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THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



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ALONG THE BEAUTIFUL TRAIL TO SWIFT 

 CURRENT PASS, SHOWING SWIFT CURRENT 

 GLACIER, IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MONTANA 



February 1920 CONTENTS Vol. 26, No. 314 



Editorial: A National Forestry Policy 67 



Light Burning a Mistake 68 



Increase in Forest Research Necessary 69 



Tree Seeds Presented to Our Allies 71 



With two illustrations. 



The Trees of France Poem by Elizabeth T. McGaw 73 



Reclamation Work a Vital Forestry Problem: By R. S. Maddox 74 



With five illustrations. 



Natural Regeneration of French Forests By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr 77 



With ten illustrations. 



The Annual Meeting 82 



With one illustration. 



Discovery of Sugar on Douglas Fir By Francis Dickie 84 



With one illustration. 



A Forest Fire 86 



The Winter Aspect of Trees By R. N. Davis 87 



With ten illustrations. 



Intercollegiate Forestry Clubs Meet 91 



Ticks and Timber By Austin Cary 92 



With five illustrations. 



Paper Famine if Forests are Wasted 94 



Forests in Japan 95 



The Opossums By Dr. R. W, Shufeldt 96 



With eight illustrations. 



Forestry in Great Britain 101 



Mammy Cottontail and Trouble-II A Fight With the Horned Owl 



By Allen Chaffee 103 



With one drawing by Peter Da Ru. 



Bird Visitors from the Northland By A. Brooker Klugh 104 



With two illustrations. 



New Orleans Children Build Bird Houses Pictorial page 106 



Protection of Birds By Julia Force 107 



With one illustration. 



The Oyster Tree 108 



Indiana's Prize Winning Forestry Essays 109 



With four illustrations. 



Memorial Trees Our Heroes' Hall of Fame 111 



With four illustrations. 



National Honor Roll, Memorial Trees 114 



Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson 115 



Forestry Digest 116 



History of Johhny Appleseed 117 



Dr. Schenck Writes from Germany 118 



National Forest Highways 118 



Seeking Turpentine in the West 118 



State News 119 



Pigeons for Forest Fire Fighting 122 



Book Reviews 121 



Forest School Notes 125 



Preserving Poles and Posts 126 



Bouquets 127 



Publication Office, 522 East Street, Baltimore, Maryland. 

 Headquarters Office, Maryland Building, Washington, D. C. 



Application for entry as second-class matter at the Post Office at Baltimore is pending. 

 Entered as second-class mail matter December 24. 1909, at the Post Office at Washington. 

 under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright by the American Forestry Association. 

 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of 

 October 3, 1917, authorized July 11, 1918. 



