THE NEW EARTH 



productive; how best to train that increas- 

 ingly large number of young men who are 

 leaving college life for the calling, indeed, one 

 might almost say, the profession, of forestry; 

 how to do all the detail work of valuation, 

 forest measurement, record -making, and the 

 like; how to create forests where none now 

 exist, these and many another question are 

 coming up in these days of the New Earth 

 for settlement. Under the wise administration 

 of affairs, these questions are being settled for 

 the practical good of the present and the 

 future as well; for, after all, the forester is 

 largely the man of tomorrow. Today in for- 

 estry is important ; tomorrow is all-important. 

 Before this service stretches unlimited op- 

 portunity in the one particular of reforesting 

 the denuded areas. I recall a ride one late 

 winter day through a great pine forest in a 

 northwestern state where, as yet, no axe had 

 struck a blow. It was a magnificent primeval 

 forest, with splendid opportunities for har- 

 vesting the trees that were large enough for 

 the mills, and for nourishing the younger 

 pines that were coming up in the open swales 

 and crowding even their nobler brethren in the 



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