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emergencies, the faculty of subordination to authority and of 

 maintaining discipline, and self-reliance. 



I am acquainted with rangers in Wyoming who are experts 

 in the cattle range business ; I have hiked with rangers through 

 the dense forests on the west coast of Oregon who had never 

 been on a horse, and the ranger in Alaska works in a- region 

 where the motor boat takes the place of the saddle and pack 

 horse; hip boots and a slicker, the place of chaps, and it is much 

 more essential that he knows how to adjust a spark plug than to 

 be able to throw a diamond hitch. 



PUBLIC SERVICE, THE SLOGAN OF THE FORESTER. 



In all his work the forester must bear well in mind the fact 

 that the welfare of the people, not only of the present but of the 

 future, must be his endeavor and that the forest is the medium 

 through which he works. 



It has been well said that the successful forester is the one 

 whose life and work contribute most fully to the necessity, con- 

 venience, and pleasure of the greatest number of people. Public 

 service, therefore, is the byword of the forester, and it has often 

 been asserted that the forest policy of the National Government 

 is the longest look ahead that the United States has ever taken 

 in any direction. 



FORESTRY DEFINED. 



To come to a definition of what forestry really is, we may 

 state that it is the science and art of managing forests in con- 

 tinuity for forest purposes, i. e. for wood supplies or forest in- 

 fluences and it is in the latter that we are chiefly interested here 

 in Hawaii. 



THE FORESIGHTEDNESS OF FORESTRY. 



The central idea of forestry is the intelligent and foresighted 

 use of a great natural resource. Forestry is distinct from arbori- 

 culture, which deals with individual trees, for it has to do with 

 single trees only as they stand together on some large area whose 

 principal crop is trees. 



SUPPLY FORESTS. 



Our civilization is built on the chief product of the forest 

 which from the cradle to the coffin, in some shape or other, sur- 

 rounds us as a convenience or a necessity. The uses of wood 

 are multifarious and it is safe to say that 99 per cent of all wood 

 is used in supplying real needs. 



Over half of the people in the United States live in wooden 

 houses and the houses of the other half require wood as an in- 

 dispensable part of their construction. More than two-thirds use 

 wood as fuel and for every 100 tons of coal mined, 2 tons of 

 mining timber are needed. There is hardly a utensil, a tool, or 



