2 History of Forests and Forestry. 



arts of convenience and of pleasure. Only when a 

 reduction in the natural supplies of forest products 

 under the demands of civilization, necessitates a 

 husbanding of supplies or necessitates the applica- 

 tion of art or skill or knowledge in securing a repro- 

 duction, or when unfavorable conditions of soil or 

 climate induced by forest destruction make them- 

 selves felt does the art of forestry make its appear- 

 ance. Hence its beginnings occur in different places 

 at different times and its development proceeds at 

 different paces. 



In the one country, owing to economic develop- 

 ment, the need of an intensive forest management 

 and of strict forest policies may have arrived, while 

 in another, rough exploitation and wasteful practices 

 are still natural and practically unavoidable. And 

 such differences, as we shall see, may even exist in 

 the different parts of the same country. 



The origin and growth of the art, then, is depen- 

 dent on economic and cultural conditions, on various 

 economic development and on elements of environ- 

 ment. The development of the art can only be 

 understood and appreciated through the knowledge 

 of such environment, of such other developments as 

 of agriculture, of industries, of means of transporta- 

 tion, of civilization generally. 



Hence we find, for instance, that England, located 

 so as to be accessible by sea from all points of the 

 compass and with oceanic shipping well developed, 

 can apparently dispense with serious consideration 

 of the forest supply question. 



Again, we find that more than a century ago fear 



