16 WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



scheme which presumes to lock up these grazing areas 

 against the coming of the settlers' herds will ever meet 

 with the approval of the American people. It is true we 

 must have trees and lumber, but we must first of all be 

 fed, and the meat-producing powers of the grasses 

 growing on these forested areas are entirely too valu- 

 able to be overlooked or ignored. Therefore it is well 

 that this has been recognized at the beginning of our 

 forestry work, and careful plans laid to utilize every 

 spear of grass and bit of forage where it may be done 

 without defeating the original purpose of establishing 

 the National Forests. 



Heretofore those handling the grazing side of this 

 work have been drawn from that class of men who 

 have all their lives been identified with stockraising 

 practical men accustomed to the range and understand- 

 ing the needs of stockmen from a utilitarian rather than 

 a scientific standpoint. But this source of supply can- 

 not always be depended upon. The author believes 

 the two matters go hand in hand, and that there is room 

 for the trained forester and the trained grazing man on 

 the same platform. Scientific as well as practical for- 

 estry demands men educated especially for the work, 

 and the young fellows who are graduating from our 

 forestry schools will eventually fill the places on the for- 

 ests now held by graduates from the western school 

 of "hard knocks," the course of which, for most of them, 

 covered many long and weary years before they re- 

 ceived their diplomas. 



These young graduates cannot of course have any 

 great knowledge of the practical side of the stockman's 

 work, because so much of it must be learned from actual 

 experience and every-day life on the ranges. Never- 



