THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XV. Honolulu, May, 1918. No. 5 



FORESTRY AS APPLIED IN HAWAII* 



By C. S. JuDD, Superintendent of Forestry, Territory of Hazvaii. 



I. Forestry In General. 



FOREWORD. 



The popular conception of the scope of forestry is varied and 

 it is often difficult to disillusionize some rhinds of the idea that 

 the work of the forester is simply to plant tender seedlings or to 

 enjoy aesthetic ambulations in the green woods, or that the 

 forester is a mere botanist, a landscape architect or a mere 

 orchardist. 



LIFE AND QUALIFICATIONS OF A FORESTER. 



An old forest officer in India once said : "The life of a forester 

 is not cast on a bed of roses, but rather a bed of thorns. An iron 

 constitution and a good conscience may enable him to surmount 

 all his difficulties." 



The experiences encountered in the life of a forester are so 

 numerous and the work which he must undertake in different 

 regions is so varied that it were possible to recount but a small 

 part in this brief paper. His work often takes him into the back- 

 waters of civilization. He must have the capabilities of a Jack- 

 of-all-trades and be able to mix well in frontier communities. 

 From the Igorrote forest guard on his beat in the Philippine 

 jungles wearing his forest badge pinned on to nothing but a gee 

 string, to the forest ranger on snowshoes scaling logs in the 

 woods of Oregon in a temperature of sixteen degrees below zero, 

 the successful forest officer of well rounded experience must 

 have, in a greater or less degree, the faculty to learn quickly new 

 regions, the ability to handle men, the power to think and act in 



* Delivered before the Social Science Association of Honolulu, May 6, 

 1918. 



