France and Germany both have highly successful forestry systems.
Switzerland, Australia, and New Zealand are using their forests in a practical manner and saving sufficient supplies of wood for posterity.
History tells us that the forests first were protected as the homes of wild game.

Little attention was paid to the trees in those days.

The forests were places to hunt and abodes devoted to wild animals.

Scientific forestry was first studied and practised widely in the nineteenth century.

Its development and expansion have been rapid.