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estry as a F ad — Maintaining Tracts of Wilderness — Katjonal 

 Parks — F orest Reserves — Their Management — A Well-meant 

 'Tilistake in New York — Geological Surveys and Experiment Sta- 

 tions — Forestry Division of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture — Biltmore — Silvicultural Forestry Elsewhere — The 

 American Forestry Association — Forestry Publications — Attitude 

 of the Lumber Interest. 



CHAPTER XII 



Forestry as a Profession 245 



What Is a Forester — Fundamental Training of Foresters — The 

 Artisan and the Professional Man — Non-Professional Students^— 

 The New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University — 

 Forestry School at Biltmore — The United States Forestry Division 

 and Education — Forestry at Agricultural Colleges — Forestry in 

 the Universities — Chances of Employment for Trained Foresters 

 — Attractiveness of the Profession of Forestry — The Kind of Men 

 Needed — Forestry and the Nation — Recapitulation — Conclusion. 



Index 263 



