Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-16
FORESTRY IS
 PRACTISED IN
 ilI c0IINTRIEc ILL UUUIuiiIiIU
Many People Think It Had Never Been Tried Until the United States Rangers Got Busy.

Many people in thls country think tkst forestry had never been tried un- sti the government began to practice it upon the national forests. Yet for es1vy Ia practiced by every civilized country in the world. except China and Turkey. It gets results which can be got in DO other way, and which are necessary to the general welfare Forestry is not a new thing. It was discussed two thousand years ago, and 1t 4las been studied and applied with increasing thorough aess ever since
 The principles of forestry are ev- eFywhere the same. They rest on nat urai laws which are at work every where and all the time. It is simply a question of how best to apply these laws to fit local needs and conditions, No matter how widely countries may differ in size. climate. population, in dustry or government, provided only they have forests, all of them must come to forestry some time as a mattex of necessity.
 The more advanced and progress sive countries arrive first and go farthass into forestry. as they do in ether things. Indeed, we might al most take forestry as a yardstick with which to measure the height of a civilization On the one hand, the nations which follow forestry most widely and systematically would be found to be the most enlightened nations. On the other hand, when we applied our yardstick to such countries as are without forestry, we could say with a good deal of assur- ance, by this test alone, Here is a backward nation"
 A singular and suggestive excep- tion is England, which, though proyid- d with mountain and heath lands capable of producing large part or the wood for home consumption. has, with strange indifference, been lead. iag all nations in volume of wood iul- ports and depending mainly upon for eign sources for her supplies. Eng land has hitherto been able to count with certainty upon outside aid from such near neighbors as Norway and Sweden. This policy has seemed sat isfaetory to the people in spite of the examples of a more proyident policy afforded by rival nations almost at her door. The geographical and eco homie positions of the country have permitted the government, for the time at least, to ignore measures founs necessary for the public vel fare in other countries of the same rank
 The countries of Europe and Asia, taken together, have passed through aIi the stageG of forest history and applied all the known principles of forestry They are rich in forest ex- perienee. The lessons of forestry
 fhrva Er knocks Their forest systems were hardship. They did not first spin fine theories and then apply those theories by main force. On the con, trary, they began by facing disagree able facts Every step of the way to ward wise forest use, the world over has been made at the sharp spur oi want, suffering or loss. As a result the science of forestry is one of tho most practical and most directly use fu1 of all the sciences. It is a serious work, undertaken as a measure of re lief, and continued as safeguard against future calamity.
 Roughly, those countries which to day manage their forests on sound principles have passed through fou, stages of forest experience. At frs the forests were so abundant as to b. iH the way, and so they were eithel neglected or destroyed. Next, as set dement's grew and the borders of thu forests receded farther and farthe from the places where wood Wal needed and used, the question of lo cal wood supplies had to be faced and the forest was spared or evel protected. Third, the increasing nee of wood, together with better knowl edge of the forest and it's growth led to the recognition of the flores as crop, like agricultural crops