CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1909 



COMMISSIONERS TO NORTH AMERICAN CONSERVATION CONFERENCE 



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 JAMES WILSON, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE By Thomas Elmer Will.... 125 



THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY By Frederick Haynes Newell 134 



THE MANGYANES: A PROBLEM OF FOREST PROTECTION 



By Melvin L. Merritt 139 



THE CONQUEST OF THE COLORADO By C. J. Blancharcl 143 



EARLY CUTTINGS IN THE LODGEPOLE PINE TYPE OF THE ROCKY 



MOUNTAINS By E. R. Hodson 148 



TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ASSOCIATION Concluded 



Forest Taxation 152 Flood versus Drought 155 



Profit in Forests 154 Women ns Workers 156 



A Free Hand 155 Report of Committee on Nominations 156 



PUBLISHERS' NOTICE 158 



WANTED: BACK NUMBERS 158 



THE NORTH AMERICAN CONSERVATION CONFERENCE 



By Treadwell Cleveland, Jr 159 



DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES 164 



EDITORIAL- 



Plant Trees 169 Funds for Conservation 172 



The President Attacks the Water-Power Mo- Forestry and Dry Farming 173 



nopoly 170 Forestry and Unemployment 17 f 



Why Governments Should Act 171 



APPALACHIAN LEGISLATION KILLED 175 



THE ATTITUDE OF THE WEST TOWARD THE EASTERN FORESTS 176 



CALAVERAS BIG TREES SAVED 177 



NEWS AND NOTES- 



Floods in the Congo 178 Mahogany Among Hardwoods 181 



The Railroad Must Pay Fire Damages 17S Woodpeckers Destroy Poles 182 



The Joint Committee on Cooperation 178 Tree Planting in Kansas 182 



State Control of Forest Fires 178 Goats Improving Forests 182 



Secretary Wilson to Continue in the Cabinet... 178 American and German Forests 182 



To Prevent Fraud on the Public Domain 178 Wood Preservation in Louisiana 183 



To Conserve Historic Data 179 Use of National Forest Resources 183 



Rivers and Harbors Bill 179 Irrigation Scheme in Spokane 183 



Waste of Michigan Lands 179 Dams and Floods 183 



For Healthy Fruit Trees 179 Irrigation in Okanogan County 1S4 



Waterways Treaty Between U. S. and Great The Twin Falls Irrigation Project 184 



Britain 180 Bleeding Southern Pines 184 



State and Local Receipts from National Forests 180 A Farm Raising Timber 184 



Yale Forest School 180 Asparagus Under Irrigation 184 



Railroads Seeking Tie Supply 181 Forest Protection and Management 184 



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