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Colorado Springs, is a step decidedly in the right direction. Fol- 

 lowing the first rangers' school, it is probable that there will be 

 an increasing demand for schools and academies where young 

 men of limited preliminary training and limited finances may get 

 enough to start them in the early grades of the work. The step 

 which Pennsylvania has taken in the establishment of an academy 

 for the training of men to manage the State reserve, is an ex- 

 cellent one. The rangers' schools or academy as so far organized 

 in this country, has been taken to the woods, though by so doing 

 they are largely limited to drilling in methods of practical work 

 which may be of the highest grade, but which cannot take the 

 place of thorough study and application of principles. It is 

 probable that our academies will not be provided with regularly 

 established and fully equipped departments of botany, geology, 

 soils, chemistry, mathematics, and civil engineering, without 

 which the requisite foundation work cannot be given. 



The undergraduate school of forestry has been in existence 

 for a little time in this country, but is only now taking an im- 

 portant place. The undergraduate schools, especially if located 

 in institutions where there are schools of engineering and agri- 

 culture and fully developed experiment stations, may be made an 

 exceedingly important factor in the preparation of young men 

 for forestry. The men are taken during their formative period 

 and are in the work for four years, giving such a hold on them 

 that they may be controlled and directed even after graduation, 

 which is the case with no other class of forestry students. 



A brief statement of the work which with our present devel- 

 opment should form a part of the curriculum of our undergrad- 

 uate schools may be of interest at this point. During the first year 

 it is an advantage to give the foundation work which is an ab- 

 solutely essential part of the training, and which students will 

 take with better grace during the first two years than later. The 

 subjects of advanced mathematics, botany, chemistry, plane sur- 

 veying, some modern language, rhetoric and English literature 

 and shop work may make up the first year. At the same time 

 very elementary phases of forestry may be touched upon in con- 

 nection with the plane surveying, botany and shop work, and the 

 forest school will find it to its advantage to meet the men early 

 in some of its own work. In the second year the preliminary 

 training should be continued and should also include such sub- 



