FORESTERS IN THE GREAT WAR 



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three-fourths, or some 40,000 men, arc 

 actually taking part in the fighting. 

 It must also be remembered that there 

 are a very considerable niunber of 

 foresters in private employ, many of 

 whom must also be involved. 



The fate of many European foresters 

 now fighting for their respective coun- 

 tries will be watched with the keenest 

 interest by foresters in the United 

 States. The connection between the 

 forestry profession in the Old World 

 and the New has always been a close 

 one, and many of the men who have 

 been instrumental in shaping the forest 

 policy and introducing the methods of 

 forest management now practiced in 

 this country, such as B. E. Fernow, 

 Gilford Pinchot, Henry S. Graves, Over- 

 ton W. Price, and Filbert Roth, received 

 their forestry education in Europe. Re- 

 centlv American foresters have been 



visiting Europe in constantly increasing 

 numbers, and have formed personal 

 acquaintances with their professional 

 brethren on the other side of the water, 

 many of whom are now undoubtedly 

 with the various armies. 



Of all the foresters engaged in the 

 war, Americans arc undoubtedly most 

 interested in Dr. C. A. Schenck, who 

 has for many }'ears been a reserve 

 Lieutenant in the Light Artilleryiof the 

 Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, and 

 concerning whose fate rumor has already 

 been busy. Coming to the United 

 States twenty years ago to succeed 

 Gifford Pinchot as forester to the 

 Biltmorc estate of George W. Vander- 

 bilt, at Ashe\alle, N. C., Dr.^Schenck's 

 brilliance and thorough knowledge cf 

 forestry soon made him one of the 

 prominent men in the profession. The 

 Biltmorc Forest School, which he estab- 



Dr. C. a. Schenck. 



the head of the recently disbanded biltmore forest school, who was popularly 

 known in the words of a song written by one of his bilt.more students as 



"the man WHO LOOKS I, IKK THE KAISER." DR. SCHENCK HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS 

 AN OFFICER IN THE OERMAN ARMY. 



