Australia). 



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 welfare of the Association." 



P. D. Hanson. 



"I have been taking the AMERICAN 

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 and it is very interesting and instructive." 

 Harry E. Dobbins. 



"The June issue of AMERICAN FOR- 

 ESTRY is perhaps the most attractive issue 

 of that publication we have ever seen and 

 Supervisor McCain's beautifully illustrated 

 article on 'The Lofty Tetons' is surely one 

 of the best features of the issue." Daily 

 News Bulletin of the Intermountain Dis- 

 trict of the Forest Service. 



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 come." 



E. L. SCOVELL. 



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Miss Katherine Pettit. 



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 D. W. Babcock. 



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