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higher. The Bureau has fallen into no rut of routine 

 in field work. Its methods in the field and in the office 

 as well are thus showing year by year improvement 

 which corresponds directly with the added experience 

 of its men and the added funds at its disposal. The 

 net result is a constant gain in effectiveness. 



I have said very little about the past achievement of 

 the Bureau because you have that in its bulletins, in its 

 reports, and you find it in the woods on the ground. 

 But unless I have entirely failed, the points I hope I 

 have made clear are these : that the policy of the 

 Bureau is to help every man in the use of the forest 

 or of its products; that the Bureau stands ready to 

 take up with you the solution of the forest problem 

 confronting you, whatever it may be, and to take it up 

 not academically, not theoretically, but practically, with 

 due regard not only for the preservation of the forest 

 but for the business advantage of the interests depen- 

 dent upon it. That point of view has alone made the 

 present achievement of the Bureau possible. It is a 

 guarantee of still wider usefulness in the future, 

 because it means that you and the Bureau can begin 

 the larger work ahead, can face new forest problems 

 as they come, not singly, as a purely governmental 

 enterprise on the one side, or by private endeavor on 

 the other, but together, in active and effective accord 

 on the same ground. 



