IGO JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



The outlet for American foresters in government employ in the 

 Latin American republics is not promising for a similar reason. It 

 is true that the Argentina government had two American foresters in 

 its employ for a few years. Another reason is that these countries 

 have not felt the need of trained foresters. This is because, except 

 for a few notable exceptions, these countries are either in the stage of 

 what Zon calls being "dominated by the forests" or the stage of "over- 

 coming the forests." It is the writer's belief that not much progress 

 can be made bv foreigners in helping them to the stage of dominating 

 the forests. This work must be carried on mainly by men of their own 

 country, hence, the campaign that the Yale School of Forestry has 

 carried on to induce Latin American governments to train foresters. 

 It is, however, probable that some of these countries will be calling on 

 American foresters to act in an advisory capacity or to handle special 

 investigative problems. 



The chief outlet for American trained foresters has been in the 

 tropical possessions of the United States, especially in the Philippines, 

 and to a less extent in the Hawaiian Islands and Porto Rico. 



More than thirty foresters trained in the forest schools of the 

 United States have been empl6yed by the Philippine government at 

 different times in the last twenty years. Five of these are still con- 

 nected with that government and seven have migrated to neighboring 

 countries to accept more responsible positions in private work or are 

 connected with the forestry departments of neighboring governments. 

 One is engaged in private work in Brazil. Thus the Forest Service 

 of the Philippine government has been the principal training ground 

 for American foresters to get their experience in tropical forestry. 

 Nearly half of them are still engaged in tropical work connected with 

 forestry. The training ground in the Philippines for experience" in 

 tropical conditions is still open to a limited number, but since the policy 

 of the Philippine government has been to train Filipinos for such work 

 as can be done by them, the demand for Americans has not been so 

 great. 



As has already been stated employers wishing men for tropical work 

 related to forestry almost always seek those with tropical experience 

 if they can be found. For this reason they often take men who have 

 had experience in the tropics without regard to special training in 

 forestry. This is natural, for the white man instinctively has a fear 

 of the tropics. The employer does not want men who are not known 



