THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



roads, trails, and bridges. He should be an 

 expert in woodcraft, able to travel the forest 

 safely and surely by day or by night. It is 

 essential that he should have a knowledge 

 of the theory and the practice of lumbering, 

 and he should know something about lumber 

 markets and the value of lumber, about sur- 

 veying and map making, and many other 

 matters which are considered more at length 

 in the Chapter on Training. There are as 

 yet in America comparatively few men who 

 have acquired even fairly well the more im- 

 portant knowledge which should be included 

 in the training of a Forester. 



THE FOREST AND THE NATION 



The position of the forest in the house- 

 keeping of any nation is unlike that of any 

 other great natural resource, for the forest 

 not only furnishes wood, without which 



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