WHAT FORESTRY IS 



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So, in addition to this fundamental idea of forest protection 

 from fire and waste, there came into being a science of forest 

 culture that has been given the name of forestry. And the 

 purpose of forestry, reduced to its fundamental terms, is to 

 help nature produce perpetually, on a given area, the greatest 

 quantities of the most valuable forest products. It has to do, 

 not so much with the individual tree, as with that complex 

 community of trees we call the forest. 



NURSE TREES 



Aspen, birch, poplar and other trees with open foliage often protect seedlings of 

 other more valuable species from wind and drought. 



Foresters look on a forest as the farmer looks on a field of 

 wheat. Both are crops of the soil and both produce harvests of 

 varying usefulness to man. In deciding between barley, wheat, 

 rye, or any other agricultural crop, the farmer selects what he 

 will grow, both on the basis of what his lands will best pro- 

 duce and what crop will prove most profitable. In the same 



