September 20, 2025

Responsibility for Public Attitude Toward Private Forestry

Key Points

The paper criticizes the U.S. Forest Service for its perceived superiority complex, negatively impacting public attitudes.
The author highlights how this attitude fosters suspicion among private forestry owners regarding the bureau's motives.
Foresters experience ridicule due to the Forest Service's approach, which lacks constructive engagement and helpfulness.
The goal is not to dismantle the Forest Service, but to encourage a shift from self-satisfaction to support for private forestry.

Abstract

Abstract The author is severely critical of the U. S. Forest Service. He believes that it suffers from a superiority complex which reacts against the best interests of "dirt" forestry, subjects foresters and forestry to ridicule and gives the private owner some cause for suspecting the real motives of the bureau. He writes: "There is no desire to break down the Forest Service, rather it is sought to break down the obvious smug self satisfaction and replace it with a constructive helpfulness."

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