THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



present United States Forest Service, of 

 more than three thousand members. During 

 this period, also, forestry, both as a profes- 

 sion and as a public necessity, has won en- 

 during public recognition, and at the same 

 time more public timberland has been set 

 aside for the public use and to remain in 

 the public hands than during all the rest of 

 our history put together. To-day the Na- 

 tional Forests are reasonably safe in the 

 protection of public opinion, not against all 

 attack, it is true, but against any successful 

 ' attempt to dismember and turn them over 

 to the special interests who already control 

 the bulk and the best of our forests. The 

 public has accepted forestry as necessary to 

 the public welfare, both in the present and 

 in the future ; State forest organizations are 

 springing up ; forestry has won the right to 

 be heard in the business offices as well as in 

 the conventions of the private owners of 



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