The technical education of the American forester aims principally to teach him how to raise and use timber. This is obviously proper. Handling timber lands is his major function. But when the forester begins actual work on a forest he is called upon to solve a much broader problem. He is charged with the duty of putting land to its highest use.

In: Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott, The River of the Mother of God, Forestry and Game Conservation (p. 53), The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. 1991