FOREWORD. 
THis memoir of an investigative tour of Western United States of 
America in 1916, dated 14th July, 1916, and now revised for publication, 
is dedicated to the Queensland Forest Service. 
To the suggestive criticism of Mr. N. W. Jolly, late Director of 
Forests, the publication owes much of what value it may have as 
a contribution to Australian forestry. 
For the data sontatued: I am deeply indebted to the extreme 
courtesy of H. 8. Graves, Esq., The Forester, United States of America ; 
District Forester Sileox and the many officers of District No. 1 of the 
United States of America Forest Service ; Dean Skeels and the Faculty 
of the Forest School, University of Montana ; Dean Winkenwerder and 
Professor Grondal of the Forest School, University of Washington ; Pro- 
fessor Mason, Forest School, University of California ; and others,through 
whose kind offices I was enabled to gather a vast amount of first-hand 
information of a most explicit character, and of absorbing interest to me 
as a forester. 
I was fortunate enough to be able to supplement my valuable 
experiences in United States of America Forest Service administration 
and Forest School practice by personal contact with and close observa- 
tion of large scale timber getting, manufacturing, and seasoning operations 
in various parts of Western North America, of tree propagating work at 
the fine Savenac Forest Nursery in Idaho, of forest planting projects on 
Lolo National Forest, of general forestry matters on the Missoula, Bitter- 
root, and Flathead National Forests, and of educational policies and 
methods at the Universities of Montana and Washington. 
In selecting from a chaotic mass of notes and data the material 
used for the purposes of this memoir, and in elaborating the matter so 
