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chosen, my endeavour has been to present it in such explicit and 
readable form as to make readily available the lessons it holds for the 
pioneering Australian forester. 
I have accompanied the exegetic chapters with a series of sug- 
gestions, based on a combined Australian-American experience, for the 
extension of forestry systems in this country. 
I do not venture to believe that these suggestions represent the 
“last word” in Australian forestry, or that all of them can be put into 
operation in the immediate future. My hope is that they may prove 
suggestive, and conduce to due preparation and planning. The fact that 
basic conditions in America are practically parallel with those existing in 
Australia renders American experience particularly interesting. 
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The concluding recommendations contained herein were made 
available to the N.S.W. Government in 1916 in connection with the 
reorganisation of the Forest Service of that State. 
E. H. F. 8. 
15/4/18. 
