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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ada, conferring with those in charge of the plans for the 

 home food production work. There should be no 

 limit to the war gardener's activity. As President 

 Wilson said in regard to the number of American soldiers 

 who are to go to France, there must be no limit, there 

 must be enough to win, whatever that number be. "I 

 have asked Congress to name no limit," he said, "be- 

 cause Congress intends, I am sure, as we all intend, that 

 every ship that can carry men or supplies shall go laden 

 upon every voyage with every man and every supply 

 she can carry." 



The men will be there and ready. The people of the 

 I'nited States, those of us who stay at home, must help 

 to furnish the supplies which are to go on those ships. 

 The war gardeners must help to supply the food, which 

 will be needed in ever and ever increasing quantities as 

 the ships continue to go laden upon every voyage with 



every man they can carry. Food must follow the flag, 

 and trailing those men must go long stretches of smoke 

 from other ships laden with supplies. The soldiers are 

 helping to feed themselves. They are as ready to dig 

 garden trenches as to dig the other trench, which is part 

 of their job. 



Reports to the National War Garden Commission from 

 all over the United States are most encouraging. They 

 show that the war gardeners, the home "Soldiers of the 

 Soil," are doing a wonderful work and that they are per- 

 forming a patriotic task of which they can ever be proud. 

 But let the inspiration of the boys at the camps raising 

 their own peas and beans and potatoes be an added in- 

 centive and make every war gardener dig just a little 

 longer and go "over the top" to a glorious finish. 

 Let's 7vin the next war now. 



NEW NATIONAL FORESTS IN THE EAST 



PRESIDENT WILSON has issued a -proclamation 

 establishing three new * National Forests in the 

 East the White Mountain, in Maine and New 

 Hampshire, the Shenandoah, in Virginia and West Vir- 

 ginia, and the Natural Bridge in Virginia. 



Proclaiming the Forests is the final step in carrying 

 out the law for building up eastern National Forests 

 through the purchase of lands in the mountains. Ever 

 since the law was passed in 1911 the Government has 

 been engaged in acquiring lands about the headwaters 

 of the principal rivers, both in New England and in the 

 Southern Appalachians. As the lands are bought or 

 contracted for they are put under administration as 

 "Purchase Areas" pending the time when their accumu- 

 lation has reached a point justifying the proclamation 

 which gives the lands their final status. The Pisgah 

 National Forest, in North Carolina, and the Alabama 

 National Forest, in Alabama, are the only eastern areas 

 which had received this status before the new proclama- 

 tions were issued. 



The White Mountain National Forest is located jn 

 Grafton, Carroll and Coos counties, New Hampshire, and 

 Oxford county, Maine. The Government has actually 

 taken title to about 267,000 acres and in addition about 

 124,000 acres more have been approved for purchase, 

 making a total of about 391,000 acres under Federal 

 protection. This Forest protects in part the water- 

 sheds of the Androscoggin, Saco, Connecticut and Am- 

 monoosuc rivers. The White Mountain region, long 

 famous as one of the most important recreation grounds 



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of the Nation and located as it is in close proximity to 

 the most densely populated portion of the country, has 

 great value not only for the protection of streamflow 

 and the production of timber, but also as a public play- 

 ground and is administered with a view to its use for all 

 three purposes. 



The Shenandoah National Forest is situated in Rock- 

 ingham, Augusta, Bath, and Highland counties, Virginia, 

 and Pendleton county, West Virginia. The Government 

 has acquired to date slightly in excess of 100,000 acres, 

 and an additional area of approximately 65,000 acres has 

 been approved for purchase, making a total of approxi- 

 mately 165,000 acres under Federal protection. The 

 Forest is for the most part on the watershed of the 

 Shenandoah River and it also protects a portion of the 

 watersheds of the Potomac and the James. On the area 

 and still intact are trench systems constructed during the 

 Civil War under the supervision of Stonewall Jackson. 



The Natural Bridge National Forest is situated in 

 Rockingham, Nelson, Amherst, Botetourt and Bedford 

 counties, Virginia. The Federal Government has actu- 

 ally acquired title to a little over 73,000 acres, and an 

 additional area of approximately 29,000 acres has been 

 approved for purchase. The Forest, which protects a 

 portion of the watershed of the James River, does not 

 include the Natural Bridge, but this scenic feature is 

 within three or four miles of the boundary. It is ex- 

 pected that visitors to the region will take advantage of 

 the splendid opportunities which the Forest affords for 

 recreation and outdoor life in the mountains. 



CENATOR Chamberlain of Oregon has introduced 

 ^ in the Senate a bill adding certain lands to the Minam 

 National Forest. These lands are heavily timbered and 

 control the outlet to about 200,060,000 feet of timber in- 

 side the forest. The local public desires them for the 

 reason that they practically control a stock driveway 

 necessary to reach the National Forest range. 



rpHROUGH the death of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 

 * of Indiana, conservation has lost a staunch friend. 

 Mr. Fairbanks was ardently interested in the progress 

 of forestry. He founded the Indiana State Forestry 

 Association, and so solidified and strengthened forestry 

 interests in that state, and he was for many years an 

 active member of the American Forestry Association, 



