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experience for the graduates of the forestry school, but they 

 would get out into the woods with experienced men, and thus 

 learn general woodcraft and estimating, and I would like to have 

 two or three technically trained young men of this kind, of good 

 general education, also of good character, who had been trained 

 ^o estimate timber just as well as regular woodsmen, and who 

 could be sent out to do it, or superintend doing it, at any time. 

 Surveying, map making and keeping up the records, would also 

 be in their regular line of work. 



"We are doing considerable work also in the way of road 

 making, and want to do more in that line, so as to improve the 

 roads in our country, and also to see that the money expended 

 for that purpose by the township officials, is spent in a better and 

 more scientific manner than is generally the case. 



"I would not want to bother with any young men, unless they 

 are willing to commence at the bottom, and could be undoubtedly 

 recommended for good character and industry. Do you think 

 yoiL have any such men that you could recommend to me ? I 

 should also be glad to have your own ideas or any suggestions 

 that you may care to make, in this line of thought." 



Besides the positions in private life, there are, even now, 

 many positions in the National and State Reserves open to prop- 

 erly qualified foresters. 



As soon as the present policy of getting rid of all poor lands 

 is changed into the proper policy of accumulating forest lands, 

 there will be in a number of our states, and notably in Michigan-, 

 a demand for trained men to assume charge of these lands, to 

 protect and improve them. So far the National Government has 

 over sity-one million acre? of forest reserves, and may be ex- 

 pected to have over one hundred million acres before long. The 

 State of New York has bought over a million acres, and the 

 State of Pennsylvania has over one-half million acres, though the 

 proper policy of accumulating the non-agricultural lands has but 

 begun in that State. Similarly, the State of Wisconsin has set 

 aside all State lands, of whatever kind, as a forest reserve, to be 

 held and managed as a continuous benefit to the people. 



Looking back only fifteen years, the progress in forestry in- 

 terest, and actual forestry effort is such that it is reasonable to 

 suppose that the good work has just begun, and will now continue 

 with more and more speed and success. 



Comparing the forester's place to positions in other callings, 

 it may be said ihat the chances for a life of usefulness, activity, 

 health and contentment are given, but that the opportunity of 

 rising to great prominence and wealth will rarely exist. The 

 forester is and always will be a woods man rather than a man of 

 the busy world, where the affairs of men daily make and unmake 

 fortunes. 



