io 6 THE FORESTER May, 



in lumber camps and lumber mills; The change in American forest econ- 



partly on a trip to Germany or France, omy must come, and must come soon, 



where silvicultural principles may be Forest proprietors have anticipated it in 



studied, and nothing else. The eco- sections where the conditions are less 



nomic conditions on the other side of the unfavorable, and have begun to apply 



water are so different from those prevail- conservative management to the forests 



ing in this country that it is futile to try which they control. 



an adaptation of European forestry to Still the forests of the United States 



American woods silvicultural principles d no t offer illustrations exhibiting the 



excepted. effect of applied silviculture. Even 



We cannot import German forestry those at Biltmore show only ten years^ 

 unless we import German conditions, management. Thus it will be advisable 

 conditions under which conservative f or the forest student to visit countries 

 forest management pays better than where silviculture has been practiced for 

 rapid lumbering. If our lawmakers were over a century. He simply follows the ex- 

 filled with the conviction that the com- ample of the American artist who studies 

 monwealth needs forests, and that it should those masters in the Old World which 

 pay for forest maintenance just as much the New World does not yet offer, 

 as that maintenance is worth ; if our In the course f three years a young 

 Government would only provide and pay man Wlll be ready to fill a p OS ; t j on i n a 

 for a state of affairs making conservative forest un dertaking. It will depend on 

 lumbering of forests more remunerative the work to w hi c h he is put whether he 

 to the owner than rapid forest destruc- has to en i arge upon his knowledge of 

 tion, we would get "European Forestry" botany or on his knowledge of law or 

 at once. political economy and so on, and so on. 



The legislatures, the people, we our- Ne i ther the physician nor the forester 



selves are guilty of committing the crime can ever stop i ea rning. It is impossible 



of deforestation by carelessly allowing in this comp ii cat ed world to be prepared 



conditions to remain unchanged which for &n emergencies. Any new situation, 



make forest destruction more remuner- necessitates new study. 



ative to the owner than forest conserva- . , , , , _ 



*. -d , , u , , , r . Again and again, forestry is business,, 



tion. Release the heavy burden of taxes . u a *ul 



r /,,. j- , the forester a business man, and the 



on young forests not yielding immediate . . . , , . ' , . 



j_ J r * x 4.u primary training he needs in order tc* 



returns; save maturing forests from the J , ,-. ,, . ^^ m 



, .',. j 11* become a "master of his art, is a com- 



short-sightedness of local tax assessors ; , , 



a ^At 4. t c~ a mon sense and business training, 

 protectyoung and old forests from hre and 



theft as well as any other property, and C. A. Schenck. 



youwill have forestry, because it will pay. 



III. BY THE FORESTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



" The general objects of training in for- knowledge of physical science, a good 

 estry are : first, to develop what may be working acquaintance with the theory of 

 called, after the French, the forester's forestry, and a considerable experience 

 eye that is, the capacity to observe and with the forest itself under a variety of 

 understand the condition and needs of conditions. The first step, in my judg- 

 forest land ; and, secondly, to give such ment, should be a college or university 

 a knowledge of methods and circum- training, wherever that is possible, 

 stances that the forester may be able to Forest work, on the rougher side, de- 

 act intelligently, in accordance with the mands great bodily endurance and strong 

 facts he has observed. To reach these enthusiasm, but there are other divisions 

 ends the forest student must have some of the subject which make less stringent 



