of all of these industries to forestry is of the most intimate and 

 dependent kind. It is a matter for congratulation that so many of 

 these great industries are now waking up to this fact; the railroads 

 especially, managed as they are by men who are compelled to look 

 ahead, who are obliged by the very nature of their profession to 

 possess a keen insight into the future, have awakened to a clearer 

 realization of the vast importance of the economic use both of timber 

 and of forests. 



Even the grazing industry, as it is carried on in the great West, 

 which might at first sight appear to have little relation to forestry, 

 is nevertheless closely related to it, because great areas of winter 

 range, available and good for winter grazing, would be absolutely 

 useless v, ithout the summer range in the mountains where the forest 

 reserves lie. 



As all of you know, the forest resources of our countr}- are alread}^ 

 seriously depleted. They can be renewed and maintained only b}^ the 

 cooperation of the forester with the practical man of business in all 

 his types, but above all, with the lumberman. And the most striking 

 and encouraging fact in the forest situation is that lumbermen are 

 realizing that practical lumbering and practical forestry are allies, not 

 enemies, and that the future of each depends upon the other. The 

 resolutions passed at the last meeting of the representatives of the 

 lumber interests, which occurred here in Washington, were a strik- 

 ing proof of this fact and a most encouraging feature of the present 

 situation. So long as we could not make the men concerned in the 

 great lumber industry realize that the foresters were endeavoring to 

 work in their interest, and not against them, the headway that could 

 be made was but small. AVe shall be able to work effectively and 

 bring about important results of a permanent character largely in 

 proportion as we are able to convince those men, the men at the head 

 of that great business, of the practical wisdom of what the foresters 

 of the United States are seeking to accomplish. 



In the last anah^sis, the attitude of the' lumbermen toward your 

 work will be the chief factor in the success or failure of that work. 

 In other words, gentlemen, I can not too often sav to you, as, indeed, 

 it can not be too often said to any body of men of high ideals and 

 good scientific training Avho are endeavoring to accomplish work of 

 worth for the country, that 3'ou must keep your ideals high and yet 

 must seek to realize them in practical ways. 



The United States is exhausting its forest supplies far more rapidly 

 than they are being produced. The situation is grave, and there is 

 only one remedy. That remed}^ is the introduction of practical forestry 

 on a large scale, and of course that is impossible without trained men, 

 men trained in the closet, and also by actual field work under practical 

 conditions. 



