Winter transportation. 



choosing of a short-sighted policy that affords the greatest 

 danger to our resources for the future. 



The steps now being taken in Europe and Asia for the preser- 

 vation and extension of the forests have not been so much due 

 to wise foresight as to actual necessity. In certain parts of 

 those countries a condition has been reached which has more 

 than fulfilled the warnings of cautious men of previous genera- 

 tions, and by methods of unscientific wood utilization even 

 less wasteful than those which are being complained of in 

 America today. It is the pressure of this situation, together 

 with their more advanced and more intensified ideas of civiliza- 

 tion, which have resulted in the efforts of the present and of 

 the recent past to protect the forest properties of those coun- 

 tries from further depletion. 



The principles of the efficient management of forest property 

 can never be fully appreciated by considering only a limited 

 area. It is only in the observation of the more conspicuous 

 instances that one may understand the result of tendencies 

 which otherwise might pass unnoticed. 



An owner who knows only his own forest operations, and 

 those only by guess work and second-hand information from 

 others who reach their conclusions by guess work, often lacks 

 the perspective which enables him to see his own opportunities 

 for conservation in their true light. 



It is for this reason that the study of forestry as a whole is 

 a most important one either for the owner or for his advisers. 

 The day has passed when guess work, either their own guess 



A lesson 

 from abroad 



Value of 

 wide study 



