SOME ASPECTS OF EUROPEAN FORESTRY. 



By a. B. Recknagel. 



Introduction. 



In the following series of nine articles* the attempt has been 

 made to sketch various phases of European forestry viewed 

 from the American standpoint. They are not criticisms of 

 European methods but an exposition of facts observed and of 

 their possible application to American conditions. 



The subjects presented are those which are deemed of especial 

 interest and importance to American foresters to-day ; namely 

 Administration, Silvicultural Management and Methods of Re- 

 generation, both natural and artificial, under a variety of con- 

 ditions, choosing the salient accomplishments of Germany, France 

 and Austria along each of these lines. The articles have been 

 divided according to these subjects into groups as follows: 



Group I. I. The Prussian Forest Service. 



II. Administration of a Prussian Forest. 

 Group 2. III. Management of Pine in Prussia. 



IV. Management of Spruce in Saxony. 



V. Management of Hardwoods in Eastern France. 

 Group 3. VI. Natural Regeneration in the Black Forest. 



VII. Management of Alpine Forests in Bavaria. 

 Group 4. VIII. Methods of Natural Regeneration in Austria. 

 IX. Methods of Artificial Regeneration in Austria, 



A study of European forestry brings home the value of seeing 

 methods actually carried out over a long period of years. It is 

 this impression which the article attempts to reproduce by empha- 

 sizing the history of stands and of their treatment. 



Again and again it is brought home to the American that the 

 experience we are making and the stages through which we are 

 passing are nothing but merely the inexorable repetition of history 



*These articles will appear successively in the fcur issues of the present 

 year or more rapidly as space permits. 



