. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. For the iirst two years of a course in forestry, the studeni for the most pari considers trees separately as indiviaual organizations, but in the second two }ears he is taught to look upon trees, Doth in regard 10 their life history and their economic relations, collectively as stands, types, forests. Just as the town is not merely an organization ot people, ,so the forest is not merely a collection of trees, but like the town is a commun- ity, an organization dependent for its (Jevelopment and growth upon certain externa
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. For the iirst two years of a course in forestry, the studeni for the most pari considers trees separately as indiviaual organizations, but in the second two }ears he is taught to look upon trees, Doth in regard 10 their life history and their economic relations, collectively as stands, types, forests. Just as the town is not merely an organization ot people, ,so the forest is not merely a collection of trees, but like the town is a commun- ity, an organization dependent for its (Jevelopment and growth upon certain external conditions and upon certain in- ternal conditions of its own making. In- deed, the simile may go a step farther, for in a town the organization, the structure remains intact, but the com- ponent individuals are constantly chang- ing, and so it is with the forest; the for- est is always a forest, unless destroyed by some catastrophe—but the individuals are slowly but constantly shifting in time and in space. Because men can comprehend tlie laws and conditions which bring about these changes in the forest, we have the profession of for- estry, since forestry is the fashioning, the moulding of a community of living trees to the needs of man, the application of brain power to the economic produc- tion of wood. Man has already applied his intelligence to the energy of lightning and falling water and directed it into economic channels, resulting in enor- mously increased wealth, so man can ap- ply his intelHgence to the energy of nature as expressed in the growing for- est and direct it into economic channels, and it would result in enormously in- creased wealth for our country. The possibilities in Canada are almost un- limited, and the results would be glori- ous—and profitable. Science in Forest Control This is the point of view in regard to the forest presented to the students dur- ing the last two years of their course, and they are shown in the forest as well as in the cl
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