AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Typical Filipino Houses. 



showing i ii k mixed construction of boards and bamboo with nipa palm thatch. the better houses have 

 ki-; built of wood throughout. the poorer ones are constructed chiefly of palm 

 leaves or grass and bamboo. 



varnish. The damar of commerce is a 



dug from the earth, but the 



which product' it exist in abundance 



today and are adily sending their 



m into the ground for the 



ible benefit of future generations. 



Ex1 mangrove swamps lining 



many of the more sheltered shores for 



distances produce the best of fire 



! and good tan bark. Valuable 



abundant in many of the 



damper foi 



Th< lumbang tree are rich 



in a ble drying oil, utilizable in 



mix'- ] varnishes, and pili 



me an article of 



: are beginning to find 



of the people of 



I know of no other 



and properly 



ler. 



which we 



ourselves have shown towards the con- 

 servation of our own forest resources in 

 the immediate past we should not 

 wonder that the Filipinos, by which 

 term I designate the Christianized- 

 civilized residents of the archipelago, 

 should still be utterly indifferent to the 

 preservation of their forests as a per- 

 manent source of wealth. Much less 

 would a similar attitude on the part of 

 most of the wild tribes afford ground for 

 surprise, and it is indeed extraordinary 

 that two of the latter peoples, the 

 Lepanto Igorots and the Bontoc Igorots, 

 should have been the only inhabitants 

 of the archipelago to appreciate the 

 importance of conserving their forests 

 and should have promulgated and 

 enforced rules to accomplish this result, 

 yet such is the case. 



On my first trip to Cayan, Tadian and 

 1 Lepanto I was struck by the 



