

AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underhill 



December 1916. Vol. 22 



CONTENTS 



No. 276 



The Red Spruce Identification and Characteristics By P. L. 



Buttrick 705 



With ten illustrations. 



Playgrounds on National Forests 712 



With ten illustrations. 



Some Problems With Everyday Birds By A. A. Allen 718 



With ten illustrations. 



Rocky Mountain National Park By Mark Daniels 724 



With five illustrations. 



Little-Known Forest Products 730 



Studying Plants in Winter By R. W. Shufeldt 731 



With six illustrations. 



Record for Rapid Growth By D. T. Mason 737 



With one illustration. 



The Ancient Cedars of Lebanon By Guy E. Mitchell 738 



With two illustrations. 



Another Imported Tree Disease 739 



Explanation of The G-Trees 740 



With four illustrations. 

 First Aid to Wounded Trees By J. J. Levison 741 



With two illustrations. 



Forestry for Boys and Girls By Bristow Adams 744 



Common Sense and Christmas Trees. 

 Use of Blight Killed Chestnut 746 



With one illustration. 



A Petrified Stump 746 



With one illustration. 



Great Forestry Conference and Annual Meeting 747 



The Pine Blister Disease 748 



With two illustrations. 



The National Forest Enterprises By Hon. David Houston 750 



Editorial 752 



Forests and Climate. 



The Lesson of the Pine Blister Canker. 



Great Friend of Forestry Dead. 



Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson 755 



Current Literature 757 



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