. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. During the war, Dr. Schenck was in service in the German army. First in,Poland, where he was badly wounded, then, after his recov- ery, he had to do with prisoners of war; and later, for a time, was in Belgium. He left the army in 1917, before America entered the war. After the Armistice he was in charge, until about six months ago, of relief work for children under the direction of a Quaker or- ganization having its headquarters in Phila- delphia. At present
. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. During the war, Dr. Schenck was in service in the German army. First in,Poland, where he was badly wounded, then, after his recov- ery, he had to do with prisoners of war; and later, for a time, was in Belgium. He left the army in 1917, before America entered the war. After the Armistice he was in charge, until about six months ago, of relief work for children under the direction of a Quaker or- ganization having its headquarters in Phila- delphia. At present he is living at Linden- fels, neai' Darmstadt, Hesse, in which city he has his permanent home. It will be recalled that in the later years of the Biltmore Forest Academy, Dr. Schenck was in the habit of conducting his students both to certain of the European forests and also to various centers of the lumber industry in the United States. It was my good fortune to visit with him some of the forests that his peripatetic school used to frequent. I by no means saw all of the forests of Germany, and use as well and are removed from the forest, and (3) the permanent road system by which all parts of the forest are made accessible. It goes without saying that neither close utiliza- tion nor permanent reads would pay unless there were markets near at hand and a rela- tively dense population in close proximity to the forest. These things are functions one of the other. In Germany one has such condi- tions, with the result that it is possible profit- ably to practice extremely intensive manage- ment. These forests are interesting primarily as examples of what can be done in forest management where economic conditions war- rant highly intensive treatment. All the forests are of course under very definite and exact working plans. A revision of the plan is made every ten years and a grand revision each twenty years. The basic idea is that of sustained yield and care is tak- en not to exceed
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