THE LUMBERMAN'S INTEREST IN 

 FORESTRY 



BY 



N. W. McLEOD 



President, National Lumber Manufacturers' Association 



C UCH an assemblage as the one before me would 

 have been quite impossible ten years ago. The 

 lumberman and the forester were then far apart. So 

 long as forestry was regarded as merely scientific, but 

 little progress was made; but as it came largely 

 through the influence of our Bureau of Forestry, to 

 be more clearly understood as a musiness matter, the 

 prospect has brightened rapidly. The very fact that 

 this American Forest Congress has assigned one ses- 

 sion of its meeting to the discussion of the lumber 

 industry and the forests is excellent evidence that the 

 development of forestry is in the right direction. And 

 in developing an American system of forestry founded 

 upon sound business principles and adapted to local 

 conditions, the Bureau of Forestry is doing a very 

 important work. 



For a number of years at the annual meetings of the 

 various lumber manufacturers' associations, the 

 Bureau has been represented by some well equipped 

 member of its staff, who delivered an address of 

 interest and value to practical lumbermen. The 

 Bureau has in a large measure succeeded in convincing 

 the lumbermen that forestry is not antagonistic to the 

 lumbermen's interest, but in line with it. At present 

 while forestry is accepted tentatively, the individual 

 is backward about inaugurating an innovation in his 



