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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



45 



The Forester, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



The American Forestry Association, 



AND 



Devoted to Arboriculture and Forestry, the 



Care and Use of Forests and Forest 



Trees, and Related Subjects. 



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Copyright, 1901, by the American Forestry As- 

 sociation. 



Vol. VII. 



FEBRUARY, 1901. 



No. 2. 



The When Dr. Johnson pub- 



Forester's lished his dictionary he 



Vocabulary. wrote in the preface, 



"When I took the first 

 survey of my undertaking, I found our 

 speech copious without order and energetic 

 without rules ; wherever I turned my view 

 there was perplexity to be disentangled, 

 and confusion to be regulated ; choice was 

 to be made out of boundless variety, without 

 any established principle of selection and 

 modes of expression (were) to be rejected 

 or received without the suffrages of any 

 writers of classical reputation or acknowl- 

 edged authority." There could be no bet- 

 ter description of the looseness and care- 

 lessness in the use of words now so com- 

 mon in what is written about forestry in 

 America than this, or of the difficulties 

 which present themselves to any one who 

 attempts to introduce order into at least his 

 own vocabulary. But this is all the more 

 reason why people who are interested in 

 forestry should try without delay to adopt 

 something approaching consistency of defi- 

 nition. There are many words of which 

 the usage can only be settled with time, 

 but with regard to the meanings of others 

 it should not be difficult to establish some 

 sort of agreement. Such words are : for- 

 estry (as a noun, and as an adjective) ; 



forest (adjective); forestal ; forestral ; 

 for est rial; to of or est ; reforestation, re- 

 forestration, reaforestation, reaforestra- 

 tion, to deforest, to deforestate, defores- 

 tation, improvement cutting, thinning, 

 clearing, cleaning, and many others. 



We invite correspondence on this sub- 

 ject and hope to take it up again in a 

 later issue. A 



The Oppor- The long-hoped-for cru- 



tunity in New sade for rational treat- 

 Hampshire, ment of the forests is <ret- 

 ting under way in New 

 Hampshire at last. On January 21st a 

 meeting was held in the offices of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, at which the first 

 steps in the formation of a State Forestry 

 Association were taken. A committee of 

 organization was appointed and the sup- 

 port of a number of the men of most in- 

 fluence in New Hampshire was gained 

 for the movement. This is a good begin- 

 ning, but considering the conditions under 

 which this movement has started the still 

 remaining task of launching the Associa- 

 tion safely is no easy one. Those who are 

 most actively interested in New Hamp- 

 shire's forests are on the one hand the 

 lumbermen, and on the other the summer 

 visitors, and the residents who in one way 

 or another are interested in the business 

 which these brings It is friction between 

 these two groups that has done more than 

 anything to arouse interest in the proposed 

 forest association, and yet if those who are 

 organizing it fail to realize that only a 

 policy of reconciliation can succeed, they 

 will surely throw away the opportunities 

 which have thus far been gained. 



The field in which first, and for many 

 years to come, a New Hampshire Forestry 

 Association can do most good is in educat- 

 ing the people of the State, and those 

 who, though citizens of other States, own 

 property in New Hampshire, up to an 

 understanding of the truth that forestry- 

 conservative and careful exploitation of 

 the woodlands is the only ground on 

 which the lovers of nature, so frequently 

 cried down as "sentimental," and the 

 lumbermen, as often maligned as "tree- 

 butchers," can meet. For on the one 



