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THE FORESTER. 



July, 



who has in mind forestry as his pro- 

 fession, usually concerns the chance of 

 finding work when his preparatory study 

 is ended. The sources of demand for 

 trained foresters at the moment are com- 

 paratively few, but they are increasing 

 with remarkable rapidity. The great lum- 

 bering concerns, such as the International 

 Paper Company, which controls more 

 than 100,000,000 acres of Spruce land, 

 are rapidly getting to see that it is worth 

 their while to employ trained foresters. 

 One Yale man is employed by the com- 

 pany just mentioned ; another college 

 graduate, not a Yale man, has charge for 

 a company of certain phases of its lum- 

 bering in Maine ; and a recently organ- 

 ized company in the Adirondacks will 

 do its lumbering conservatively under 

 the direction of the Division of Forestry. 

 The demand from this source may be 

 expected to increase very greatly within 

 the next ten years, as the great holders 

 of timber land come to realize more 

 generally that conservative lumbering 

 pays better than the destructive methods 

 now employed. 



In a similar way mining companies 

 will eventually find it to their interest 



to employ foresters. The owners of 

 game parks have already taken steps in 

 this direction. Private owners of large 

 areas such as Biltmore Forest in North 

 Carolina, the property of George W. 

 Vanderbilt, Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park, in the 

 Adirondacks, owned by W. Seward 

 Webb, a Yale man, and the contiguous 

 land held by the Hon. Wm. C. Whitney, 

 another Yale man, are already under the 

 management of trained men. The need 

 of foresters to care for the .forest in- 

 terests of the several States is already 

 making itself felt. States such as New 

 York, with its million and a quarter acres 

 of forest land : North Carolina, with its 

 Geological Survey thoroughly interested 

 in forest study ; New Jersey and Mary- 

 land, of which the same is true; Maine, 

 New Hampshire and several others, with 

 their Forest Commissions ; Minnesota, 

 with its Fire Warden law, and other 

 States are rapidly creating a demand 

 for foresters, and would be doing so still 

 more rapidly if men were available to do 

 the work. Finally, the National Gov- 

 ernment already employs a considerable 

 number of men, and in the comparatively 

 near future will very largely extend the 



"NEATH THE ELMS 



Trees within the Campus, overshadowing " The Old Brick Row." 



