MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



uraclicable, and the commission shall determine 

 l he time when such offering shall be held, and 

 shall direct the manner in which such offering 

 shall he made. Within ten days after a public 

 offering of lands in any county, the commission 

 shall cause to be furnished to the county treas- 

 urer of said county a list of all unsold lands in 

 the county together with the appraised price- 

 thereof. They shall also cause the commissioner 

 of the state land office to make a report to the 

 county treasurer of said county on the first Mon- 

 day of every month, of all descriptions of land 

 sold during the preceding month. This list 

 showing- all unsold state lax homestead lands and 

 the appraised value thereof, together with the 

 reports of the commissioner of the state land 

 office, showing the descriptions of land sold dur- 

 ing the preceding month, shall be public records 

 and kept in some convenient place in said county 

 treasurer's office, so that the public may have- 

 free access to them. The said commission shall 

 also furnish to the county treasurer for public 

 use blank applications for the purchase of tax 

 homestead lands, and also uniform blanks used 

 for making applications for homestead entry. 



Sec. 10. Said commission shall have the 

 power to sell all dead and down timber upon 

 said lands, and to take such action as may be 

 deemed necessary to prevent the starting and 

 spreading of forest fires. 



Sec. 11. For the purpose of providing the 

 funds for carrying into effect the provisions of 

 this act, there shall be appropriated the amount 

 that may have been heretofore, or may be here- 

 after appropriated for the Michigan Forestry 

 Commission. 



Sec. 12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent 

 with the provisions of this act are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



A SCHOOL OF THE WOODS. 



Thomas B. Wyman, formerly in the employ of 

 the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company's land de- 

 partment, and who is now working for the 

 company at Mimising,-has established at Munis- 

 ing "Wyman's School of the Woods." It is his 

 purpose to give lectures on various branches of 

 forestry, with practical instructions and demon- 

 strations. Over seventy-five different subjects 

 will be treated, including methods of preventing 

 fires, damage to timber by floods, frost, snow, 

 wind, birds, insects, animals, etc., principles of 

 land surveying, subdividing and methods of mark- 

 ing corners and quarter posts, correction lines, 

 the proper use of the compass, grade instructions, 

 and others. The instruction will be in one com- 

 plete course, and will include a full year's work, 

 A three months' summer school will also be 

 conducted. The course opened July 1 and closes 

 on the same date the following year. The sec- 

 ondary, or summer course, will be from July 1 

 to October 1, and is meant to fill out the sum- 

 mer vacations of public high schools. 



Discussing the science of Forestry, Mr. Wy- 

 man says : "The science of forestry has, within 

 the past few years, become one of the most per- 

 tinent studies of the day and the problem of 

 training young men for the profession is receiv- 

 ing well merited attention in all parts of the 

 country. A proper ground work is as important 

 in forestry as it is in the languages or in the 

 other sciences. Students entering literary and 

 scientific colleges have been trained for years, 

 through the grades and the high schools or the 

 preparatory schools, with the aim of thorough 

 preparation for college. It is none the less im- 

 portant that the student of forestry should gain 

 a sound basic knowledge of the principles in- 

 volved in his chosen profession and, since for- 

 estry is not yet taught to any extent in the 

 grades, high schools or preparatory schools, the 



Reclaiming a Sand Dume. 



need of special schools for that purpose becomes 

 apparent 



"Forestry is a science which is not all contained 

 in books. It is, on the other hand, all in the 

 forest. To make a study of forestry a forest is 

 necessary. The more extensive the forest ancT 

 the greater the variation of forest types and con- 

 ditions the greater chance is there to obtain a 

 broad knowledge of the subject. Forestry, also, 

 is largely a matter of the economic use of for- 

 ests in other words, of forest operations. To 

 thoroughly understand utilization, life in close 

 touch with lumbering operations is a necessity. 

 The combination of practical woodcraft and the- 

 oretical forestry is, of course, the desired com- 

 bination and the aim pf all earnest students of 

 the subject. Opportunities to obtain the desired 

 training in theoretical forestry are not lacking. 

 There are several excellent colleges in the East, 

 South, and West and in Canada graduating stu- 

 dents who are eagerly sought for positions of 

 responsibility. 



"It is to furnish the practical woods experi- 

 ence and training to young men who plan to 

 take up the study of forestry at a technical school 

 or who desire to apply their theoretical knowl- 

 edge to practical forest conditions that Wyman's 

 School of the Woods has been established. The 

 school will offer practical woods work of every 

 description, including enough theory to familiar- 

 ize each student with the requirements of the 

 various forest subjects. The use of the entire 

 forest domain of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Com- 

 pany, consisting of several hundred thousand 

 acres of forest and wild lands of all types, to- 

 gether with as much additional area of various 

 ownerships, has been granted the school for 

 demonstration purposes. Extensive woods oper- 

 ations are carried on yearly, during their proper 

 seasons and .are directly available. 



"The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company was the 

 first private concern in Michigan to undertake 

 the management of its forest lands according to 

 the principles of applied forestry. It has also 

 established plantations of various species on its 

 cut-over lands. These plantations and the nur- 

 series which furnish the seedlings will be avail- 



able for inspection and students will be given 

 practical nursery work and planting under all 

 conditions." 



PUBLIC DOMAIN COMMISSION OR- 

 GANIZED. 



The new public domain commission created by 

 an act passed by the last legislature has organ- 

 ized to do business and to prepare to handle the 

 forestry reserve lands and other public domains 

 of the stale of .Michigan. That the important 

 responsibilities placed on this new body create 

 no small task is shown by the fact that fully 

 one million acres of land will be under its con- 

 trol, together with some thousands of acres of 

 forest reserves belonging to the Michigan Ag- 

 ricultural College, which will also be placed in 

 the care of the new commission. 



A. J. Doherty of Clare was elected chairman, 

 and A. ('. Carton, state deputy land commissioner, 

 was made secretary. Chairman Doherty says it 

 is to be the policy of the body to do all that it 

 can for the interests of the state. 



A committee consisting of Secretary of State 

 F. C. Martindale, State Regent Julius E. Beal 

 and Secretary A. C. Carton, was appointed to 

 visit all forestry reserves, take an inventory of 

 the state property. The commission consists 

 of Secretary of State Martindale, Auditor Gen- 

 eral Fuller, Land Commissioner Russell, Regent 

 Julius E. Beal. of the University of Michigan ; 

 Hon. A. J. Doherty, member of the state board 

 of agriculture, and Hon. William Kelly, member 

 of the board of control of the Michigan College 

 of Mines. 



Prof. Filbert Roth, as forest warden of the 

 state, has turned over his affairs to the newly 

 created commission of public domain, which is 

 to take upon itself all the functions and authority 

 of the forestry commission whic hhas existed 

 since 1900. Friends of forestry at the University 

 of Michigan expect that the new commission will 

 see fit to retain all of the forest lands which 

 the state now owns, and that in this way, at 

 least a half million of acres of state forest 

 shall exist in time and be definitely set aside by 

 the time the next legislature convenes. 



