JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



Vol. XVI DECEMBER, 1918 No. 8 



THE SCHOOL-TRAINED FORESTER 



Bv F. Roth 



Professor of Forestry, University of Miehigaii 



NEW Y(.j 



BOTANIC 



(JtAKUH 



Mr. Kneipp's article in the Journal certainly brought out a must 

 timely and useful discussion of a subject which is old in other lines, 

 such as engineering, medicine, etc., but is new in forestry, in keeping 

 with the newness of the subject in our country. After such excellent 

 statements as those of Kirkland, Olmsted. vSilcox, and others, it seems 

 quite superfluous for me to attempt a discussion or rejoinder, and the 

 following is intended chiefly in the nature of a vote, openly and gladlx' 

 cast on this question. 



Having known Mr. Kneipp for over sixteen years, it gives me pleas- 

 ure, here at the outset, to testify to his excellent work, the patient per- 

 sistence imder very trying conditions in the old Land Office days, the 

 ability and good judgment, as well as the highest integrity ; and I am 

 sincerely glad to be able to compliment and congratulate Mr. Kneipp 

 on his well deserved, splendid career. I fully realize, too, that in an 

 address such as his, where alTairs of the Service are being discussed. 

 one does not prepare a legal brief, intended to stand all tests of hair- 

 splitting criticism, and, fiu'thermorc, I fully believe in the good inten- 

 tions of helping the men and furthering the whole business of the Service 

 as having formed the principal motive. Having this in mind and wishing 

 merely to cast a vote and incidentally to contribute a word of explana- 

 tion and suggestion intended chiefly for young men going into forestrv, 

 rather than any rejoinder to Mr. Kneipp's statements, 1 wisli to iinpha- 

 size that no offense to nor reflections on any one is intended. 



The importance of the subject which Mr. Kneipp's article brought 

 out on the l)arn floor to be thrashed over is certainly verv great, and 

 is particularly important at the present time in forestry. In mining 

 and railway engineering the value of the school-i)red man ])egan to he 

 recognized over fifty years ago; in other lines of engineering and in 

 matuifacture. much later. But today the contractor who jnits down 

 our three-nn'le water-pipe line is a graduate of the Universitx- of Miclii- 



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