I INTRODUCTION INTO FOREST 



POLICY. 



PARAGRAPH I. 



WHAT IS FORESTRY? 



What is Forestry? Public opinion identifies the term "for- 

 estry" in the prairies with tree-planting, in the east with con- 

 servative lumbering, in the city parks with landscape work. There 

 exists, indeed, a mix-up of opinions with reference to the meaning 

 of forestry in the minds of even the most enlightened. 



The "Century Dictionary" defines forestry as "the art of form- 

 ing or of cultivating timber, or the management of growing 

 timber." 



Dr. B. E. Fernow, in Bulletin No. 5 of the Division of Forestry 

 claims for forestry in a wooded country a two-fold object, viz., 

 firstly to produce and reproduce certain useful material; and se- 

 condly to sustain or possibly improve certain advantageous na- 

 tural conditions. 



Gifford Pinchot, in "Encyclopaedia Americana," defines for- 

 estry as "the art of using the forest continuously for the good 

 of man." 



In Chap. I of the 2nd. part of his "Primer of Forestry," 

 Gifford Pinchot states: "Forest management and conservative 

 lumbering are other names for practical forestry. Under whatever 

 name it may be known, practical forestry means both the use and 

 the preservation of the forest." 



Henry S. Graves, in the "Review of Reviews," April IQIO, de- 

 fines forestry as: "The control of Nature's powers by man for his 

 own good." 



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