THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



such as Palestine, Greece, Northern Africa, 

 and Central India, offer in themselves the 

 most impressive object lessons of the effect 

 upon national prosperity and national char- 

 acter of the neglect of the forest and its con- 

 sequent destruction. 



THE FORESTER'S POINT OF 

 VIEW 



The central idea of the Forester, in hand- 

 ling the forest, is to promote and perpetuate 

 its greatest use to men. His purpose is to 

 make it serve the greatest good of the great- 

 est number for the longest time. Before the 

 members of any other profession dealing 

 with natural resources, the Foresters ac- 

 quired the long look ahead. This was only 

 natural, because in forestry it is seldom that 

 a man lives to harvest the crop which he 

 helped to sow. The Forester must look f or- 



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