How Long to Read A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries

How Long Does it Take to Read A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 18 minutes to read A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries by Bernhard E. Fernow LL.D.

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The value of studying the historical development of an economic subject or of a technical art which, like forestry, relies to a large extent upon empiricism, lies in the fact that it brings before us, in proper perspective, accumulated experience, and enables us to analyze cause and effect, whereby we may learn to appreciate the reasons for present conditions and the possibilities for rational advancement. If there be one philosophy more readily derivable than another from the study of the history of forestry it is that history repeats itself. The same policies and the same methods which we hear propounded to-day have at some other time been propounded and tried elsewhere: we can study the results, broadening our judgment and thereby avoid the mistakes of others. Nowhere is the record of experience and the historic method of study of more value than in an empiric art like forestry, in which it takes decades, a lifetime, nay a century to see the final effects of operations. Such study, if properly pursued, tends to free the mind from many foolish prejudices and particularly from an unreasonable partiality for our own country and its customs and methods merely because they are our own, substituting the proper patriotism, which applies the best knowledge, wherever found, to our own necessities. Forestry is an art born of necessity, as opposed to arts of convenience and of pleasure. Only when a reduction in the natural supplies of forest products under the demands of civilization, necessitates a husbanding of supplies or necessitates the application of art or skill or knowledge in securing a reproduction, or when unfavorable conditions of soil or climate induced by forest destruction make themselves felt does the art of forestry make its appearance. Hence its beginnings occur in different places at different times and its development proceeds at different paces. In the one country, owing to economic development, the need of an intensive forest management and of strict forest policies may have arrived, while in another, rough exploitation and wasteful practices are still natural and practically unavoidable. And such differences, as we shall see, may even exist in the different parts of the same country. The origin and growth of the art, then, is dependent on economic and cultural conditions, on various economic development and on elements of environment. The development of the art can only be understood and appreciated through the knowledge of such environment, of such other developments as of agriculture, of industries, of means of transportation, of civilization generally.

How long is A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries?

A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries by Bernhard E. Fernow LL.D. is 254 pages long, and a total of 64,516 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries aloud.

What Reading Level is A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries?

A Brief History of Forestry in Europe the United States and Other Countries is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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