118 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



COLORADO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 

 Department of Forestry 



Forestry was first taught at Colorado Agricultural College in 

 1904 in an elementary course given by Professor B. O. Longyear. The 

 following year an experimental arboretum was started on the college 

 farm, and in 1906 and 1907 short ranger courses were given, believed 

 to be the first of their kind in the country. In 1908 the forestry and 

 botany departments were divorced from the horticultural department 

 and in 1909 forestry was offered for the first time in a four-year 

 course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry. 



The present Department of Forestry has stood by itself since 1914 

 and is divided into three divisions : the four-year college course, with 

 an enrolment of 45 students ; the three-year preparatory course of the 

 School of Agriculture with an enrolment of 14; the two-year course 

 for vocational men, with an enrolment of 15. During the summer 

 a course of eleven weeks in practical forestry is given at Pingree 

 Park, in the i6oo-acre college forest. This tract of timberland, 45 

 miles west of Fort Collins, the site of the College, was acquired 

 in 1915. 



Located in the vicinity of National Forests, the department affords 

 students opportunities to study the management of those areas. Trips 

 are taken to the Fremont Experiment Station at Manitou ; to the large 

 Forest Service Nursery in Monument ; to the tie-treating plant of the 

 Union Pacific Railway at Laramie, Wyoming. Summer employment 

 on the National Forests is frequently possible for students. Others 

 assist the State Forester, who is also head of the Department, in the 

 annual spring distribution of trees and in work on the State-owned 

 timber lands. 



The faculty of the Department devoting their time exclusively to 

 forestry are : W. J. Morrill, Professor of Forestry, State Forester and 

 head of the Department; B. O. Longyear, Associate Professor 

 of Forestry. 



COLORADO SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 



The Colorado School of Forestry of Colorado College at Colorado 

 Springs was established as a department of the college in 1905. Its 

 aim is to give students who intend to adopt forestry as a profession, 



