THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



ployed to have or promptly to acquire a 

 knowledge of practical lumbering, that is, of 

 logging, milling, and markets, and for the 

 forest student who expects to enter this 

 work to give special attention to these 

 subjects. 



Already about 170 graduates of forest 

 schools are in private employ, a considerable 

 proportion of which number are employed 

 by large lumbermen. 



The time is undoubtedly coming, and I 

 hope it may come soon, when forest destruc- 

 tion will be legally recognized as hostile to 

 the public welfare, and when lumbermen will 

 be compelled by law to handle their forests 

 so a^ to insure the reproduction of them 

 imder reasonable conditions and within a 

 reasonable time. The idea is neither 

 tjo-annical nor new. In democratic Switzer- 

 land, private owners of timberland are re- 

 strained by law from destroying the forests 



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