West Virginia University Division of Forestry - Cruiser Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY fContinuedJ Progress continued but generally at a decelerated pace. Twenty years later we find a fully accredited For- estry Division at the University but one greatly in need of more adequate facilities and faculty. The graduates are sought after wherever foresters are wanted. Those who pioneered in the field of private industry and consult- ing forestry have well earned the respect of employers and clients on a professional basis. The state employs foresters in several departments and programs, but, in what some people call true bureaucratic fashion, requests are continually made for an expansion in organization. Federal agencies have increased the number of foresters in several instances and will still argue for more. And so it goes! But all the while foresters are making friends and performing services that are becoming to the profession. The number of foresters in the state has more than quadrupled in twenty years and the profession is still young in West Virginia. And now that forestry is about to become a confirmed and accepted profession, what is the responsibility of the individual forester to his profession? I am not thinking particularly of a code of ethics, the code adopted by the Society of American Foresters is acceptable. Sure we have an obligation to the forestry profession through its society and even the individual members. There is the usual loyalty and performance every employer has the right to expect, and also the responsibility of the forester to himself to keep informed on advancing professional matters, or in just plain words, keeping up. Technological advances in this modern age require this of all technicians. There is also a responsibility to the home, church and community, and still another responsibility which I firmly believe the forester has. This responsibility is to the forest resources with which most foresters will be concerned throughout their professional career. When we listen seriously to the forecasters of population increases and demands on all resources within the next generation, we can become frightened by what lies ahead. I could very easily become a pessimist if I did not know that some of this nation's best brains will be at the helm to steer a steady course. Even with the most capable professional foresters calling the shots, it will not be easy to meet the demand for forest products with an adequate supply. Our forest resources are perhaps the most controversial of our natural resources because of the varied inter- ests of many groups. The varied interest groups will present many problems to both the forest managers and people in policy making positions. Few, if any, decisions will be made that will receive unanimous acclaim. Some groups want vast areas set aside for wilderness and perpetuated as such, while other groups want forested watersheds left untouched for a water supply. Certain groups look at a forest only for the ,products that it can produce. And so it is that a forest means different things to different people. There is a challenge to every forester entering the profession to uphold the principles of multiple use man- agement in order that all the needs will be met. This applies to public as well as private holdings. The philos- ophy of good stewardship must be developed in the management practices of forest landowners if successive gen- erations are to inherit the potential to equal our present standards of living. Landowning foresters have a responsibility, perhaps greater than other owners, to demonstrate good stewardship and to encourage its principles to be used on all lands. Shouldn't foresters look upon their professional as a sort of privilege which carries de- finite moral, social and spiritual responsibilities, in the management of these God-given resources? The responsibilities are staggering as we face them today, but I believe the devotion of today's foresters, and the ones to follow, will meet them head on. Let us consider a thought from an old addage and propose that all forest landowners live each day as if he were going to die tomorrow, but to manage his forests as if he were going to live forever. 23

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