Excerpt from Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters, Vol. 1: May, 1905 In the last analysis, the attitude of the lumberman toward your work will be the chief factor in the success or failure of that work. In other words, gentlemen, I cannot too often say to you, as, indeed, it cannot be too often said to any body of men of high ideals and good scientific training who are endeavoring to accomplish work of worth for the country, that you must keep your ideals high and yet seek to realize them in practical ways. The United States is exhausting its forest supplies far more rapidly than they are being produced. The situation is grave, and there is only one remedy. That remedy is the introduction of practical forestry on a large scale, and of course that is impossible without trained men, men trained in the closet, and also by actual field work under practical conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.