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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



As a result of the Franco-Prussian and companies, which formed a part 

 war, therefore, a law passed on July of the regular military force of the 

 27, 1872, made all forest officers a part nation, both in France and in Algeria. 

 of the army, subjected them to military In order to fit the higher grades of 

 law, and placed them at the disposal foresters to perform efficiently their 

 of the Minister of War or the Minister duties as army officers, an officer from 

 o'.' the Nav . In accordance with this the army was detailed by the Minister 



of War to the forest school 

 at Nancy to give military 

 instruction. When called to 

 military service, the various 

 higher forest officials assume 

 the following ranks in the 

 army: 



Conservator (conserva- 

 teur) Lieutenant Colonel. 

 Inspector ( inspecteur ) - 

 Major. 



Assistant inspector (inspec- 

 teur adjoint) Captain. 



Technical assistant (garde 

 general ) Lieutenant . 



Probationary technical 

 assistant (garde general stagi- 

 aire) Sub-lieutenant . 



The conservators and in- 

 spectors serve in their mili- 

 tary grades only as staff 

 officers, or in the quarter- 

 master's department, or on 

 special missions; while the 

 assistant inspectors and tech- 

 nical assistants may serve 

 either as staff officers or as 

 infantry officers in direct 

 charge of companies or sec- 

 tions. The non-commissioned 

 officers of the forest light 

 infantry (chasseurs f orestiers) 

 are chosen from among the 

 rangers (brigadiers) and some- 

 times the guards (gardes). 

 Guards who receive no ap- 

 pointment as subordinate 

 officers are ranked as soldiers 

 of the first class. 



For military purposes the 

 forest officers are divided 

 into two classes (1) those 

 assigned to the defense of the 

 fortresses within their districts, and 

 (2) those assigned to the various 

 sections and companies of the active 

 army. Undoubtedly in the present 

 war the foresters included in the first 

 class have been doing their part in the 



JUDEICH, A GERMAN FORESTER. 



THIS PICTURE OF ONE OF GERMANY'S MOST FAMOUS FORESTERS, LOOKS 

 MORE LIKE THAT OF AN ARMY OFFICER OF HIGH RANK THAN THE 

 AMERICAN CONCEPTION OF A FORESTER. JUDEICH WAS AT ONE 

 TIME DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTRIAN FOREST SCHOOL AT WEISWASSER 

 AND LATER OF THE GERMAN FOREST SCHOOL AT THARANDT. 



law a decree of April 2, 1875, with 

 various subsequent modifications, cre- 

 ated the military corps of forest light 

 infantry (chasseurs forestiers). This 

 decree organized the various higher 

 and lower forest officials into sections 



