

an effort will be made to pay the students for such work as they may 

 do which can properly be charged against the management of the 

 tract. The nature of the experiment station work will be largely 

 along silvicultural lines in charge of a technical experiment station 

 man. The use to be made of the forest for demonstration purposes 

 will be designed to show what can be done in this State by intensive 

 forest management, and how this work should be carried out. This 

 question is discussed more fully elsewhere in this issue of the Annual. 



The securing of a forest of this type, large enough and all ready 

 for immediate operation, has been possible only because the Univer- 

 sity still has nearly 100,000 acres of its educational grant. It is safe 

 to say, therefore, that it is beyond the bounds of any possibilities that 

 any other forest school in the country will ever be able to control 

 and manage such a magnificent field laboratory. With the demon- 

 stration forest, the forest products laboratory, about seventy acres 

 for an arboretum and seventy more in woodlot management right on 

 the campus, the College of Forestry of the University of Washington 

 will have a physical equipment far superior to that of any other 

 school in the country. Prof. Kirkland, who as former supervisor of 

 the Snoqualmie National Forest, is thoroughly familiar with the 

 problems of forest management in this region, will have direct charge 

 of the management of the school forests. He will spend a great deal 

 of his time this summer and probably a part of the first semester of 

 next year in conducting the examinations required to make the ex- 

 change and the negotiations necessary to complete the University's 

 title to the tract. 



The Faculty. 



All of the old members of the faculty will be with us again next 

 year and present plans include the immediate addition of an instructor 

 in Milling and Marketing and a graduate assistant, the latter to re- 

 lieve Prof. Kirkland of some of his classes during the time he is look- 

 ing after the land exchange in connection with the demonstration 

 forest. As soon as operations begin on the demonstration forest, a 

 resident supervisor, who will have direct charge of the work there 

 and assist in instruction during the Short Course, should also be 

 appointed. 



Enrollment 



Our enrollment has increased from a total of seventy-six last year, 

 of whom fourteen were short course men, to eighty-five, of whom 

 thirteen were enrolled in the short course. A special feature worthy 

 of note is that every member of last year's Freshman class returned 



in September. 



Opportunities in Forestry. 



The depression in the lumber industry made the question of 

 steady employment for all of our graduates appear somewhat dubious 

 during the past year or two. With the recent improvement in busi- 

 ness conditions in general there has, however, been a demand for men 

 far in excess of our supply so that all the former graduates have been 



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