FOREST SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES 



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Wisconsin making a study of logging, milling and manufacturing methods 

 of both the hard-woods and the soft-woods. Every year the deudrologv class 

 spends a short time at the arborteum of the late Honorable J. Sterling Morton 

 and in the forest growth along the Missouri River. 



In order to stimulate individual work in research, to give the student 



experience in publishing arti- 

 cles and furnish a ready means 

 of putting valuable little scien- 

 titic items on forestry into 

 jirint, the Forestry Club puts 

 out an annual publication of 

 about one hundred pages. The 

 author of each paper is afforded 

 the chance to supervise all of 

 the steps of proofreading and 

 corrections incident to the 

 printing of his article. 



The graduate work includes, 

 besides the forestry subjects 

 taught in the class-room, a 

 course in research on some for- 

 estry jiroblem and a thesis, also 

 on a forestry problem. A final 

 year's work in rhetoric is re- 

 quired in which the themes are 

 based on forestry subjects. 

 These courses give the candi- 

 date a chance to become well 

 acquainted with the literature 

 on forestry besides giving good 

 practice in writing. In addi- 

 tion to the required university 

 work the candidate must have 

 had at least one year's practical 

 field experience along foresti'y 

 lines. This experience may be 

 obtained by using the vacations 

 of four summers or by renuiin- 

 ing a solid year in the field. The 

 location of the University of Nebraska is such that this ruling is not a hardship 

 to the candidate, for, the Lake States, the Ozarks, the Colorado Rockies, the 

 ]?lack Hills are not far fr(ini Lincoln, and are about equally distant, while but 

 a short distance farther the Southern Pineries, the Southwest or the Idaho- 

 Montana region is reached. 



Provision is made in the graduate school for interchanging majors and 

 minors between forestry and several other departments, giving the graduate 

 student an opi)ortunity to specialize in many lines. For instance, he may 

 combine forestry with grazing, pathology, entomology, or engineering. 



IIG. 4. FOREST TREE SEEDLING HERBARIUM 



