8 PRACTICAL FORESTRY 
As Dr. Fernow says in his brochure on the Prog- 
ress of Forest Management in the Adirondacks, three. 
primary essentials must form the basis of an Ameri- 
can system of forestry. They are as follows: 
I. Better protection of forest property, includ- 
ing methods of taxation—a subject for legislation. 
II. More thorough utilization of the forest crop 
—a subject of wood technology and development of 
means of transportation and harvesting. 
III. Silvicultural methods of harvesting, so as 
to produce a desirable new crop, or else artificial re- 
forestation, if that is more effective and cheaper—the 
main concern of forestry. These three phases of the 
subject will be treated more or less at length in the 
following chapters. 
In this country, owing to the great abundance of 
wood in times past, and owing to the difficulty of 
enforcing laws in thinly populated forest districts, 
the forest has been abused. This is so in most new 
countries, such as Canada, United States of America, 
and Australia. In speaking of the destruction of for- 
ests in Australia for the sake of pasturage, the his- 
torian Froude says: “ Trees so matchless ought to be 
preserved, but the soil which bears them is valuable, 
and they are doomed to destruction. Government 
makes law, but in a democracy the people do just as 
they please. Greed and practise are master; the laws 
