146 Appendix. 



WHAT LUMBERMEN ARE PREPARING TO DO FOR FORESTRY. 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, at its meeting at 

 Chicago, May 10, 1905, started a movement to endow a chair of for- 

 estry and practical lumbering at Yale College. This association, which 

 has affiliated with it practically all the lumber associations in America, 

 and therefore, all the leading lumbermen from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific, will raise by subscription $150,000 to endow this chair. Young 

 men who take this course in practical lumbering will have the very best 

 opportunties for actual lumbering work as well as a thorough training 

 in the scientific part of their profession. Such young men will receive 

 the preference on the part of lumbermen who want high-class men for 

 their operations. If lumbermen want foresters is it not a good sign 

 that they are willing to educate them? 



In other words, the lumbermen of America endorse forestry because 

 it means money to them. They need men technically trained, just the 

 ■same as the manufacturers need the graduate of Technology Institute. 



The lumbermen are becoming foresters themselves because it is prac- 

 tical. They are educating their future employees in practical forestry 

 because they want them; in other words, they need them in their busi- 

 ness. Mr. Frederick Weyerhaueser, one of the most progressive and 

 most extensive lumber operators in America, has been appointed chair- 

 man of the committee to raise this endowment fund. 



If you talk to any progressive lumberman to-day you will find he is in 

 favor of forestry because it is practical, because it means dollars and 

 cents to him. 



WHAT FORESTRY HAS DONE FOR MAN. 



In approaching this part of the subject, it is necessary to recount 

 what destruction of the forests man has wrought by his own folly and 

 how forestry has helped him to replace what he has so recklessly wasted. 



In Europe and Asia, older civilized countries than ours, the early in- 

 habitants did just as the early pioneers in America did, destroy the trees 

 so as to produce crops. Man early considered trees his natural enemies 

 and devised means of cutting them down and destroying them. 



But necessity for reform became apparent when, as a consequence of 

 the reckless denudation of such mountains as the Alps, Cevenees and 

 Pyrenees, whole communities became impoverished by the torrents which 

 came pouring down upon the fertile lands at the foot of the mountains. 

 This in France was paralelled in Germany, Italy and other countries, 

 and the present modern forestry movement began. 



Droughts, floods, pestilence always follow in the wake of destruction 

 of the forests. The banks of the Nile were the early source of the wood 

 supply. The civilization of Egypt, of Greece, of Rome, all declined and 

 westward the course of Empire took its way, all because of the destruc- 

 tion of forests by man. 



The Bible is undoubtedly the greatest book in history. From a purely 

 historical point of view, I wish to point out to you what destruction and 

 devastation man wrought in those early days. 



