A NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN FORESTRY 723 



Forest. 9 Lumbering 3 



Forest. 13 Law 3 



Forest. 17 Forest Economics and History 2 



Forest. 22 Forest Engineering 2 



Second Semester — In Camp in the South or West 

 Forest. 16 Lumbering 

 Forest. 18 Management 



Forest. 23 Forest Report Writing and Abstracting 

 Forest. National Forest Practice 

 Forest. Range and Grazing Problems 



The number of hours refer to the number of recitations per week. One 

 recitation period being equal to two of practicum. 



Eight weeks of the Sophomore summer is spent iu field work on some 

 large forest holding in northern or western Pennsylvania. For the past three 

 years this summer work has been given on the Fox Estate at Foxburg, and 

 on lands of the John E. Dubois Lumber Company at Hicks Run. The accom- 

 panying pictures show something of the conditions on the last mentioned 

 tract. In connection with this Summer Camp there will be offered for the first 

 time in the summer of 1912 a Forest Camp of six weeks for prospective 

 students, timber and woodlot owners, and any one else interested in Forestry. 

 The work for men coming into this camp will be along the lines of Forest 

 Mensuration, Silviculture, Geology and Soils, and Descriptive Botany. 



The number of students iu the course in Forestry has increased from 5 in 

 1907 to something over 180 in 1911. The present Freshman Class numbers 

 about seventy men, over half of whom come from outside of the state. 

 Located as the School is, in the mountains of central Pennsylvania and within 

 a short walk of one of the largest state I'eservations, there are undoubtedly 

 as good facilities for practical study and work as are found elsewhere in this 

 country. Rather unusual soil conditions exist at and near the College, giving 

 interesting differences in plant and forest growth, all of which add greatly to 

 facilities for study. The College lies in a broad limestone valley covered with 

 a hardwood and coniferous growth in which Chestnut is entirely absent. Over 

 the granitic hills two miles to the south there is a mountain forest in which 

 Chestnut, Rock Oak, Red Maple, several P>irches, Hemlock, and three Pines 

 predominate. Just to the north of the College is an extensive area known 

 as the Sand Barrens, where the Pitch-Pine is found in abundance mixed with 

 Chestnut and numerous other hardwoods. 



The teaching staff of the Department has been Increased to four this 

 year and is now made uj) of two graduates of the Yale Forest School, one 

 from the Harvard Forest School and one from the University of Minnesota. 



