Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...bought it and took it to his home. He showed some very ludicrous snapshots of the bear in its youthful days. One of these was taken while the bear was playing football with a fex-terrier. Many of the lecturer's pictures illustrated the exciting life of the Maine lumberman. In the log jams the men balance themselves on the logs as they shoot the rapids. One of the pictures showed a lumberman smoking his pipe on the end of a log while he guided it down the stream...
...distinct and technical the training of a real forester must be very few people seem to understand. Even your editorial betrays a common misconception by speaking of the "esthetic side of the profession." A forester may have an esthetic side just as a lumberman may, but forestry itself is no more concerned with esthetic questions than is the lumber business. In fact in the east forestry is nothing but scientific lumbering. Its object is commercial. Its problems are expressed in terms of board feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing...