122 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



Professor of Sylviculture and Grazing ; and Harry I. Nettleton, gradu- 

 ate of Oregon School of Forestry, Professor of Lumbering. 



While recognizing the giving of forest instruction as the first 

 obligation of the School, it is realized that the best instruction is 

 possible only when the instructors are given time and opportunity to 

 carry on more or less research. With this fact in mind the forest 

 faculty keeps constantly under way a full program of investigations 

 calculated to assist in solving the forestry problems of the State. The 

 School maintains a forest nursery from which it supplies planting 

 stock at cost. It owns its own demonstration forest which it uses 

 for field laboratories, also large logging and milling operations are 

 near at hand. The largest white pine forest in the world lies almost 

 within view of the university. 



IOWA STATE COLLEGE 

 Department of Forestry 



Forestry instruction along the lines of farm forestry was given at 

 the Iowa State College before 1890. In 1903 additional forestry 

 courses were added, and by 1908 there were a sufficient number of 

 courses to prepare students for professional forestry work. In 1912 

 a full four-year course for the degree of Bachelor of Science in 

 Forestry was offered and a fifth-year course for those desiring to 

 specialize for the Master's degree in forestry has been added. 



The staff of the Department of Forestry consists of nine members, 

 headed by Professor G. B. MacDonald, and includes an extension 

 forester and two graduate assistants. There are now enrolled between 

 90 and 100 technical forestry students. In addition between 

 400 and 500 agricultural students receive instruction in farm 

 forestry every year. Through the extension service, forestry coopera- 

 tion has been extended to many counties, particular emphasis being 

 placed on reforestation, windbreak and shelterbelt planting and fence 

 post preservation. 



The members of the forestry staff assist in carrying on forestry 

 experimental work in connection with the State experiment station. 

 Investigations are carried on with respect to various phases of utiliza- 

 tion, management, marketing and other subjects. One line of experi- 

 mental work which has been of great importance to the Iowa farmers, 



