. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 48o CONSERVATION as everything else is given, in utter gladness of heart. When the work of this generation is done, when the place of this new pro- fession is fully established among men, and when even these joyous fighting days of ours appear as remote as the cave-men and hairy mammoths, it may be that here and there in especially favored forests (of which may Sierra be one) there will be traditions still lingering that once, in the Days of the Beginnings, were very strenuous men who rode great horses everywhere, and boldly fought evil, and earnestly crea
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 48o CONSERVATION as everything else is given, in utter gladness of heart. When the work of this generation is done, when the place of this new pro- fession is fully established among men, and when even these joyous fighting days of ours appear as remote as the cave-men and hairy mammoths, it may be that here and there in especially favored forests (of which may Sierra be one) there will be traditions still lingering that once, in the Days of the Beginnings, were very strenuous men who rode great horses everywhere, and boldly fought evil, and earnestly created good-will, and so made possible that more scientific forestry of which they had only visions. Yes! it may even happen that here and there some granite boulders, or some great pine planted 300 years be- fore, on some ranger's grave, will say to all the world: "Here—just here—a nameless ranger laid down his life, just to help the forest that he loved. Just to maintain the great traditions of the ; And men, looking, will say to each other: "These were the verv foundation stones of the Temple of Forestry. It has been builded upon such lives as these, and on the lives of thousands of others to whom no chrism of martyrdom came, but who were just as faithful. All of them labored on in darkness as in light, in lean years as in fat ones, under withering criticisms, just as earnestly as in the sunshine of public praise. The Temple is builded because men could once run and ride, could fight and laugh, and live more keenly than we in these late ; Then, saying such things as these, men will envy us of this very year, for- getting our many mistakes. We shall lie among our rocks as Beowulf in his sea-mound, seen from afar, a guide to the ships and a word in the mouths of men. On the Trail in the High Country. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appea
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