130 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



In fulfilling these requirements the scope of instruction and 

 activity covers a wide field. Lectures and field instruction in the 

 historical and economic aspects of forestry are available to all 

 students at the University. More extended instruction along these 

 lines is given those who desire preparation for forestry teaching in 

 the public schools. Through a four-year course leading to the degree 

 of Bachelor of Science, or a five-year course for the degree of Master 

 of Forestry, professional foresters are trained for state or national 

 service or for work as forest experts in private enterprise. Oppor- 

 tunity for specialization is offered in city forestry, forest recreation, 

 lumbering, paper and pulp-making, forest management, dendrological 

 chemistry, forest entomology, forest pathology, forest zoology and 

 such special work. 



The College provides lectures throughout the State for any organ- 

 ization interested in the conservation of natural resources, informs 

 the public through bulletins and gives expert advice to owners of 

 forest lands. Special service is provided producers and consumers 

 of forest products through special market investigations and studies 

 of utilization. A Ranger School is operated on the College Forest at 

 Wanakena, New York, training men as guards, rangers, forest estate 

 managers, tree planting experts and nursery foremen. 



Experimental work is carried on at the State Forest Experiment 

 Station. Similar work is given in the Charles Lathrop Pack Demon- 

 stration Forest of 1000 acres on the shores of Cranberry Lake, on the 

 1600 acres of Adirondack land of the Ranger School and on the 1850 

 acres of cut-over land given the University by the Rich Lumber 

 Company. The forest area given to the University by Mr. Pack is 

 the home of the Sophomore Summer Camp of the College. The 

 University has also acquired two other tracts of cut-over land for 

 practical experimental work. At the State Experiment Station instruc- 

 tional work in forest nursery practice and sylviculture are carried on, 

 and a woodlot of thirty acres is used for demonstration work in 

 marking trees for thinning and for underplanting. 



The College is equipped with a laboratory for all phases of forestry 

 work. It maintains a Forest Library containing literature bearing in 

 any way on forestry. A sawmill, pulp and paper plant and dry kiln 

 are a part of the college plant. 



The enrolment at the College is about 250 students in the fall 

 and 200 at the second semester. 



