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Title: American forests
Identifier: americanforests20natiuoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: National Irrigation Association (U. S. ); New Jersey Forestry Association; South Jersey Woodmen's Association; American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Periodicals
Publisher: Washington (etc. ) American Forestry Association (etc. )
Contributing Library: Earth Sciences - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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GkRM,\N' FoREblRY SlUDENTS. A GROUP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH, TOGETHER WITH PROF. SCHUPFER, DR. EADRES, AND PROF. FABRICIUS. FORSTMEISTER HAPPACK OF THE KRAMSACH FOREST, STANDS IN THE FRONT ROW, WEARING THE TYPICAL MOUNTAIN COSTUME. THE BAVARIAN FORESTER By G. H. C0I.LINGW(X)D. (This article was written in Munich, Germany, by Mr. Collingwood, just before the outbreak of the war. Since that time a number of the Bavarian forest employes have joined their commands and have seen some brisk campaigning. Several Bavarian regiments were in the hard fighting in Alsace-Lorraine. The higher forest ofificials are exempt from military service, except in cases of extreme need. Whether any of them have been called to the front or are now under arms is not known.—Editor.) IN GERMANY the possibility of a Ranger raising- through the vari- ous stages of the Forest Service to that of Supervisor or District Officer is quite out of the question, for from the very beginning of their edu- cation the two officers follow along different courses. To be sure, they may both start in the public school together, but after four years in the Volksschule, as it is known, the fu- ture Forstmeister leaves to go into the gymnasium, while the future Ranger, or Forster as he is known in Bavaria, re- mains three years longer in the Volks- schule. He who hopes to be a Forst- meister must first choose parents who 626 can afford to give him the required education, and help support him for several years after he has secured a po- sition in the government Forest Serv- ice. In fact in Prussia there is a law which makes it necessary for a young forest man to have a sufficient income to make him financially independent during the first twelve years after leav- ing the Academy or University. The boy who leaves the Volksschule at the end of his fourth year to enter the gymnasium must remain there nine years before finishing. Forestry work, even in Germany, does not require any deep knowledge of Latin and Greek, so

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