FOREST POLICIES OF FOREIGN NATIONS. 2S5 



and trained, schools were established to furnish 

 the recruits for this steadily growing service. 

 There is one at Cooper's Hill, England, where 

 a thorough course is intended to prepare men for 

 the superior staff positions, and the Imperial school 

 at Dehra Dun, which is to supply the great num- 

 ber of the executive staff, the young men starting 

 in usually as guards or rangers at a pay of about 

 $25 per month, working their way up to places 

 worth $50 per month, and if well suited, ehgible 

 for further promotion. In the Dehra Dun school 

 and the executive staff, the native- element is fast 

 making itself felt, and there is Httle doubt that the 

 men of India will soon be able to manage the for- 

 ests of their own native land. 



In most of the English colonies, there exist also 

 beginnings of a forest pohcy, and in several of them, 

 at least, forestry departments, albeit inefficient or 

 impotent, as in Neiv South Wales, whose timber 

 wealth, originally enormous, is now rapidly deterio- 

 rating under a loosely managed license system, 

 although the department of agriculture and for- 

 estry employs some 350 "foresters " and assistants 

 on the 5,500,000 acres of forest land belonging to 

 the government. 



Similarly in Western Attstralia, the conservator 

 of the department of woods and forests is appar- 

 ently powerless to extend any improved system of 

 utilization over the 20,000,000 acres of woodlands 

 to which the magnificent Eucalypts, especially the 



