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marked by the rangers and sometimes by the woodsmen ! One 

 finds more natural regeneration in France than elsewhere, partly 

 because the species and soil (and especially the climate!) is better 

 adapted to it. 



In Forest Protection, France is probably the best exponent of 

 methods of correcting disastrous floods. The Pyrenees and the 

 Alps are the places to study this. 



In the control of dunes, France offers an excellent field for 

 study along its western coast. 



Officers interested in an intensive fire control should not fail 

 to visit the Forest of L'Esterel which is reached from Frejus 

 near Cannes on the French Riviera. The pine and corkoak 

 forests have been difficult to protect during the dry and windy 

 fire season from May to September. Perhaps the most instruc- 

 tive point about the system is the object lesson on the high ex- 

 pense of cleared fire lines. 



In Forest Management, France shows much that is original and 

 its "Methode de Masson" and "Methode de 1883" well repay 

 careful study of both theory and practice. 



In Forest Technology, the turpentine industry of Southern 

 France (vicinity of Bordeaux) stands pre-eminent. 



Corsica and Algeria present special problems; probably the 

 study of the Eucalyptus planting in these lands would be worth 

 a trip. In Algeria the fire problem was legislated against in 1893 ; 

 this legislation is instructive and of course can be best understood 

 after a trip in the field. 



Germany. 



In general it must be conceded that Germany has advanced 

 further along the lines of theoretical technical forestry than any 

 other country, and has reached a stage of intensive development 

 which no other can rival. From the standpoint of Administration 

 the superb organization of the Prussian Forest Service or that of 

 Alsace-Lorraine is probably unsurpassed. In matters of Forest 

 Management, Germany is in the throes of a conflict between Soil 

 Rent and Forest Rent — radical against conservative — which is of 

 deep economic importance. Prussia is typical of the conserv^ative 

 side, accentuating material production, Saxony of the radicals 



