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large business undertakings looking to the colleges and selecting tech- 

 nically trained men for leadership in their enterprises rather than men 

 who have grown up in the business, starting in as water-carrier? 



I believe the National Forests should be managed by men having a 

 good administrative and executive capacity, but I believe also that that 

 capacity can be found more frequently in the technically trained men. 



This matter, it seems to me, is hardly worth controversy. If, how- 

 ever, it is worth while, I would like to see a study made of the total 

 personnel of the Forest Service from its organization down to the 

 present time, showing the effectiveness of the work of non-technical 

 men as compared with those with technical training. 



I fully appreciate the fact that a man with a technical training must, 

 from the nature of things, serve his apprenticeship on the forest, where 

 he is later going to work, before he can be a very effective man. The 

 Forest Service should appreciate this, however, and if they expect to 

 have able men as leaders, they must show, in my judgment, more 

 encouragement to technically trained men that are brought into the 

 Service. 



In European countries the man with technical training serves an 

 apprenticeship before he secures an office of responsibility. When he 

 has served the apprenticeship, however, he stands out clearly and defi- 

 nitely superior to men without a technical training. It ought to be this 

 way in the United States. 



By S. N. Spring — 



Perhaps the most striking thing in this paper is the author's utter 

 misconception of the term "forest management." It niav be defined as 

 "The application of forestry in the business of the forest."^ Forest 

 management deals with all the business of the forest. Of its branches, 

 "Forest Organization'" (or regulation) orders the work of silviculture, 

 both in respect to time and place ; plans an orderly harvest of the stands 

 of timber; plans the necessary improvements, divisions of the forest, 

 necessary roads, and other means of protection and utilization of the 

 forest. Forest administration carries out the plans, but is not sharply 

 separated from organization. Forest valuation concerns itself with 

 income and outlay, the value of the forest investment, and is a neces- 

 sity in every line of forest work. 



In general, forest management purposes to make the best use of all 

 resources of the forest. 



'Forest Terminology, Journal of Forestry, Volume XV, No. 

 * See Forest Regulation, pp. 1-2, Roth, Ann Arbor, 1914. 



