690 Canadian Forestry Journal, August, ujjd 



ground and preventing the white means and its possible place in our 



pine from coming in. This led to a present day logging operations on 



change in our silvicultural practice, land that is more profitable for tim- 



Instead of sacrificing the larch — a ber growing than for agriculture, has 



tree of the future which probably in led many a timber owner to give 



the next ten years will come into up silviculture as an impractical and 



its own — as well as rendering unfa- unprofitable thing, and many a 



vorable the conditions for regenerat- forester to become discouraged in 



ing the pine, most of the larch is the future of his own profession, 



now left on the ground to wait for Even some forest schools have fal- 



a better market and meanwhile act len victims to this misconception, 



as a protector to the young pine and, instead of training men thor- 



growth. In this case the practice of oughly grounded in fundamental 



silviculture not only meant better knowledge and thus adapted to the 



reproduction of the forest, but also practice of the kind of silviculture 



greater revenue to the government which is really needed, have begun 



and simpler and cheaper logging to to flirt with logging engineering, 



the operator. This silvicultural blacksmithing, and what not; and 



practice is as advantageous on pri- apparently are trying to develop a 



vately owned pine-larch forests as it new type of professional men — a 



has proved to be on the government cross between a lumber jack and a 



owned forests. As a matter of fact "half-baked" engineer. And this 



it was the observation of what fol- forest school product is what they 



lows the cutting out of the pine and adorn with the diploma of bachelor 



leaving the larch, as practiced by or even master of forestry. There 



lumbermen on their own lands, that are already enough lumber jacks 



led to the conclusion that such a and mediocre engineers in the world, 



practice is not only economical and and no high grade school is needed 



profitable, but also silviculturally to produce them. Engineering as a 



sound. profession is now so highly de- 



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In Hand With Logging. ^^^^^^^^ ^^ become proficient in it and 



These examples, I believe, show specialize in logging machinery and 

 that silviculture must go hand in other phases of logging engineering, 

 hand with logging. If I mav be al- will find a technical school of high 

 , , J • 1 J c •4.-^ ^ standmg better suited for his pur- 

 lowed some paradoxical dennitions, ^\ 4.u x .. u i 

 ^ VI pose than the average forest school 



I would define ' silviculture as log- ^g now organized. The result of 

 ging that leaves the ground in a such a flirtation, I fear, can be only 

 condition capable of restocking; and that these forest schools will pro- 

 would define "logging" as the prac- ^^'^e neither good engineers nor 

 tical application of silviculture. To S^^^ foresters. The country does 

 be a successful logger of lands which "^ed, however, professional men 

 are to be retained in forests one must ^ho have a clear understanding of 

 be a keen silviculturist, and to be a ^^""^ limitations which economic con- 

 successful silviculturist one must be f^itions of the lumber industry im- 

 a skilful logger. Therefore, when P^^e upon the practice of silvicul- 

 lumbermen tell you that the kind ^^^^^^ ^ho have a fundamental and 

 of foresters they want are those who thorough training behind them, 

 can log and not those who know ^ho are free from doctnnainsm 

 silviculture, and yet profess that ^ho are capable of evolving simple 

 thev \\:ish to keep their woods going and practical methods of utilizing 

 and producing timber, they are not *^"^' woods and at the same time pro- 

 picking the right man. Thi's miscon- viding for their perpetuation, 

 ception of what silviculture really TContinued in September Issue.) 



