. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York. Forests and forestry; Fisheries; Game and game-birds. C3ome European Pores! Scenes. By Dr. JOHN I T is highly important that every American forester should spend sometime in the forests of Europe. He should not confine his visits to Germany, but sojourn also in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and if possible Rus- sia. Aside from what he learns he needs the encouragement of meeting men in the same pro- fession in a region where its importance is recognized and w
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York. Forests and forestry; Fisheries; Game and game-birds. C3ome European Pores! Scenes. By Dr. JOHN I T is highly important that every American forester should spend sometime in the forests of Europe. He should not confine his visits to Germany, but sojourn also in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and if possible Rus- sia. Aside from what he learns he needs the encouragement of meeting men in the same pro- fession in a region where its importance is recognized and where there is some esprit de corps. One gets tired of explain- ing in a half apologetic way the nature of his profession. Intel- ligent people seem slow to grasp the scope and meaning of the science and art of forestry. This is excusable when we consider that some of our large cities have city-foresters without forests, and that even some American foresters have written to the effect that forestry and lumbering are practically identical, and that what the lumberman has done and is doing is perfectly right in that it seems perfectly adapted to the peculiar con- ditions which exist in this country; that true forestry is a long way in the future, etc. One soon begins to doubt the significance of the profession. After a few days sojourn in the Black Forest or in Saxony, however, or in fact in almost any part of Europe, he feels that he is in a noble profession and that the fault is with his countrymen and not with himself or his vocation. No man can know what is meant by forestry until he sees forests which have been well managed for a considerable period of time. Such forests do not exist in this 331 FAGOT-GATHERERS NEAR Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York (State). Commissioners of F
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