THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



which affects the welfare of his country 

 should be indifferent to him. Forestry is a 

 form of practical statesmanship which 

 touches the national life at so many points 

 that no Forester can safely allow himself to 

 remain ignorant of the needs and purposes 

 of his fellow citizens, or to be out of touch 

 with the current questions of the day. The 

 best citizen makes the best Forester, and no 

 man can make a good Forester unless he is a 

 good citizen also. 



The Forester can not succeed unless he 

 understands the problems and point of view 

 of his country, and that is the reason why 

 Foresters from other lands were not brought 

 into the United States in the early stages 

 of the forest movement. At that time 

 practically no American Foresters had yet 

 been trained, and the great need of the situa- 

 tion was for men to do the immediately 

 pressing work. Foresters from Germany, 



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