XABLK OF CONTENTS. 



News Items 73 



Why Miners Should Join the American Forestry Association 75 



Government Forests and Their Preservation 76 



Forest Administration : Mining in Forest Reserves 79 



Forest Policy 81 



A Reasonable Policy 84 



The Gila River Forest Reserve 85 



The Sheep Industry in Tulare County, California 86 



Forest Management 86 



Forest Utilization: 



Scarcity of Mine Timbers 87 



The Diversion of Spruce 88 



Mine Props 89 



B Lumbering in the Northwest 90 



State Associations: 



Southern California 91 



Indiana , 92 



Recent Legislation: 



Minnesota 92 



Indiana Forest Tax Legislation 93 



A New National Park 94 



Educational 94 



Editorial: 



New Members Life Member 95 



Recent Publications 96 



THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



Organized April, 1882. 

 Incorporated January, 1897. 



OFFICERS FOR 1899. 



President. 

 Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 

 First Vice President. Corresponding Secretary. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow. F. H. Newell. 



Recording Secretary and Treasurer. 

 George P. Whittlesey. 

 Directors. 

 James Wilson. Charles C. Binney. Edward A. Bowers. Frederick V. Covillk. 



B. E. Fernow. Henry Gannett. Arnold Hague. F. H. Newell. 



George W. McLamahan. Gifford Pinchot. George P. Whittlesey. 



Vice Presidents. 



Sir H. G. Joly de Lotbiniere, Pointe Platon, 

 Quebec. 



Charles Mohr, Mobile, Ala. 

 Charles C. Georgeson, Sitka, Alaska. 



D. M. Riordan, Flagstaff, Ariz. 

 Thomas C. McRae, Prescott, Ark. 

 Abbott Kinney, Lamanda Park, Cal. 



E. T. Ensign, Colorado Springs, Colo. 

 Robert Brown, New Haven, Conn. 

 Wm. M. Canby, Wilmington, Del. 



A. V. Clubbs, Pensacola, Fla. 

 R. B. Reppard, Savannah, Ga. 

 'J. M. Coulter, Chicago, 111. 

 James Troop, Lafayette, Ind. 

 Thos. H. MacBride, Iowa City, Iowa. 

 J. S. Emery, Lawrence, Kans. 

 John R. Proctor, Frankfort, Ky. 

 Lewis Johnson, New Orleans, La. 

 John W. Garrett, Baltimore, Md. 

 John E. Hobbs. North Berwick, Me. 

 J. D. W. French, Boston, Mass. 

 W. J. Beal, Agricultural Cc^cgo, Mich. 

 C. C. Andrews, St. Paul, Minn. 

 William Trelease, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Charles E. Bessey, Lincoln, Neb. 



Wm. E. Chandler, Concord, N. H. 



John Gifford, Princeton, N. J. 



Edward F. Hobart, Santa Fe, N. M. 



Warren Higley, New York, N. Y. 



J. A. Holmes, Raleigh. N. C. 



W. W. Barrett, Church's Ferry, N. D. 



Reuben H. Warder, North Bend, Ohio, 



William T. Little, Perry, Okla. 



E. W. Hammond, Wimer, Ore. 



J. T. Rothrock, West Chester, Pa. 



H. W. French, Manila, P. I. 



H. G. Russell, E. Greenwich, R. I. 



H. A. Green, Chester, S. C. 



Thomas T. Wright, Nashville. Tenn. 



W. Goodrich Jones, Temple, Texas. 



C. A. Whiting, Salt Lake, Utah. 

 Redfield Proctor, Proctor, Vt. 



D. O. Nourse, Blacksburg, Va. 

 Edmund S. Meany, Seattle, Wash. 

 A. D. Hopkins, Morgantown, W. Va. 

 H. C. Putnam, Eau Claire, Wis. 

 Eiwc-od Mead, Cheyenne, Wyo. 

 George W. McLanahan, Washington, D. C 

 John Craig, Ottawa, Ont. 



Wm. Little, Montreal, Quebec. 



