THE AMES FORESTER 



Published Annually by 



The Forestry Club 



of 



IOWA STATE COLLEGE 



Vol. 5 



1917 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



The Philippine Forests M. L. Merritt, U. S. Forest 



Service, Portland, Oregon 5 



Seed Vitality as a Factor in Determining Forest Types 

 J. V. Hofmann, U. S. Forest Service, Washing- 

 ton, D. C 13 



Utilization of Wood Waste Carl A. Kupfer, Forest 

 Examiner, San Francisco, California 17 



The Stumpage Situation in the Pacific Northwest 

 G. C. Morbeck, Associate Professor, Iowa State 

 College 22 



Planting Trees on Kansas Prairies I. T. Bode, in 



charge of Nursery, Fort Hays, Kansas 28 



Scaling and Check Scaling in the U. S. Indian Service 

 Ralph W. Hayes, U. S. Indian Service, Ashland, 

 Wisconsin 33 



The Flora of Lake Vermillion, Minnesota L. H. Pam- 



mel, Professor of Botany, Iowa State College 40 



Carrying Capacity of Ranges in Western United States 

 R. L. Hensel, U. S. Forest Service, Tucson, Ari- 

 zona 45 



A Summer's Work on a Forest Service Experiment Sta- 

 tion Allen S. Henry, Class '17, Iowa State College 50 



Directory of Forestry Alumni 54 



Seven Thousand Miles with Ames Foresters G. B. 

 MacDonald, Professor of Forestry, Iowa State Col- 

 lege 57 



