SEEING THE GERMAN FORESTS 

 En route to Trippstadt to see American white pine forests 120 years old 



FORTYxFIVE AMERICANS IN THE 

 FORESTS OF GERMANY 



By HOWARD R. KRINBILL 



GERMANY, the foremost military 

 power and the third naval power 

 of the world, has been invaded 

 by forty-five Americans. During the 

 past winter, the forests of the kingdoms 

 of Prussia and Bavaria and Wurttem- 

 berg and the grand duchies of Baden 

 and Hessen have been penetrated by 

 these young men, sons of American 

 lumbermen and forest owners, students 

 of the Biltmore Forest School, in win- 

 ter quarters at Darmstadt, Germany. 



Few Americans realize the advan- 

 tages to be secured in Germany by the 

 forestry student. No musician under- 

 estimates the value of a study trip to 

 the land of Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, 

 Weber, Meyerbeer, and Mendelssohn. 

 No artist hesitates to visit the home of 

 Diirer and Holbein. No architect 

 slights an opportunity to behold Co- 



logne. No student of German con- 

 siders his time wasted in the land of 

 Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe. Simi- 

 larly, the forestry student is attracted 

 to German soil because it became the 

 birthplace of forestry a century ago 

 through the pioneer foresters Hartig, 

 Cotta, and Hundeshagen. 



To-day, the German forests are man- 

 aged vmder the most highly developed 

 system of scientific forestry in the 

 world. The aim of the students of the 

 Biltmore Forest School, however, is not 

 to introduce any innovations upon their 

 return, since the perfect German for- 

 estry system is no more suitable for the 

 exploitation of the vast areas of Amer- 

 ican timber than American lumbering 

 methods are applicable to the communal 

 forests of Germany. The world's best 

 working field for scientific studies in 



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