THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



swollen stream. Good sense is the first con- 

 dition of success. I am merely saying that 

 in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, when 

 a thing ought to be done it can be done, if 

 the effort is made with that idea in mind. 



All this is but one way of saying that the 

 Forester should be his own severest task- 

 master. The Forester must keep himself up 

 to his own work. In no other profession, to 

 my knowledge, is a man thrown so com- 

 pletely on his own responsibility. The 

 Forester often leads an isolated life for 

 weeks or mopths at a time, seeing the men 

 under whom he works only at distant inter- 

 vals. Because he is so much his own master, 

 the responsibility which rests upon him is 

 peculiarly his own, and must be met out of 

 the resources within himself. 



The training of a Forester should lead 

 him to be practical in the right sense of that 

 word, which emphatically is not the sense of 



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