FORESTERS IN THE GREAT WAR 



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FRENCH FOREST RANGER AND His WIFE. 



THE MILITARY APPEARANCE OF THE COAT IS AT ONCE APPARENT. IT IS BUT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE UNIFORM 

 OF THE FRENCH MILITARY OFFICERS OF MINOR RANK. THE HOUSE IN THE BACKGROUND IS OWNED BY THE 

 GOVERNMENT AND IS A TYPICAL FRENCH RANGER STATION. 



the many exemptions from military 

 service granted to educated persons in 

 Russia make it difficult to state defi- 

 nitely who of them are now at the front. 

 There is no doubt, however, that many 

 foresters are in active service for their 

 country. 



Another German forester who in all 

 probability is involved in the strife is 

 Prof. Fabricius, a comparatively young 

 man who has been in charge of the 

 work in silviculture in the forest school 

 at Munich since the death a few years 

 ago of Prof. Mayr, under whom many 

 American foresters have studied. 



Among the prominent French fores- 

 ters who are placed at the disposition 

 of the Minister of War as members of 

 the "chasseurs forestiers," and who 

 are therefore undoubtedly involved in 

 the war, are Cuif, Jacquot, and Cardot. 

 Cuif is associated as a professor with 

 Jolyet at the forest school at Nancy, 

 where they are in charge of the research 



and experimental work. Nancy has 

 been one of the main storm centers 

 since the beginning of the present war, 

 so that any French foresters who have 

 been involved in the operations in its 

 vicinity have been fighting for their 

 school as well as their country. Gifford 

 Pinchot first undertook the study of 

 forestry at this school, which has since 

 been visited also by other American 

 foresters. Jacquot is best known to 

 foresters in this country as the author 

 of an exhaustive book on the valuation 

 of forest fire damages (Incendies en 

 Foret) which was awarded a gold 

 medal. Cardot has written extensively 

 on forest influences and the reclama- 

 tion of denuded mountain lands, and 

 has also done much to arouse public 

 interest in forest preservation by the 

 publication of a popularly written, 

 attractively illustrated book known as 

 "L'Arbre." 



