It is the object of this book to bring to the notice of the student, in as brief and simple a manner as possible, all matters of primary importance relating to the subjects which are commonly dealt with under the term Forest management. It is intended to displace the study of those authors who deal with these subjects individually at much greater length; but it does represent an endeavour to introduce the student to all the more important problems involved, to explain the elementary principles on which a fuller knowledge may be built up by lectures, reading and study of practices in the forest itself. The requirements of forest students of past generations in the above respect were met by Volume III of Schlich’s Manual of Forestry; But, now that that work is out of print, and, in some respects out of date, the necessity for some book on similar lies, which will economize the time of lectures in explaining and illustrating elementary matters, and of students in taking notes, is apparent.
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