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our work as a nation in putting practical forestry into effective operation. 

 As it is with mining and lumbering, so it is in only a less degree with 

 transportation, manufactures, commerce in general. The relation of all 

 of these industries to forestry is of the most intimate and dependent 

 kind. * * * 



Even the grazing industry, as it is carried on in the Great West, 

 which might at first sight appear to have little relation to forestry, is 

 nevertheless closely related to it, because great areas of winter range, 

 available and good for winter grazing, would be absolutely useless with- 

 out the summer range in the mountains where the forest reserves lie. 



As all of you know, the forest resources of our country are already seri- 

 ously depleted. They can be renewed and maintained only by the co- 

 operation of the forester with the practical man of business in all his 

 types, but above all, with the lumberman. And the most striking and 

 encouraging fact in the forest situation is that lumbermen are realizing 

 that practical lumbering and practical forestrj'- are allies, not enemies, 

 and that the future of each depends upon the other. The resolutions 

 passed at the last meeting of the representatives of the lumber interests, 

 which occurred here in Washington, were a striking proof of this fact 

 and a most encouraging feature of the present situation. So long as we 

 could not make the men concerned in the great lumber industry realize 

 that the foresters were endeavoring to work in their interest, and not 

 against them, the headway that could be made was but small. We shall 

 be able to work effectively and bring about important results of a perma- 

 nent character largely in proportion as we are able to convince those 

 men, the men at the head of that great business, of the practical wis- 

 dom of what the foresters of the United States are seeking to accom- 

 plish. * * * 



The United States is exhausting its forest supplies far more rapidly 

 than they are being produced. The situation is grave, and there is only 

 one remedy. That remedy is the introduction of practical forestry on a 

 large scale, and of course that is impossible without trained men, men 

 trained in the closet, and also by actual field work under practical condi- 

 tions. 



You have created a new profession of the highest importance, of the 

 highest usefulness to the State, and you are in honor bound to your- 

 selves and the people to make that profession stand as high as any other 

 profession, however intimately connected with our highest and finest 

 development as a nation. You are engaged in pioneer work in a calling 

 whose opportunities for public service are very great. Treat that calling 

 seriously ; remember how much it means for the country as a whole. 

 The profession you have adopted is one which touches the Republic on 

 almost every side — political, social, industrial, commercial ; to rise to its 



