48 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



FORESTRY AND THE SUMMER CAMP 



With the summer camp taking an increasingly important position 

 as an adjunct to our educational system, and with more than 100,000 

 boys and girls spending most of the summer in the out-of-doors, 

 practical forestry is becoming an activity in camps for young people. 

 The aroused interest of the country in the forest problem has made 

 this phase of camp work both a popular and profitable endeavor, and 

 has enlisted the cooperation of public officials and supporters of the 

 forestry movement. 



Camp Mishike at Winchester, Wisconsin, run by Dr. Hugh P. 

 Baker, Warren B. Bullock and W. H. Sanderson, appears to have 

 the distinction of performing the first real activity as a non-profes- 

 sional forestry summer camp. The theory on which the sponsors 

 of this camp are proceeding is thus stated: 



" Teaching the youngsters that Nature is neither a tool to be used 

 nor an enemy to be conquered, but rather a friend to be cultivated 

 is the major objective in this first forestry camp for boys. Not to 

 make foresters of the boys but to inspire in them an appreciation of 

 the Out-of-Doors is the keynote of every camp activity." 



The staff of the camp is made up of trained foresters, who know 

 how to take care of themselves in the woods and teach their young 

 charges the same reliance. Camp Mishike is a part of a forest 

 property of 1700 acres. Twelve thousand trees were set out in the 

 camp nursery in the spring of 1923, and the goal is to restore on the 

 camp's acreage the forest growth that once made that north country a 

 woodland paradise. Reforestation has been started, necessarily being 

 done before the camping season opens, but permitting the boys to 

 learn the fundamentals of forestry in thinning out less valuable trees 

 and aiding nature. 



Mr. A. S. Gregg Clarke has launched a forestry program at his 

 camp on Lake Dunmore in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Boys 

 in the Senior Wigwam at this one of his Keewaydin Camps " major 

 in forestry." Situated on noo acres of forest land, near the prop- 

 erties of a large lumber company and staffed with trained foresters, 

 the Wigwam follows a program of tree identification, study of tree 

 infections, forest cover, erosion and flood prevention, natural and 

 artificial reforestation, weeding and thinning, lumbering, protection 



