I i (REST SCH< H |. \i .| ES 



' '75 



COLORADO SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 



ALTHOUGH forestry in this 

 country i- comparatively a new 

 science, the progrc-- that has 

 been inatk- is \\< >n<lerful. The forc.-t 

 were in the beginning chielly young 

 men who had been trained according to 

 the principles in vogue in Kuropc, and 

 the conditions are so different in this 

 country that these principle- had to be 

 considerably modified to meet our own 

 needs. Practically all the first work- 

 was necessarily of an experimental na- 

 ture. Of course, mistakes were made, 

 yet under the conditions it is gratifying 

 that there were not more. 



In a country of nearly 4,000,000 

 square miles, with climatic conditions 

 varying from those of the tropics to 

 those of the arctics, with regions of 

 abundant rainfall and others of prac- 

 tically no rainfall, with bare rocky 

 mountains, broad fertile valleys, and 

 extensive plains, and with forests richer 

 in species than those of any other coun- 



trv of similar latitude.-, it is indeed a 

 problem to work out the varxin- need- 

 of tin- forests and the relation ,,f tl. 

 forests to tin- country. Hampered by 

 public opinion, iv-trictrd by in-ufiicient 

 appropriation-, and. above all, with a 

 derided lack <>l' trained men to carry 

 on the \\ork. the progre-- tha: has been 

 made in fore-tr\ in thi- country i- cer 

 lainly beyond all expectation-. I'.ut 

 under the guidance of competent lead 

 ers, \\ho were untiring workers and 

 men of remarkably keen fore-ight. the 

 fundamental principles which -hould 

 guide the work have been derived with 

 exceptional rapidity. 



The people have been taught tin- 

 necessity of pre-erving the foiv-t. and 

 public opinion no longer stands in the 

 way of progress. \Ve have learned tin- 

 lesson well. \\V have al-<> learned 

 much about the care of the foresl yet 

 this lesson is far from done. In the 

 matters of adequate appropriations and 





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