THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



achievement, and any man who proposes to 

 enter the profession should do so with this 

 fact clearly in mind. 



The high standard which the profession of 

 forestry, new in the United States, has 

 already reached, its great power for useful- 

 ness to the Nation, now and hereafter, and 

 the large responsibilities which fall so quickly 

 on the men who are trained to accept it — 

 all these things give to the profession a posi- 

 tion and dignity which it should be the first 

 care of every man who enters it to maintain 

 or increase. 



To stand well at graduation is or ought to 

 be far less the object of a Forester's train- 

 ing than to stand well ten or twenty years 

 after graduation. It is of the first import- 

 ance that the training should be thorough 

 and complete. 



A friend of mine, John Muir, used to say 

 that the best advice he could give young men 



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