National parks in state forests.

Abstract

It is really a milestone in my life as a Forester, if I am a Forester, to meet the real Foresters of Ireland. When I think of the work I have done I have felt I have been working in the dark, unadvised, often laughed at, and never encouraged. It has been wonderful to me lately, having taken a few trips through parts of Ireland that I had not seen for thirty or forty years-for I am of an immense age-to see beginnings of forests. At all hours, day and night, I find myself running into little belts of forests, but I never meet Foresters. They seem to be something as fascinating and invisible as the fairies but their work is there and if I am speaking to anyone of them to-day, let me congratulate them...