Rolt-Wheeler, Francis, 1876-1960 / 2008-09-17 00:00:00
EBOOK THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FORESTERS ***
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[Illustration: THE GIANTS OF THE FOREST AND THE MEN WHO SAFEGUARD THEM.
_Photography by U. S. Forest Service._]
U. S. SERVICE SERIES.
THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FORESTERS
BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
With Thirty-eight Illustrations from Photographs taken by the U. S.
Forest Service
BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
1910
To My Son Roger's Friend
WILBUR UFFORD
PREFACE
Much of the wilderness is yet but little trod. Great stretches of virgin
forest still remain within whose dim recesses nothing is changed since
the days the Indians dwelt in them. The mystery and the adventure are
not sped, the grandeur and the companionship still pulse among the
glades, the "call of the wild" is an unceasing cry, and to that call the
boy responds.
But if this impulse to return to the shelter of the wilds be still so
strong, how greatly more intense does it become when we awaken to the
fact that the forest needs our help even more than we need its sense of
freedom. When we perceive that the fate of these great belts of untamed
wilderness lies in the hands of a small group of men whose mastery is
absolute, when first we realize that national benefits--great almost
beyond the believing--are intrusted to these men, surely Desire and
Duty leap to grip hands and pledge themselves to the service of the
forests of our land.
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