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has been notified that the Postmaster-General 

 has decided to order rural mail carriers to 

 keep watch for forest fires and when one 

 is seen to send word to the nearest fire 

 warden. 



This order is the outcome of a plan first 

 proposed by the State Fire warden and taken 

 up by him with the Post Office Department 

 through the United States Forest Service at 

 Washington, and is a further endorsement 

 of the effort the Forest Commission is mak- 

 ing to provide protection to the woodlands 

 of the State. 



Under the scheme, each rural mail cai'rier 



will be furnished from Trenton with a list 

 of the fire wardens in the territory through 

 which his route runs. Also every fire warden 

 will be notified of the arrangement and in- 

 structed to find out which carriers work 

 in or near his district and let them know 

 where he can be reached and how word may 

 be gotten to him in the easiest and quickest 

 way. 



The United States Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture has notified the Commission that the 

 fund allotted to New Jersey for forest fire 

 patrol in 1911, viz. $1,000, will be doubled 

 for 1912, making the amount $2,000. 



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The Biltmore Class 



Members of the Biltmore Forest School 

 class who recently returned from Europe 

 and spent a week in Washington, together 

 with the alumni of the school in the various 

 branches of the Forest Service, gave an in- 

 formal smoker on Wednesday, April 17, at 

 a Washington hotel. Besides the alumni 

 and members of the class a number of prom- 

 inent men were present. 



After a most profitable instructive and 

 interesting six months in Germany the class 

 of thirty-five under the tutelage of Dr. C. 

 A. Schenck returned at the end of March 

 and then spent two weeks at Tupper Lake 

 in the Adirondacks. From Washington they 

 went to Newburn, S. C, and from there they 

 go to Sunburst, near Asheville, and on to 

 Cadillac, Mich., where they will spend the 

 greater part of the summer. From there 

 they go to Oregon, later returning East by 

 way of Texas and Louisiana. 



New Head for Forest School 



Professor William Darrow Clark has been 

 selected to fill the vacancy, due to the resig- 

 nation of Dr. Hugh P. Baker, at "Penn 

 State" Forest School. Professor Clark is 

 especially qualified to succeed as head of this 

 important Forest School and we prophesy 

 a continuation of the success which the 

 school has achieved in the past. Professor 

 Clark is a graduate of the Yale Forest 

 School, Class of '09, and has served an ap- 

 prenticeship in the United States Forest 

 Service. In September of 1909 he accepted 

 an appointment as Assistant Professor of 

 Forestry in the "Penn State" Forest School, 

 where he has demonstrated his worth as 

 teacher and executive. Kind and generous, 

 yet with a keen sense of right and justice, 

 he is a favorite with faculty and students 

 alike, holding the respect and esteem of all. 



With the change in her curriculum, the 

 "Penn State" Forest School offers a four 

 year undergraduate course unsurpassed in 



the United States. Following the Sopho- 

 more year the students are given two months 

 of field work on a 20,000-acre tract of vir- 

 gin white pine in the western part of the 

 State. Here are taken up the subjects of 

 Mensuration, Surveying, Silviculture and 

 Systematic Botany. A large mill in the im- 

 mediate neighborhood offers opportunity for 

 studies in mill scale and similar work. Fol- 

 lowing the Junior year the students are given 

 an opportunity to spend a summer in the 

 Forest Service or in the Forestry Depart- 

 ment of one of the several States. In ad- 

 dition to this practical experience, the entire 

 second semester of the Senior year is spent 

 in the woods of the South and every facility 

 is offered for a broad and comprehensive 

 study of Lumbering and Management. This 

 makes a total of about ten months practical 

 vvork during the four-year course, sufficient 

 time for a perfect correlation of theory and 

 practice. 



There are more than one hundred and 

 fifty students enrolled in the forestry course 

 and the present graduating class numbers 

 thirty. Many of these men hope to enter 

 the Forest Service, but an equal number are 

 planning on private work in f orestrv ; as 

 timber estimators, woods agents, railroad 

 foresters, park superintendents, and city for- 

 esters. 



A New Ranger Course 



The Department of Forestry of Colorado 

 College (Colorado School of Forestry), an- 

 nounces that it will establish a one-year 

 ranger course next fall. The purpose of 

 this course is to give practical instruction 

 to rangers or to those interested in ranger 

 work. Such a course should ultimately im- 

 prove greatly the efficiency of the ranger 

 force on the National Forests. Engineering, 

 estimating, silviculture, mensuration, grazing, 

 and fire protection will be emphasized and 

 there will be instruction in other subjects 

 of practical usefulness in the Rocky Moun- 

 tain Region. The course will be conducted 



