FORESTRY QUARTERLY. 



VOL. IV] SEPTEMBER, 1906 [No. 3 



UNPROFESSIONAL FORESTRY. 



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NEW Y< 

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It ought to be a source of satisfaction to foresters when they find 

 the work they have at heart going on outside the range of their 

 knowledge and immediate assistance. When simple business inter- 

 est dictates careful and conservative management on the part of 

 forest owners, and this fact is clearly recognized, then, indeed, the 

 cause is won. Just what the measures that embody it shall be, and 

 just who are the best men to carry it into effect are matters that may 

 be safely left for settlement by trial and time. 



The Canadian maritime provinces afford many examples of such 

 unprofessional forestry. In that region are numerous forest prop- 

 erties that have been cut over for many years and yet retain their 

 growing power and value. A moist climate and a law-abiding popu- 

 lation have secured considerable exemption from fire. Logging 

 methods conservative of the forest have been employed. The tem- 

 per of the owners has not been such as to force timber ruthlessly on 

 the market. As a general thing only trees of good size have been 

 cut, an amount of lumber frequently within the power of the lands 

 to produce. That this policy has been a good one for all concerned 

 would seem to be indisputable. The people and the operators have 

 done well, and the lands, in spite of 50 years cutting, are more val- 

 uable at the present time than ever before. Some of these proper- 

 ties are handled today as nearly according to the principles of true 

 forestry as is practicable. 



An illustration of such methods was encountered by the senior 

 ^jQ class in forestry at Harvard University on its trip among the lum- 

 ^ ber camps last winter. The Hollingsworth and Whitney Company of 

 ' Boston, whose mills are at Waterville, Me., is one of the largest pa- 



^ per manufacturing establishments of New England. This company, 



some 10 years ago, began a policy of land purchase, which it has 



consistently carried on until, at the present time it owns 100,000 



