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schools for a number of years, creating a grade between that of 

 Ranger and Forest Assistant into which men from four year 

 courses may go. Meritorious service or further training would 

 make it possible for these men to advance to the higher grades. 

 Many men would, however, be satisfied probably to remain 

 permanently in such a position and gradually a permanent force 

 of great effectiveness between the ranger and the highly trained 

 technical man be created. 



Up to this time, it has been somewhat difficult for the post- 

 graduate schools to give real post-graduate work. This difficulty 

 is being overcome every year by increased entrance requirements 

 and higher standards and the departments and schools giving 

 undergraduate work are urging more and more that their 

 strongest men go on to the post-graduate schools. The first men- 

 tioned schools have great opportunities for raising the standards 

 of the whole profession and for training highly efficient specia- 

 lists. There is every reason to believe from their present work 

 that they will more than live up to their opportunities. 



There is no disagreement among foresters in this country that 

 whatever the especial trend of the training and wherever it may 

 be given, we must turn out men with the right attitude toward 

 hard work and responsibility and men who can do the work they 

 are given without having to lean on the reputation of the school 

 from which they come or the degree received. The splendid de- 

 velopment of work on our National Forests has shown that 

 whatever the training of a man, he must be adaptable, intensely 

 practical and with good business sense. Past work has demanded 

 a knowledge not only of the flora and the principles of growth 

 but of surveying and mapping and sufficient work in mechanics 

 to understand thoroughly the principles of lumbering. The im- 

 mediate future promises to demand much the same of the forest 

 school graduate. The schools which wish to have their men suc- 

 ceed in practice must prepare them to meet immediate demands 

 and yet through it all there should be emphasized the ideals of 

 the profession. Not only should a man understand plane sur- 

 veying enough to run lines and prepare maps but he should be so 

 grounded in the principles of silviculture and management that he 

 can formulate an ideal for the forest or the waste placed in his 

 hands and be able to work with patience toward the forest that 

 will produce in the most efficient way. 



