Impression* of Carman 



following Extract 10 taken from a recent letter 

 from Y/llliam H* Gallaher, formerly Forest Assistant On this 

 Forest, gluing his impressions of German forests and thoir 

 treatment. We are taking the liberty of putting this extract 

 in the Tahoa on account of the characteristic way in vhioh it 

 is vrritton, and because we think that it will prove interesting 

 to everyone who reads it: 



"The first criticism one would make of north Cterman 

 forestry' is its everlasting and even tiresome simplicity 'and 

 sameness. It is merely out your wood, plant your trees, thin 

 periodically, and out again* A two days 1 trip through a pine 

 forest is 'the moat monotonous thing imaginable. Here you see 

 ton acros, ten ydare old; there, twenty acres, foritf years old; 

 again fifteen acres, ninety years old; or, ten aoros, onehhun- 

 dred and twenty years old, and just being out* 



One soon learns what a two-year old or fivo~year old 

 transplant looks like; and that's all there ie to it. Thinnings 

 aro simplicity itself, taking out poorly formed dominant and 

 suppressed trees. 



The systems, and consequently the appearances, of hard- 

 wood forests are sometfiat more varied. The germans use natural 

 regeneration in beech by the group or uniform fihelterwood system 

 with great success. ' They are even learning how to regenerate 

 oak naturally again, using the shelterwood system. It may sur- 

 prise you to learn that they are now experimenting with natural 

 regeneration of pine and hope to know something about it in 20 or 

 30 year.8. 



On many forests one sees sample plots for 'this study 

 which is now of greet interest here* Rather funny, eh? To 

 think of our talking wisely of how 'many seed trees it is correct 

 to leave per acre when the Germans, themselves, confess they 

 don't know what to do at present. 



The great object here is to obtain evtm~aged forests. 

 Hhe selection system has proved an absolute failure even with 

 the moat tolerant species. The shelterwood system is TOry 

 difficult to apply on account of the 'damage to the young crop 

 occasioned by the removal of the old. Unless the old crop is 



