Esthetic Forestry 187 
In the larger woodland parks, finally, such as the Adiron- 
dack Forest Preserve, the rational manner of carrying an 
esthetic forestry is, after all, that which the German forester 
practises in those places where a large community has ready 
access to his industrial forest, and uses it incidentally as a 
pleasure ground. He has regard to both the material and 
esthetic interests of the forest, managing it for wood-crops 
and revenue without overlooking the pleasure it may afford; 
making it accessible by wagon and foot, providing springs 
and shady nooks with rustic resting places, and combin- 
ing, as architecture usually does, the beautiful with the 
useful. 
The forester’s road system may be none the less perfect 
from the purely utilitarian view because it meets the demands 
of art; the by-paths into the depths of sylvan recesses 
are not less useful because they may be made with due 
regard to pleasant windings and easy travel; the thrifty, 
young plantation will present aspects of beauty as well as 
of interest to the visitor not less delightful because of the 
frankly acknowledged purpose which it is finally to serve. 
Even the well-conducted logging operation will have its 
attraction to him who is not saddled with a monkey love 
of trees. Some of the picturesque effects of the crooked 
and gnarled specimens of oak and beech, the true forester 
will, to be sure, reduce to a minimum, but in the inspiring 
sublimity of lofty boles he will substitute other effects not 
less artistic because the utilitarian object is apparent. Fi- 
nally, the beauty of a well-conducted forest management 
with its system and order in the forest, as well as in the books, 
will appeal to the thoughtful visitor and, if he finds that all 
this pleasure can be had for nothing, nay, with a financial 
benefit, by which his taxes are reduced, he will bless those 
esthetic idealists, who starting from an entirely opposite 
