THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



This is knowledge the Forester can not 

 do without. Silvics is the foundation of his 

 professional capacity, and as a student he 

 can better afford to scamp any part of his 

 training rather than this. A man may be 

 a poor Forester who knows Silvics, but no 

 man can be a good Forester who does not. 



The practice of Silviculture has to do with 

 the treatment of woodlands. The forest 

 student must learn the different methods of 

 reproducing forests by different methods of 

 cutting them down, and the application of 

 these methods in different American forest 

 regions. There are also manj^ methods of 

 cutting for the improvement of the charac- 

 ter and growth of forests, as well as for 

 utilizing material that otherwise would go to 

 waste, before the final reproduction cuttings 

 can be made. The ways in which forests 

 need protection are equally numerous, and 

 of these by far the most important in our 



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