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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Not long ago, shortly after the monument was finished, 

 a tourist asked her guide what the structure was. He 

 told her that it was on the spot where the last of the 

 Aztecs, a nomadic group since lost, had sacrificed an 

 American officer to their gods. She seemed to sense a 

 certain tendency toward anachronism. When she read 

 the tablet she cried, "Why, this is to Major John Wesley 

 Powell, who discovered the canyon." Unabashed, he 

 replied, "Sure, he discovered the canyon. That's why 

 they killed him." 



Perhaps it is not right to write of the Grand Canyon 

 in a light or bantering way, but then, what is one to do? 

 No words can describe it. To one who has seen it any 



HOPI INDIANS READY FOR A DANCE 



Every night in the Hopi House close to the El Tovar Hotel the Indians 

 give their folk dances for the visitors and are the chief attraction 

 of the place when the night comes and the Canyon is robed in dark- 

 ness. 



attempt at description seems puerile, while to those who 

 have not visited the place serious attempts sound ridicu- 

 lous. It is a place that defies superlatives. It is the 

 most amazing spectacle on earth. Go and see it, and 

 then listen to yourself as you describe it to your friends. 



$10,000 FOR FORESTRY WORK 



THE Virginia legislature has appropriated $10,000 

 a year for the operation of the State Forestry De- 

 partment under the operation of State Forester 

 R. C. Jones. This is the first appropriation ever made 

 by Virginia for forestry work. 



SAMPLE COPIES OF AMERICAN FORESTRY 



MEMBERS of the American Forestry Association 

 having friends interested in trees, woodlands 

 and forests are urged to send their names to 

 the association, and a sample copy of the magazine, 

 American Forestry, will be sent to them with the com- 

 pliments of the member. 



A TREE WITHIN A TREE 



HERE is a tree growing within a tree. The burned- 

 out old stump of a goosequill redwood (Sequioa 

 semperviren) is serving the excellent purpose 

 of protecting its youthful successor from the winds. The 

 stump and the young tree are on the property of the 

 Glen Blair Lumber Company in Medocino County, Cali- 

 fornia. While such a condition is not uncommon, it 



Photograph by S. M. Bunnell, Pasadena, Cal. 



GROWING WITHIN ANOTHER TREE 



A young sequoia in Mendocino County, California, which selected an 

 unusual place to grow and is making headway because it is so well 

 sheltered from the winds. 



is not often found so located that it can be readily pho- 

 tographed. The young tree within the stump, like others 

 at the sides and back of the stump, is a shoot from the 

 roots of the tree which formerly stood there. The 

 original was about 11 feet in diameter and had been 

 broken off in some storm and later burned. 



