AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 

 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Undbrhill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



January, 1916. Vol. 22 



CONTENTS 



No. 265 



The American White Oak By S. B. Detwiler 3 



With five illustrations. 



Commercial Uses of White Oak 6 



With six illustrations. 



The Sequoia National Park By Mark Daniels 12 



With twelve illustrations. 



Fighting Moths with Parasites 21 



National Parks as an Asset By Hon. Franklin K. Lane 22 



With two illustrations. 



The Forests of Alaska By Henry S. Graves 24 



With fifteen illustrations. 



Growing from the Rock 37 



With one illustration. 



Coloring in Redwood Cones By O. E. Jennings 37 



The Bird Department By A. A. Allen, Ph.D 38 



With six illustrations. 



Gigantic Stone Buffalo Skull 4q 



With one illustration. 



500,000 Pines Prospering By Joseph C. Mason 41 



With four illustrations. 



Ornamental and Shade Trees By Harold J. Neale 42 



With two illustrations. 



A Recommendation By Hon. David F. Houston 45 



With one illustration. 



The Children's Department By Bristow Adams 46 



Further Appropriations Needed 48 



With two illustrations. 



Editorial The Woodlot and the Smith-Lever Bill 51 



Canadian Department By Ell wood Wilson 52 



Current Literature 54 



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