THE 



LIBHAR7 



NEW YORK 



JOUENAL OF FOEESTKY 



AND ESTATES MANAGEMENT. 



Our introductory Note. 



The Journal of Forestky and Estates Management may fairly 

 be called upon to justify its appearance among the magazines of the 

 month by some statement of its aims and purposes, its plans and 

 prospects, as well as the field and place it is intended to occupy. It 

 might be almost a sufficient reason to assign, that every great interest 

 in the community has seen and felt the necessity and advantage of 

 having an organ for the promotion of the improvement, and the 

 maintenance of the welfare of that speciality with which it is con- 

 cerned, and of those who are engaged in it. In such a medium of com- 

 munication, all the information which can be gathered together can be 

 concentrated, exhibited at one view, and utilized in the best way. 

 In it, all questions affecting the interest which it guards can be con- 

 sidered and discussed by and among those who are most intimate 

 with its facts, principles, and details, and who have most to gain or 

 lose by the manner in which they are settled. Through it, also, 

 common action may be taken, advisedly, on all matters affecting the 

 progress and prosperity of the parties connected with that special 

 interest ; while, in addition to all these separate benefits, the existence 

 of a special organ conduces to the creation of an csj)nt de corjjs, and 

 tends to bring into unity the several members of the constituency to 

 which it appeals, and give them co-operative power. These general 

 considerations may, we say, be regarded as offering a fair preliminary 

 justification of the advent into the crowded fields of journalism of 

 a periodical devoted to the promotion of Forestry, as it is now 

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