THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



utilize the forage which the National Forests 

 produce, and yet do little or no harm to the 

 young growth on which the future of the 

 forest depends. To exclude the grazing 

 animals altogether is impossible and unde- 

 sirable, for to do so would ruin the leading 

 industry in many portions of the West. 

 Consequently, many of the most difficult and 

 perplexing questions in the practical ad- 

 ministration of the National Forests have 

 occurred in the work of the Branch of 

 Grazing, and have there been solved, and 

 many of the most bitter attacks upon it have 

 there been met. 



The fifth branch, that of Lands, has to do 

 with the questions which arise from the use 

 of the land in the National Forests for 

 farming or ranching, mining, and a very 

 wide variety of other purposes, and with the 

 exceedingly numerous and intricate ques- 

 tions wliich arise because there are about 



