THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



or with some other of the thousand questions 

 which give a never-failing interest to work 

 in the woods. 



The protection of a valuable kind of tree 

 often depends upon the ability to find a use 

 for, and therefore to remove, a less-valuable 

 species which is crowding it out, for as yet 

 the American Forester can do very little cut- 

 ting or thinning that does not pay. Just so, 

 the protection of a given tract against fire 

 may depend upon the ability to use, and 

 therefore to remove, a part or the whole of 

 the dead and down timber which now makes 

 it a fire trap. For such reasons as these, the 

 uses of wood and the markets for its dis- 

 posal form exceedingly important branches 

 of study for the Forest Examiner, who will 

 usually find that his duties require him to be 

 thoroughly familiar with them. 



It is more and more common to find each 

 Forest Officer — Ranger, Forest Examiner, 



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