FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



THOMAS ELMER WILL 

 WM. CANFIELD LEE 



Editor 

 Associate Editor 



CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1908 



EDITORIAL 



Ostriches vs. Wise Men ............................. 61 



The Pressing Need .................................... 62 



What Shall We Do? ................................. ttt 



The Task and the Tools 

 Equip the Association 

 Brace Up Your Conjaessman 



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 Practical Forestry. .................................... 65 



NEWS AND NOTES 



The Annual Meeting.. .............. , ........ ....... 66 



Freight Rates and Tree Cutting ............... 6 t; 



What the Governor of Ohio Says. ............ 67 



Stay the Axe, Then Guide It. .................. 67 



Roosevelt Pleased at New Organization... 68 



An Exasperating Anomaly ....................... 68 



National Park on the Hudson .................. 68 



The Grand Canvon Set Aside... 69 



Pinnacles Made National Monument... 



New Mineral Found in Alaska 



Fungus Checks Bark Beetle 



Insects Are Rivals of Fire 



Shipworms Ruin Northwest Lumber 



Organization of Alabama Forestry Com- 

 mission 



Professor Winkenwerder of Colorado 



Professor Scott of Iowa 



Antioch Summer School of Forestry 



Massachusetts Agrieultural College. 



Class in National Forest Management 



Children and Civic Betterment 



Mr. Mills's Splendid Work 



Good Roads Urged by the Grange 



Finances of Roadside Trees 



Paying Crop for Swamp Lands 



Immense Number of Boxes 



Planting Thousands of Pine Seeds . 



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DESOLATION IN DALMATIA. By Florence Keen . 



A LETTER TO OUR MEMBERS . 



DESECRATION. (Poem.) By Harold Trowbridge Puleifer 



NATIONAL FORESTS AND PUBLIC OPINION. By Lydia Adams-Williams 



HEARING ON THE APPALACHIAN BILL 



What New England is Doing ... ... 



Great Activity in the South .... . 



Help from Other Sources ......... 



THE TEMPLES EAST AND WEST. (Poem.) By the Lumberman Poet 

 FOREST PERPETUATION AND WATER SUPPLIES. (Ill unrated.) 

 THE PEACE OF QUIET AISLES. (Poem). By Jane Taaffe . 



THE MINNESOTA FOREST SCHOOL AT ITASCA PARK. By E. G. 

 Cheyney. (Illustrated.) .......... 



MILLIONS FOR TRIBUTE, BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR DEFENSE. 

 By F. M. Eaton. (Illuxtmf,,/.) 



REDWOOD CANYON DEEDED TO UNITED STATES. 



NATIONAL DRAINAGE CONGRESS. (lUustrated) 



WITH MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS 



U. S. FOREST SERVICE . 



U. S. RECLAMATION SERVICE . 



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