A contested past - Forestry education in the United States, 1838-1998

Many of today's arguments about forestry education proceed on the assumptio n that the past was glorious, the present is bleak, the future is doomed. I n fact, foresters have disagreed about the proper balance between academic and practical training since the days of Bernhard Fernow, Gifford Pinchot, and Carl Schenck. The two main options for education-depth in technical for estry and breadth in natural resource management-reflect equally old, and f undamentally opposing, views of forestry and the profession's place in soci ety.