20 Cents 



THE 



FORESTER 



Vol. VII 



MAY, 1901 



No. 5 



CONTENTS : 



ORDINARY MOUNTAIN FORM OF LODGEPOLE PINE Frontispiece 



THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF SILVICULTURE. HENRY S. GRAVES (Illustrated) 105 



Direcior of the Yale Forest School. 



AN EXAMPLE OF SLOW GROWTH OF LODGEPOLE PINE. C. S. CRANDALL (Illustrated) 112 



Division of Forestry 



THE RUBBER INDUSTRY OF COSTA RICA. H. STUART HOTCHKISS (Illustrated) 116 



EDITORIALS 



Growth of Interest in Forestry. The Fire Question. Forfeited Lands for Forest Purposes 

 in Minnesota I2 



NEWS, NOTES, AND COMMENT 



The Forest Fire Season. Burnt White Pine Forest, Priest River Forest Reserve. Mining 

 and Forestry. Agitation of Forestry in New Jersey. A Burnt Pine Forest, Southern 

 New Jersey. View of the North Platte River in Wyoming. Irrigation and Forest 

 Preservation. The Sand Hilis of Nebraska. A Black Locust Plantation in Kansas. Ten- 

 nessee and the Appalachian Forest Reserve. Summer Meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association. Dead, Down and Green Timber Cutting. 122 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS .130 



Published by 



The American Forestry Association 



Lancaster, Pa., and 



Washington, D. C. 



Entered at the Post Office of Lancaster, Pa., as second-class matter. 



