THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



the care and transplanting of the young trees 

 until they are set out on the site of the future 

 forest, forms a task of absorbing interest. 

 Such work often requires a high degree of 

 technical skill. It is likely to occupy a 

 larger and larger share of the time and 

 attention of the trained men of the Forest 

 Service. 



The Forest Assistant's or Examiner's 

 knowledge of surveying makes it natural for 

 him to take an important part in the laying 

 out of new roads and trails in the forest, or 

 in correcting the lines of old ones, and there 

 is little work more immediately useful. The 

 forest can be safeguarded effectively just in 

 proportion to the ease with which all parts 

 of it can be reached. Forest protection may 

 be less technically interesting than other 

 parts of the Forester's work, but nothing 

 that he does is more important or pays 

 larger dividends in future results. 



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