THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY 

 AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 



ON July 28, 1911, the act establish- 

 ing the New York State College 

 of Forestry at Syracuse Univer- 

 sity became a law through the signature 

 of Governor Dix. The objects and pur- 

 poses of the College as stated in its or- 

 ganic law are : 



1. The conduct upon land acquired 

 for such purposes of such experiments 

 in Forestry and Reforestation as the 

 Board of Trustees deem most advan- 

 tageous to the interests of the State and 

 the advancement of the Science of For- 

 estry. 



2. The planting, raising, cutting and 

 selling of trees and timber at such times, 

 of such species and quantities as the 

 Board of Trustees deems best, with a 

 view of obtaining and imparting knowl- 

 edge concerning the scientific manage- 

 ment and use of forests, their regulation 

 and administration, and the production, 

 harvesting and reproduction of wood 

 crops and the earning of a revenue 

 therefrom. 



The College is directly under the con- 

 trol of a Board of Trustees, partly 

 designated by the Act of Organization, 

 partly appointed by the Governor and 

 partly elected by the Trustees of Syra- 

 cuse University. 



New York was one of the first States 

 to realize the necessity of training young 

 men as foresters. In 1898 the State 

 Legislature established a State College 

 of Forestry at Cornell University and 

 gave to the College a tract of 30,000 

 acres in the Adirondacks to be used as 

 a demonstration forest. Owing to an 

 unfortunate combination of circum- 

 stances arising in the management of 

 the demonstration forest at Axton, the 

 College was closed in 1902 after four 

 very successful years under Dr. B. E. 

 Fernow, now Dean of the Faculty of 

 Forestry at Toronto University. In 

 view of the tremendous interest in every 

 phase of forestry in the State evidenced 

 by a constant demand from all classes 

 of people for more information as to 

 the reforestation of waste lands and the 



best methods of caring for what we still 

 have, the State College of Forestry was 

 re-established and located at Syracuse 

 University because of the easy accessi- 

 bilit\' from all ])arts of the State, near- 

 ness to the Adirondacks, and because 

 of splendid facilities ofifered students 

 in forestry for work in other colleges 

 of the university in engineering and the 

 natural sciences. 



Those who framed the organic law 

 of the College saw clearly that such an 

 institution should serve the State in 

 more than instructional work in for- 

 estry only and obligated the College to 

 carry on two definite and equally im- 

 portant lines of work : The carrying on 

 of such research and investigative work 

 in forestry as will aid in the solution 

 of the many problems which confront 

 the people and the State of New York 

 in the protection, care and extension of 

 that increasingly valuable asset of the 

 State — the forests of the Adirondacks 

 and the Catskills, and in the practical 

 reforestation of the millions of acres 

 of waste lands in the State which are 

 adapted to a forest crop only. Second, 

 the giving of instruction in forestry, 

 not only for students who may be at- 

 tending the professional courses in the 

 College or the practical ranger course, 

 but for anyone else in the State who 

 wishes to know more as to the care of 

 their trees, the planting of waste lands 

 so that such lands may become a profit 

 and not a loss; the cutting of timber so 

 that another crop may be obtained ; the 

 treatment of timl:)cr so as to prevent 

 decay, and general facts as to our trees 

 and forests and the animals and plants 

 which may help or injure them. 



A FORICST KXPKRrMKNT STATION 



To be able io carry on effectively 

 such research and investigative work as 

 will be of immediate help in the State, 

 the Legislature stated in its act that 

 $40,000 of the initial appropriation for 

 the College of Forestry should be used 



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