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CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1909 



THE THREE SISTERS Frontispiece 



WORK ON A NATIONAL FOREST No. 10 By Charles Howard Shinn 187 



ETHICS OF THE FOREST By Alexandre Erixon 197 



IN THE GIANT FOREST OF THE SIERRAS Poem By Alexander Blair Thaw. . . . 202 



THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE IRRIGATED DISTRICTS By G. E. Browne.. 203 



FOREST PRESERVATION AND ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT OF WATER 



PO\VER By Allen Hollis 214 



THE CONSERVATION OF WORLD RESOURCES By Treadwell Cleveland, Jr 218 



A WORD FROM MRS. WILLIAMS 222 



THE "DISMAL SCIENCE" DECADENT By Thomas Elmer Will 223 



CHESTNUT TIMBER GOING TO WASTE By Robert T. Morris 226 



ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS OF THE A. F. A 227 



THE FIRST TREE Poem By Hazel Alma Banks Pierce 229 



EDITORIAL- 



Defeat of Appalachian Legislation A National The North American Conservation Conference.. 234 



Loss 230 Conservation of the Resources of the Planet . . . 235 



Do They Represent the West ? 231 Private "Rights" in Public Lands 237 



The Forest Service in Congress 232 The Fight Just Begun 238 



Public Advantage from Reclamation 233 



.\T.\VS AND NOTES- 



Wisconsin Gets Forest Laboratory 239 What a Timber Patch Can Do 243 



Roads for National Forests 239 Forest Conservation in Hawaii 243 



English Forest and Land Policy 239 War on the Prairie Dog. . 244 



A German on International Conservation 240 Timber Supply of United States 244 



Kansas Catalpas Pay 240 Effect of Deforestation 24~> 



Draining the Everglades 241 Improved Methods of Turpentining Bring Favor- 

 Opening of the Payette-Boise Project 241 able Results 



Progress on the Uncompahgre Project 241 China Begins Education in Forestry 246 



Lands Restored to the Public Domain 241 Children Plant Trees 



Mrs. Fairbanks for Conservation 242 Utilizing Natural Gas 247 



Regulations Applying to Government Irrigated Increased Need for Private Forestry 248 



Lands 242 Condition of Forest Resources.. 24"- 



INDEX FOR CONSERVATION FOR 1908 - 248 



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