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right timber in sight. Several large paper companies in the United 

 States and Canada already employ foresters to look after their inter- 

 ests with respect to a continued supply of timber. 



Within the last few years, many banking houses have placed 

 "timber bonds" on the market. The value of such bonds depends 

 on many factors affecting the quality, quantity, accessibility, safety, 

 and investment value of the timber-holding on which the bonds are 

 based, and the investigation of the forest in order to determine these 

 factors is essentially work for the trained forest expert. 



The enormous* losses from forest fires and the very considerable 

 losses from the attacks of insects and fungi which our great forest 

 tracts have sustained in late years, together with the rapid increase 

 in timber values, have led many owners of timber to invest in elab- 

 orate and expensive systems of patrol and in campaigns of education. 

 The direction of such campaigns and the laying out and administra- 

 tion of such protective systems call for expert assistance which the 

 forester should be prepared to furnish. 



The demand for properly qualified instructors in forestry has 

 for several years been greater than the supply. 



More than twenty States have entered upon a more or less well- 

 defined -policy of encouraging forestry, and a few States own and 

 administer their own forest reserves. A number of foresters are 

 employed in such state work, and it is certain, that many more will 

 be required if State forestry is to take its proper place in public 

 economy. 



The United States Government, through the Forest Service, is 

 now administering nearly two hundred million acres of lands in the 

 National Forests and is employing several thousand foresters of 

 different grades. An increasing number of these are trained men and 

 many thousand more men will be urgently needed before the National 

 Forests can be adequately protected, developed, and administered. 



For many of the more self-reliant, capable men the above de- 

 scribed opportunities for positions with large owners, organizations 

 or the State can not and should not be a special inducement. For 

 this class of men the forest conditions in the United States offer 

 unlimited opportunity. Any man of this kind if he will put twenty 

 years of persistent effort into working for himself should be able 

 to own his own forest and be his own forester. 



There seems no reason to doubt, then, that for the strong, well- 

 prepared man the profession of forestry assures not only a good 

 living but also a clean and healthful life of the highest usefulness 

 and interest. 



