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professional foresters alike as top authorities in 

 their fields, and their advice was both sought and 

 followed. In a real sense they were evangelists 

 in spreading the gospel of sound forestry. There 

 were many others who produced results from research 

 and spread the results afield and who strongly in 

 fluenced the development of private forestry. 



Then there was Austin Gary, a product of the 

 Maine Woods who joined the Forest Service and took 

 his pipe and himself throughout the Southland 

 preaching the forestry gospel in language clear to 

 both the timberland owner and the lumberjack in 

 the woods. In colloguial language, &quot;he done a lot 

 of good.&quot; 



One could recount numerous examples of Forest 

 Service research v/hich contributed markedly to both 

 private and national forest practice, such as the 

 most productive and least damaging method of tapping 

 pine trees in turpentining operations; the use of 

 fire in controlling brown-spot in long-leaf pine; 

 the tree-classification scheme for ponderosa pine 

 developed by Keen which evaluated trees according 

 to thrift and vigor as a guide in marking for cutting; and 



