THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



laid down for a timber sale are always the re- 

 production of the forest and its safety 

 against fire. Natural reproduction from 

 self-sown seed is almost invariably the result 

 desired ; and so the question of the seed trees 

 to be left, and how they are to be located or 

 spaced, is fundamental, unless there is ample 

 young growth already on the ground. In 

 the latter case this young growth must not 

 be smashed or bent by throwing the older 

 trees on top of it, or against it, and the young 

 saplings bent down by the felled tops must 

 be promptly released. 



In order to avoid danger to the young 

 growth already present or to be secured, as 

 well as to protect the older trees from fires, 

 the slash produced in lumbering, the tops 

 lopped from the trees up to and beyond the 

 highest point to which the lumbermen are 

 required to take the logs, must be satisfac- 

 torily disposed of — either by scattering it 



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