Forestry Quarterly, Vol. 13 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Forestry Quarterly, Vol. 13

Almost up to the present time the great work that has con fronted those engaged in putting forestry into practice in the United States has been the development of an adequate system for the administration of the enormous acreage that in the space of two decades has been made into National and State forests. The administrator and organizer has stood head and shoulder above all those engaged in forestry. The thorough student, the philosopher, the knower of the forest in a scientific sense has been lost Sight of among the builders of fences, trails and cabins. Far be it from me to criticize this Situation. It is the natural order of development. I Simply want to emphasize the brightness of the halo that it has placed upon the administrator and the shadow that it has cast for the time being upon the knower of the woods After our system of administration has been de veloped, our boundary lines run, our cabins built, and our land classification made, the halo of the administration will fall away in luster and the sun will Shine on the technician, because it is only through his efforts that our wild and scarred woodlands can in an orderly manner proceed toward a normal forest.

Although it has been but one or two years Since Gifford Pinchot remarked that forestry was advancing everywhere in the United States except in the woods, it is my firm belief that the past few years has experienced a notable advance in the woods. We are making progress toward a normal forest. This advance is notice able all along the line but mostly in national forestry, less in State forestry, and least of all in private forestry.

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