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One of the tremendous hcndits which we may look 

 for from the return of the Foresters from France is an 

 intelligent recognition of some of the fundamental 

 ideals of forestry which so Far have been obscured and 

 buried beneath a mass of administrative details and 

 pressing practical problems. Evidences of this new 

 spirit of appreciation of the ultimate purposes of forest 

 management continue to multiply. In a recent article 

 by District Forester DuBois, an entirely new viewpoint 

 is brought to bear on forest management in District 

 No. 5. Mr. DuBois states briefly as follows : 



"The least progress has been made in the manage- 

 ment of the resources which the 'raison d' etre' of 

 the national forest timber. In central France the for- 

 ests serve the communities as nowhere in this country. 

 While in California the forest occurs in a mountain 

 fringe far from the centers of population and separated 

 from the people and transportation routes by strips of 

 sparsely inhabited hill country, in France the forests 

 are found in areas of a few acres to a square mile scat- 

 tered throughout the thickly settled farming regions. 

 We have corners in California which are going to ap- 

 proach French conditions in time. Are we selling the 

 timber adjacent to future communities for shipment 

 East?" 



(Comment: In the working plans for Silviculture in 

 District No. 3, we recognize that our most urgent prob- 

 lem is to provide for the future supply of such local 

 communities. There are few forests but what have 

 situations which demand almost immediate attention. 

 This calls for the establishment of a working circle and 



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