PREFACE. 



u As yet forestry in America is young. In its progress toward maturity 

 it must develop new methods to meet the unfamiliar conditions with which it 

 has to deal. Rules and practices which were devised without reference to 

 American forests cannot always be counted on to fit American needs. Perhaps 

 nothing has done more to retard the progress of forestry in America than the 

 disregard of its intimate and friendly relation to lumbering a relation which 

 was almost wholly overlooked for years after the advocates of forest protection 

 first brought their cause to public attention. In the eyes of many of its early 

 friends the lumberman was a vandal whose inordinate greed called for constant 

 denunciation, while to the lumberman the ideas of the forest reformer had no 

 relation whatever to the affairs of practical life. (Since that early day lumber- 

 men and foresters have been drawing together, and much progress has been 

 made toward the right opinion, which may be expressed by saying that 

 lumberman and forester are as needful to each other as the axe and its helve. 

 Without the axe the helve has little weight; without the helve the axe is lack- 

 ing both in reach and in direction. T Gijford Pinchot : The Adirondack 

 Spruce. Preface. 



