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the men in the federal forest service as well as foresters generally. 

 Ours is a new profession in America and yet in the comparatively 

 few years that the work has been going on wonderful strides 

 have been made in the actual practice of the profession as well 

 as the placing upon permanent record some of the results of 

 such progress. 



Are we not far enough ahead now that we should begin to 

 collect the songs, the verses, and the stories that have grown up 

 about the life — in short, to start to record the non-technical 

 literature, if you please, of the American forester? 



The different forest schools in the United States have naturally 

 contributed in large measure to the forest songs now extant. 

 Many of the songs are parodies, but some are worthy to last ; 

 some are original — these certainly deserve a permanent place in 

 any collection of American forest verse. Some of the verse is 

 crude, illy rhymed, some of it is written by technically trained 

 foresters, a good deal by the forest ranger on the firing line. 



While the collection is fairly large at present still it is felt 

 that there is much material that should be included which the 

 writer has not had an opportunity of obtaining and which he is 

 extremely anxious to secure, especially verse that has appeared in 

 the various forest news letters issued by forest supervisors. This 

 note is intended as a plea to every reader of the Quarterly, as 

 well as every member of the Forest Service and anyone interested 

 in the plan, to send to the writer at the address given below any 

 and all verse that reflects in any way the life or work of the 

 forester or forest ranger. It is a broad field, including the United 

 States, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Philippines. It is proposed 

 to give the name of the author of each selection, unless the author 

 prefers to have his name withheld. The writer will undertake 

 the collection and editing of the material for the volume, with 

 the hope that the booklet when it appears may find a place for 

 itself with the men of the U. S. Forest Service and with every 

 forester and forest ranger, whether he be in the federal forest 

 service or not. 



Jno. D. Guthrie, 

 Springerville, Arizona. 



