THE BOOK OF FORESTRY 
PART I 
CHAPTER I 
WHAT IS FORESTRY? 
WHat scenes come to your mind when the word 
forestry is mentioned? Do the figures of Robin Hood 
and his merrie band clad in Lincoln green pass be- 
fore your eyes; do the rifle shots of pioneers like Boone 
and Crockett ring in vour ears, or do the stirring scenes 
of a logging camp with its busy axmen and straining 
horses and its manifold activities pass before your eyes? 
Whichever scene this magic word conjures up, it is safe 
to say it is tinged with romance and rich in adventure. 
Now let us see what forestry really is. 
Forestry Defined.—-Forestry is the raising of repeated 
crops of timber upon soils unsuited to agriculture and 
has been extended to inetude the proper using of these 
forest crops. Forestry is not agriculture because agri- 
eulture has to do with tillable fields and level land, 
whereas the forester concerns himself with land too 
steep or too stony to till or too barren to raise farm 
crops. Thus forestry and agriculture are separate and 
distinct. Both are concerned with land and a proper 
practice of both agriculture and forestry is necessary 
that every acre of land in this country shall be put to 
its best permanent use. 
