FOREST SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES 



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College of Forestry, University of Minnesota 



By EDWAKD G. GHEYNEY, B. S. 



Professor of Fokestey 



^^:^HE forestry course of the 

 V J University of Minnesota 

 is organized as a college 

 of the agricultural depart- 

 ment, with its headquarters at 

 University Farm, St. Anthony 

 Park, St. Paul. This would 

 seem to indicate a wide sepa- 

 ration from the rest of the uni- 

 versity in Minneapolis, but the 

 difference is really only a mat- 

 ter of fifteen minutes and the 

 students of the two divisions 

 mingle more or less through- 

 out the four years of the 

 course. It is an integral part 

 of the university and the stu- 

 dents benefit by all the broad- 

 ening influences that such en- 

 vironment brings. 



The curriculum is a four- 

 year course including the 

 necessary basic sciences and 

 the technical forestry required 

 by the present conditions and 

 the future development of the 

 profession. The pure science 

 is grouped in the first two 

 years, so that any student who 

 finds that he has selected the 

 wrong course — as many are 

 likely to do when a subject is 

 popular, little known and 

 booming — may change without losing any credits. The whole course gives a 

 broad scientific training which makes a "good basis for any scientific work. 

 This is important for it can no more be expected that every student of forestry 

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MAP OF ITASCA STATE PARK 

 SUMMER HOME OF THE COLLEGE 



