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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A TORREY PINE CONE. 



Drawn by E. Roorback. 



be kept inviolate. To be carefully 

 preserved from civiliaztion ruthless ad- 

 vance. To be left unhindered of its 

 own charming, spontaneous way. No 

 close cropped shrubs, no stiffly bordered 

 paths, no star and anchor beds of exotic 

 hot-house aliens will ever disfigure its 

 natural beauty. There 'is a city forester 

 in charge who sees to it that they are let 

 most gloriously alone, that thoughtless 

 folk do not chop them into firewood, 

 nor curio hunters carry away their 

 patiently ripened cones. But nature 

 will continue to train the vines, the 

 winds to prune the trees, the flowers to 

 congregate in informal tangles according 

 to their own delightful vagaries. This 

 little wild park sheltering the last 

 remnants of a vanishing race, is an 

 immense asset to the city of San Diego 

 and is a living monument to the far- 

 seeing city authorities who have legis- 



THE ROOTS, IN SEARCH OF MOISTURE, SOMETIMES 



DRIVE AWAY THE CLIFFS BUT THE TREE 



HOLDS IN MYSTERIOUS WAY TO THE 



POOR SOIL, AND SUCCEEDS IN 



RIPENING ITS CONES. 



Photo by E. Roorback. 



lated it into permanent safety. It is 

 beyond the despoiling reach of investors 

 and promotors. It will never be sub- 

 divided into home lots or leased to 

 factory sites. Everyone in America 

 interested in the conservation of our 

 rapidly vanishing wild places must 

 rejoice to know of San Diego's con- 

 siderate care of this accessible, beautiful 

 wilderness of untouched growth. 



A rancher has applied for the rental of 320 acres on the Pike national forest, Colorado, to be used 

 in connection with other private land, for raising elk as a commercial venture. 



The Government has just sold 43,000 cords of cedar wood for shingles from the Washington national 

 forest. The shingles manufactured from this wood, laid six inches to the weather, would cover 

 square miles of roof. 



The navy department has asked the forest service to investigate guijo, a Philippine wood, for 

 possible use in decking boats and ships. Longleaf pine, sugar maple, and beech are the domestic woods 

 most used for decks. 



