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(I). WHAT IS FORESTRY? 



Public opinion identifies the term "forestry" in the prairies with 

 tree-planting; in the lumber states with lumbering; in the east with 

 conservative forestry. 



Conservative forestry is lumbering with a view to re-lumbering, or, 

 what is the same thing, lumbering for assets. 



The Century Dictionary defines " forestry " as " the art of forming 

 or of cultivating timber, or of the management of growing timber." 



Doctor Fernow, in Bulletin No. S, 1891, says: "Forestry is the 

 art of producing or reproducing certain useful material, or else, to sus- 

 tain or possibly improve certain useful conditions." 



Doctor Schenck wants to give as broad a definition as possible 

 when saying: " Forestry is any treatment, the object of which is 

 woodland." This definition covers prairie planting, lumbering, park 

 forestry, governmental forestry, good and bad forestry. In the case 

 of the investor, the treatment referred to is the developing of unde- 

 veloped and the management of developed forestal investments, pro- 

 vided that the owner intends to practice conservative forestry. 

 Whether forestry, in a given locality practiced by the owner of a 

 given forest, is good or bad, depends merely upon personal opinion. 

 Unfortunately, the eastern forestry enthusiasts have continuously con- 

 demned destructive forestry (lumbering), in spite of the fact that 

 local conditions — forest fires and taxation — in many a case did not 

 leave the owner any other choice. 



Forestry is both science and practice, like engineering, medicine, 

 law, etc. As a -science, it is based on other sciences of a more element- 

 ary character, which are arranged by Professor Hess, one of the 

 German lights, iij the following schedule: 



