The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-07-09
GRADUATES IN FORESTRY
Six Have Been Assigned to the Washing
ton-oregon District

VI the torty-seYen young graduates
Of nine American Forest Schools who
have just received appointments as
Forest Assistants in the Administrative
Districts in the Forest Service, six
have been assigned to positions in this
District. The names of these new
appointees and the schools from which
they are graduated in forestry are as
follows: E. H. MacDaniel, VIM. B.
Osborne, IT., and B. T. Harvey, Of
Yale; D. B. Reynolds, Of Michigan; S.
B. Hall, of Harvard, and E. J. Fenby,
of the Pennsylvania State College.
These men have secured their appoint
ments as a result of passing the regular
Civil Service examination, which is the
only avenue of employment as for
ester under the government.
Forest Assistants are men who have
completed their preliminary training
for the profession of forestry, as the
graduates Of law or medicine have
completed theirs, and are ready to
enter upon practical work. Until they
have gained experience, however, their
positions are necessarily subordinate.
They are at the foot Of the ladder and
must prove their fitness to mount
higher. The government pays them
$1,000 a year at the start.
On the National Forests the Forest
Assistant often acts as technical adviser
to the Supervisors in charge, who are
western men experienced in all prac-
teal matters, but usually without school
training in the science of forestry. Or
they may be assigned to the study of
some particular problem which needs
to be investigated in the interest OF
good forest management. As forestry
means knowing how to get the most
out Of any given piece of forest land,
it calls for studies and experiments,
both scientific and practical, much like
those which have to be made in the
interests of good farm management,
and the Forest Assistant is prepared to
do valuable work along this line.
There is a growing interest in the
profession of forestry now, and many
young men are asking how to get into
it, and what it promises. Clifford Pin
chot, United States Forester in an ad-
dress to the graduating class in forestry
at Harvard University this year, said:
The government and the country
need more men trained in the knowl-
edge of forestry, and it offers oppor-
tunity TO make a mans life loom large
and to count for much among the
many phases Of human endeavor. To
be a good forester a man should com
bine something of the naturalist with
good deal Of the business man. To
know how to use the forest he must be
able to study it. He must have, there
fore, the power of observation, a fond
ness for nature, and the ability to
penetrate her secrets. He must be
able to stand by himself,
willing to undergo the privations of
rough life, and capable Of commanding
the respect Of rough men, who quickly
recognize virility and genuineness OF
character, but will not tolerate pretense
or the assumption of superiority. A
forester should be sound in mind and
body, and should make the fullest col
lege preparation for the service. This
service means free, vigorous life in
the open air, and clear, straight, fine,
uhoIesone manly condition of life -