PART III. 



FOREST ADMINISTRATION. 



IN all of the operations pertaining to forest conservation 

 and economic exploitation, to sylviculture and reboisement, 

 to which reference has been made in preceding chapters of 

 this volume, there may be traced a desire to secure for the 

 present and for succeeding generations the full benefit of 

 the usufruct without detriment to the inheritance, the use 

 of the forests without abuse or waste literally, a tire et 

 aire, to obtain from the forests, and use the full quantity 

 of their produce by growth within any specified period, a 

 day, a decade, or a century, but to leave the capital undimin- 

 ished. And the principle involved in the action taken in 

 the exploitation of the forest produce may be said to be : 

 Ascertain what the produce by growth is; use it all, but 

 nothing more ; make available all the information which 

 professional students of the matter have amassed ; if others 

 than they must have the administration of what is State 

 property, let the State administrators have the information, 

 counsel, and aid of such at command ; let nothing be done 

 at haphazard : and put a stop to all malversations and all 

 thieving ; let all depasturing in the forests of flocks and 

 herds which might do damage to the trees, either young or 

 old, be stopped ; and let all chance of fire be met with 

 precautionary preventive measures ; let all rights of usage 

 and servitudes be respected, but so far as possible let them, 

 by equitable arrangements, be extinguished; and let all 

 State forests be treated as a trust estate, honourably 

 managed, and made to yield to the generation in posses- 



