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A Brief History Of Forestry In Europe, The United States And Other Countries
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A Brief History Of Forestry In Europe, The United States And Other Countries
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Bernhard Eduard Fernow
University Press, 1913
Forestry; Forestry, History; Forests and forestry
(Excerpt from Lectures on Forestry
The lectures which fol...)
Excerpt from Lectures on Forestry
The lectures which follow were delivered during the last week of January, and were attended by the advanced students of engineering, economics and biology. They were fully reported by the leading newspapers of Canada, and forestry at once became a subject of discussion in the public press. It was everywhere recognized that the School of Mining had made an important advance in education, and that these lectures, the first course on forestry given in Canada, were to be re corded as a historical event of great significance, marking as they did the beginning of a new outlook upon one of our greatest industries.
At the close of the lectures a committee of lumbermen and other friends of the movement was formed to assist in establishing the School of Forestry. The names of the committee are given below. The local mem bers of this committee decided to print and publish the lectures, and this has now been done with the sanction of the Board of Governors.
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Bernhard Eduard Fernow was the third chief of the USDA's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 to 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much of the groundwork for the establishment of the United States Forest Service in 1905.
Background
Bernhard Eduard Fernow was born in Inowrazlaw, Posen, Germany. His father, who held a distinguished position in the service of the Prussian government, was a man of unusual culture both in literature and music and his home was a musical center for some of the most renowned artists of the time.
Education
Bernhard Fernow received his education at the gymnasium at Bromberg, the University of Königsberg, and the Hanover-Miinden Forest Academy.
Career
He served as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. After the war he entered the Prussian forest service, and, before coming to America in 1876, had attained the grade of Forstkandidat.
When young Fernow reached the United States, eager to practise his chosen profession, he found that forestry was almost unknown. There had been some legislative effort to encourage the planting of trees on the prairies and elsewhere, but the conception of forestry as applied to the protection and perpetuation of existing forests was new in America.
A few far-sighted scientists and others had urged the necessity for a better handling of forest resources, but no steps had been taken to check the forest fires and the wasteful methods of exploitation of timber. Bernhard Fernow found a pioneer field of endeavor.
In 1878 he was employed as manager of a large tract of land in Pennsylvania owned by the Cooper-Hewitt mining interests, a post which he held for seven years. He began at once to write articles about forestry. He soon attracted the attention of scientists and others who were interested in the subject, and was called into consultation in connection with various proposals for forest legislation.
In 1882 he was instrumental in organizing the American Forestry Congress (later the American Forestry Association), which consistently has been one of the most influential national agencies for the promotion of forestry. He was secretary of that organization for twelve years. In 1886 he was appointed chief of the Division of Forestry in the United States Department of Agriculture.
Congress authorized the withdrawal of forest lands from the public domain in 1891, but six years more were required to secure the needed legislation making provision for the care of the federal forest reserves.
The law as finally passed in 1897 carried the principles that Fernow had outlined in his early proposals.
In 1898 he retired from the government service, to organize at Cornell University the first collegiate school of forestry in the United States.
The State of New York acquired a large tract of land in the Adirondack Mountains, as an instructional and demonstration forest for the new school. A conflict of opinion arose in a few years over the methods of handling the tract, and the controversy resulted in the withdrawal in 1903 of the State’s support of the project in the Adirondacks and also of the School of Forestry. During the next four years Fernow engaged in a private consulting practise.
He advised private timber landowners regarding their special problems; he conducted exploration in the West Indies and Mexico; he gave courses of lectures at the Yale School of Forestry in 1904; and in 1906 inaugurated the work of forestry at the Pennsylvania State College.
As emeritus professor he continued to live in Toronto, in close association with the school which he had founded, until his death in 1923.
His most important books were; Economics of Forestry (1902) ; A Brief History of Forestry in Europe, the United States, and Other Countries (1907); and The Care of Trees, in Lawn, Street and Park (1910).
In addition he prepared or edited over fifty government and other bulletins and circulars and had to his credit over two hundred articles and addresses on subjects relating to forestry.
He was responsible for the establishment in 1902 of the Forestry Quarterly, the organ of the Society of American Foresters, and was the editor of that publication and of its successor, the Journal of Forestry, until 1922.
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Views
He vigorously attacked the neglect of the forests on the public domain and proposed specific legislative measures for their conservation. It was largely due to Fernow’s efforts that legislation was finally enacted for the establishment of the present system of National Forests.
Personality
Fernow was a vigorous writer and public speaker. Fernow was a thorough scholar in science and was widely read in literature and philosophy. He was also an accomplished musician. An enthusiast with deep convictions, and possessed of an argumentative disposition, he was frequently a center of professional controversy. He retained, however, the respect of those who differed with him. He was a great teacher, inspiring his students to a high standard of scholastic endeavor and to the best professional ideals.
Connections
In 1879 he was married to Olivia Reynolds of Brooklyn, New York, who survived him. There were five children of this marriage, four sons and one daughter.