Gunnison Valley News | 1919-10-31 | Page 3 | Modern Forestry Turns Against Word ''Woodlot'' in Professional Lingo

Modern forestry Turns Against Word "Woodl&t" in Professional Lingo Forestry is a now science, comparatively compara-tively speaking, and so it is not sur-I sur-I ! i s i 1 1 k lh:il ils loading exponents have jusl rc:i cL .m I the point of perfecting 1 lie language in which ils work is expressed. ex-pressed. 10 very profession has its peculiar pe-culiar vocabulary; in some cases the "lingo" is the most impressive feature of. the profession. One of the first steps taken in elevating ele-vating and dignifying the language of forestry is the banishment of the good old word "woodlot," says the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. It was more in use in New England than anywhere else and possessed u distinct meaning there that was well understood by the unlives. One forestry expert says that "woodlot" does not mean anything in sections of the country where a tract of forest may embrace thousands of acres. "We have nothing in the West," says Professor Cheney of the University Universi-ty of Minnesota, "that corresponds to this eastern expression." It is quite possible, however, that the real secret of the offensiveness of the word to professional ears is better explained by State ' Forester Holmes of North Carolina, who boldly declares lhat "to me 'woodlot forestry' sounds perfectly ridiculous." So it has been decreed that "woodlot" cannot be tolerated tol-erated In learned society. Removing it from the common speech of New England Eng-land is another matter.