INSTRUCTION IN RANGE MANAGEMENT 543 



NUMBER OF GRAZING SCHOOLS AND THEIR ORGANIZATION 



While at present the possibiHties of the apphcation of range manage- 

 ment are very great everywhere in this country and the subject is 

 quite popular, it is the writer's belief that it would be a grave mistake 

 at this time to initiate grazing courses in all of the forest schools or in 

 a large number of our leading universities. There are two chief rea- 

 sons for this belief : First, the fact that there is not yet available text- 

 books which adequately cover the subject, and hence the necessity of 

 creating high-salaried positions to be filled by highly specialized men, 

 and, second, the fact that the need for specially trained men will be 

 overlooked by some of the smaller schools, the result being that many 

 a so-called range technician will be graduated who will not be properly 

 trained in the fundamentals and who, therefore, may be only moder- 

 ately successful in his work. As the initial step, it would be well to 

 establish a chair in grazing in four or five of our leading schools — two, 

 possibly, in the East, one in the Middle West, and two in the Far West. 



Since the professional forester as well as the range technician is 

 more or less intimately associated with the management both of the 

 timber and the forage resources, and hence should have training both 

 in forestry and in grazing, it seems logical, in the beginning at least, 

 that the study of range managemest should be handled as a branch of 

 the forest school. To be sure, the grazing work could be co-ordinated 

 with the Department of Botany, or, indeed, with Agronomy; but the 

 much-desired co-operation with the school of forestry would probably 

 be most fully enjoyed if the work were handled there. 



COURSES NECESvSARY TO THE TECHNICAE FORESTER AND RANGE 



TECHNICIAN 



While all of the subjects here suggested bear more or less directly on 

 the administration of all Forests and other timbered lands where live 

 stock is handled, some are particularly pertinent to the training of what 

 is usually termed the "professional" forester. Probably the most im- 

 portant are those grouped under the following: III — Management of 

 the Range ; IV — IManagement of Range Live Stock, and VI — Grazing 

 and Forest Protection. Some training in II — The Important Native 

 Range and Pasture Plants, and in V — Range Reconnaissance and Graz- 

 ing Working Plans — is also important. Some understanding of these 

 subjects, however, would be had where the field training in timber 

 reconnaissance is co-ordinated with that of grazing reconnaissance, as 

 would no doubt prove expedient. 



