Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1902-1902
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...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...