CAREERS IN FORESTRY llvé 
supply numerous services to the public, including facilities for outdoor recre- 
ation, habitat for wildlife, watershed protection, a reservoir of work for 
local unemployed, and income to the community from forest products. 
Often the rehabilitation of a tract of cut-over or burned-over land can be 
undertaken as a community enterprise. Local public forests as living me- 
morials to war dead have been proposed in some communities. 
A number of schools maintain forests which not only serve as outdoor 
classrooms for the teaching of elementary forestry, conservation, and natural 
history, but provide an income to the schools from the growing and selling 
of forest products. The United States Forest Service is encouraging and 
cooperating in the establishment of community forests as part of a broad 
program of public forest development. 
The proper management of community forest properties naturally requires 
the services of trained foresters. At present, most of the community forest 
enterprises that are being given technical forestry advice or direction obtain 
such service from State foresters or Federal forestry agencies. ‘There is a 
growing tendency, however, toward the direct employment of trained for- 
esters as community-forest managers. 
Opportunities in Private Forestry 
Though Federal and State agencies, educational institutions, and semi- 
public associations will doubtless continue to lead in research and extension, 
the largest field for professional foresters in the long run will be in private 
work. Three-fourths of all the commercial forest land in the 48 contiguous 
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A logging-company forester, at left, discusses problems of handling logs with the two 
owners of the company, facinghim. A Forest Service officer takes part in the discussion, 
since timber sold from a national forest is being cut. 
