The Forester Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... to thenation at large, will be very great." The pamphlet concludes with a complete working plan for a wood lot at. Oakland, N. J., as set forth in detail by Henry S. Graves, superintendent of working plans. This is illustrated by two drawings and numerous tables summarizing the work done. The methodsof cutting recommended, the details of the cutting plan, and the rules which should be observed to secure the best, results from cutting, are given in condensed form. Notes on Some Forest Problems. The public standing of forestry has made notable progress in the last few years. Still the forester and the lumberman are often riot fully agreed. Yet "the forester, without the special knowledge of the lumberman, can never do effective work in preserving the forests by using them nor succeed in a money way; while without the methods of the forester the lumberman will speedily exhaust his supplies of timber and disappear with the forests he has destroyed." Forestry in the treeless West deals with the supply of water as well as wood, and consists largely in tree-planting. "At first blush such work might seem to fall outside the province of the forester, on the ground that it has to do with trees and not with forests. But when it is remembered that protection and wood supply are the two objects of the work, and how important a public service may be rendered by the introduction of better trees and better ways of planting them, it appears at once that this also is, one of the tasks of true forestry." After referring to the deplorable dispersion of the Government's forest work among three agencies, heavy taxes on timber land are characterized as "a premium on forest destruction, a premium that is doing more than any other single factor to hind...