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of Vermont, both are engaged in forestry. Even 

 the rich man who fences off a tract of woodland 

 for a game preserve is a forester. In no country 

 of the world has forestry in one form or another 

 played so important a part as in the United States 

 and Canada. 



If forestry is nothing more than that, then why 

 all this hue and cry, this agitation by word and 

 pen, this petitioning of legislatures and spending 

 of money which has been going on all over the 

 country for the last twenty years or more ? The 

 answer is that forestry in this country need not be 

 introduced, but its methods must be reformed. In 

 the rapid changes of conditions which the develop- 

 ment of our country has brought about, prevail- 

 ing methods of forestry have become antiquated. 

 What was once the most advantageous way of 

 utilizing woodlands has become wasteful and in 

 the end ruinous to us as a nation, and often to 

 the individual land-owner. Therefore the per- 

 sons who have realized these changed conditions 

 are anxious to disseminate amon^ the people a 

 better knowledge of the facts and principles con- 

 cerning the best treatment of forest property, and 

 wherever necessary to cause the passage of laws 

 designed to further this end. 



If forestry is nothing more thah the utilization 

 of forests, it necessarily follows that improved 

 methods cannot be inimical to the interests of 

 forest owners. That is the best method of for- 

 estry which is to the greatest advantage of the 



