sentences:  One of these young men was Fred W. Besley, who six years later would become Maryland's first State Forester and establish one of the first state forestry agencies in the nation.Begun in 1906, Besley's thirty-six year tenure as State Forester helped place Maryland as one of the Nation's leaders in forest conservation.His appointment coincided with the birth of the state forest system in Maryland that was established by the donation of of forest land by the Garrett brothers.