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THE FORESTER. 



February, 



the sea, sounds the crash and jar of a fall- 

 ing Redwood. 



It is no sinecure, this logging. Limbs 

 fall, descending trees go wrong, taut cables 

 snap, hooks tear out with such fearful 

 heights, weights, and powers, accidents 

 are frequent and fatal. But logging camps 

 are famous for the men they gather, and 

 by haunting those at Crescent City you 

 can hear stories of forest and sea to your 

 heart's content. There are men there 

 who have sailed from the Baltic to Aus- 

 tralia, from Sidney to Rio and the British 

 Isles ; who have fought in South American 



revolutions; who have served in the Eng- 

 lish army ; who have worked in the big 

 cities ; and many who have chopped and 

 hunted in the woods of the Pacific Coast 

 since the first log was cut. Those are the 

 fellows to listen to, and if you sit among 

 them of an evening under the wonderful 

 California stars, with the sea booming far 

 off to the west; hear them describe high 

 deeds as pleasures, and see their eyes 

 kindle at the brave reminders, you will 

 begin to understand the character of Cres- 

 cent City and her sister settlements by the 

 sea. 



STUDY IN EUROPE FOR AMERICAN FOREST STUDENTS.* 



By Overton W. Price. 

 Superintendent of Working Plans, Division of Forestry. 



THE student who has completed a 

 visit to the Spessart will be within 

 easy reach of the Steigerwald and 

 the town forest of Bamberg, the one well- 

 known for its mixed forests of Scotch Pine 

 and Beech and the other for the manage- 

 ment of pure Scotch Pine woods under an 

 elaborate system of clean cutting and sow- 

 ing. He should also see something of the 

 ancient town forest of Nuremberg which 

 consists chiefly of woods of Scotch Pine 

 on a soil that is little more than pure sand. 

 The forest has an interesting history and 

 is an instructive example of what skill and 

 perseverance can do in rearing woods in 

 so poor a locality, where frequent insect 

 ravages and long standing rights to the 

 collection of litter go to make matters 

 harder for the forester. 



The Bayerischer Wald covers a moun- 

 tain range in southwestern Bavaria, run- 

 ning parallel with the Bohmer Wald, a 

 second range, the summit of which forms 

 the dividing line between Bavaria and Bo- 

 hemia. Here exist forest conditions mark- 

 edly in contrast to those prevailing gener- 

 ally in Germany. In this isolated and 



* The first part of this paper appeared in The 

 FORKSTER for January. 



sparsely settled region where lack of facil- 

 ities for the transport of timber and dis- 

 tance from the market greatly lower 

 stumpage values, the form of forest man- 

 agement is peculiarly instructive for 

 Americans. 



In Saxony, where the forests are chiefly 

 pure Spruce and where natural reproduc- 

 tion has been almost entirely abandoned 

 for clean cutting and planting, the Ameri- 

 can student will see a form of manage- 

 ment impossible under our conditions. 

 He will, however, have a chance to study 

 the most striking example that Europe af- 

 fords of the dangers and advantages of a 

 purely financial forestry. In Saxony, the 

 most remunerative use of forests is the 

 growing of Spruce for paper pulp. The 

 diameter at which Spruce can be used 

 there for this purpose and its rate of 

 growth are such that it pays best to cut it 

 when it is about sixty years old. At this 

 age, however, European Spruce does not 

 bear full crops of seed, and natural repro- 

 duction under a rotation of sixty years is 

 impossible. It is thus that the system of 

 planting and sowing has come about, it 

 having been found financially preferable to 

 natural reproduction and a longer rotation. 



