AMERICANS IN THE FORESTS OF GERMANY 



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8. Forest economics ; 

 a study of the condi- 

 tions, economic, social, 

 and political, under 

 which conservative for- 

 estry is more remunera- 

 tive than destructive 

 forestry. 



9. Fish and game 

 course, supplemented b}- 

 visits to the hatcheries 

 at Baden-Baden and 

 the zoological gardens 

 and museums at Frank- 

 fort and Darmstadt. 



10. American export 

 lumber trade with Ger- 

 many. 



The achievement of 

 seeing the best forests 

 in Germany in only four 

 months has been due 

 primarily to the lead- 

 ership of Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck, who studied at 

 the German universities 

 twenty years ago, be- 

 came familiar with Ger- 

 man forestry under 

 Doctor Brandis, acted as 

 forester to the 125,000- 

 acre Biltmore estate in 

 North Carolina four- 

 teen years, founded the 

 first American forestry 

 school twelve years ago, 

 and now holds the hon- 

 orary rank of Ober- 

 foerster in Hesse Darm- 

 stadt. 



The local German foresters have been 

 glad to guide the Americans and ex- 

 plain the history and management of 

 their districts. The experience of a 

 score of the best foresters in Ger- 



AMERICAN WHITE PINE 

 One hundred and twenty years old, Trippstadt, Germany 



I. In Rhenish Bavaria, in the Tripp- 

 stadt forest, near Kaiserslautern, the 

 white pine was introduced 120 years 

 ago. To-day white pine standard'^ 

 twenty inches to thirty-three inches in 

 many has been at the disposal of the diameter, breast-high, are found with a 

 school. The German forester knows prolific second growth. The illustra- 

 not only his native species, but also tions (Nos. i, 2, and 3) show the high 

 the trees of the world, particularly those quality of these standards, as well as 

 of the United States. To illustrate this the thriftiness of natural reproduction, 

 fact, a brief description of some of the The price obtained for the White pine 

 stands of American white pine vis- in the log varies from $12.50 to $49 

 ited by the Americans is given below: per 1,000 board-feet, according to size. 



