THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



" A field hitherto narrow but continually 

 broadening, and offering much opportunity 

 for those with peculiar qualifications, is the 

 management of the cooperative forest work 

 carried on by timber owners in many locali- 

 ties, often jointly with State and Govern- 

 ment. This movement originated in the 

 Pacific Northwest, where it still has the high- 

 est development, but is extending to the 

 Lake States, New England, and Canada. 



" As a rule the primary object of these 

 cooperative associations is fire prevention 

 and their local managers must have demon- 

 strated ability to organize eff'ective patrol 

 systems, build telephone lines, apply every 

 ingenuity to supplying and equipping their 

 forces, and, above all, to handle men in 

 emergencies. But in most cases the associa- 

 tion of forest owners to this end has led 

 also to progress in many other matters in- 

 separable from improvement, such as study 



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