CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1909 



COVER DESIGN By Charles E. Cartwright. 



MOUTH OF THE MIAMI RIVER ......................................... Frnntispiccc 



THE EVERGLADES OE FLORIDA AND THE LANDES OF FRANCE By 



Dr. John Gifford ................................................................ 45 ? 



OPENING OF THE COEUR D'ALENE RESERVATION .......................... 404 



INFLUENCE OF TAXATION ON FOREST DISTRIBUTION By E. M. Hoover.. 4 <,<, 

 STATE FOREST POLICY By Herman Haupt Chapman .......................... 47.3 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DYNAMIC GEOGRAPHER By Frank Rufliiigtnn 



Vrooman ......................................................................... 48 ? 



THE EQUALIZING INFLUENCE OF FORESTS ON THE FLOW OF STREAMS 

 AND THEIR VALUE AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING NAVIGATION By 

 George F. Swain, LL.D ......................................................... 4,S-) 



A CHAPTER OF CONSERVATION HISTORY By Thomas Elmer Will .......... 495 



EDITORIAL- 



Tlie Mill Tax for Forestry ..................... 49$ The Riot of the Rivers ....................... r,u; 



Legislative Support for Student Labor .......... 498 Building a Nation .............................. 502 



The Washington Forest-fire Association ......... 498 The Conservation of Human Resources ......... 50;? 



The Destruction of Fish ....................... 490 Where Is Conservation to Stop? ................ 504 



Conservation of Soil Resources ................. 499 Governor Fernald's Proposal ................... 505 



Dry-land Farming .............................. 500 



NEWS AND NOTES- 



Canadian Forestry Association Meeting ........ 506 Conservation of Water Power and Public Land.. .".12 



To Protect New Hampshire Forests from Fire.. 500 Irrigation Desired for Eastern States... 512 



A State Forester .............................. 50(i Progress in Reclamation Work.. 512 



England's Progressive Policy ................... 507 Five Billions for Development . . . . . 513 



Women Saving the Big Trees .................. 507 Five Billions for Irrigation ............... , 514 



Fall River to Acquire Woodlands ............. 507 Bond Issues for River Improvements.... , 514 



New Forest Assistants and Their Work ........ 508 The River as a Carrier ....................... r>ir, 



Berlin Spends $10.000.000 to Buy a Forest.... 508 The Lesson of the "Soo" ................ . 51." 



Heliographs to Be Used on National Forests ..... 508 Mt. Pocono Meeting of Pennsylvania Forest ry 



Biltmore School to Germany .................... 508 Association ........... .... 510 



Forestry in Antioch College .................... 509 Forest Conference in the White Mountains ...... ."Hi 



Forestry Department of the University of New Forestry Legislation in Pennsylvania.... 510 



Brunswick ....................... . ......... 509 Progress in New Hampshire ................... 517 



Legislation in Minnesota ....................... 500 What a State Might Do ....................... 517 



Minnesota Out of Conservation Plans ........... 510 America's Awful Fire Losses ................... 51 8 



Railroads for Conservation ..................... 510 The Di/ath of Colonel Fox .......................... >l s 



High W 7 ater in the Missouri Valley ............ 511 Austin Cary Succeeds Colonel Fox ................ .Ms 



America's Greatness ........................... 51] The National Irrigation Congress ........ ..M* 



BACK NUMBERS WANTED ...................................................... 518 



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