136 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



YALE UNIVERSITY 

 School of Forestry 



Established in 1900 through a gift of $150,000 by the family of 

 James W. Pinchot, the School of Forestry at Yale University, New 

 Haven, Connecticut, is the oldest forestry school in point of continu- 

 ous existence in the United States. It was the intention of its 

 founders to provide an institution for the training of professional 

 foresters and, at the same time, to make it the centre of activity in 

 scientific forestry and to train leaders in the forestry field. 



The school is founded as a school of applied science, requiring for 

 admission a baccalaureate degree or at least three years undergraduate 

 work covering certain prescribed studies. The degree of Master of 

 Forestry is conferred on candidates having completed two years of 

 technical studies and having fulfilled certain other prescribed con- 

 ditions. The degree may be conferred for completion of a two-year 

 professional course covering the entire field of forestry or for special- 

 ization in a given branch. In the latter case basic preparation 

 is required. 



The courses open to the candidates for degree cover the profes- 

 sion of forestry, surveying, dendrology, soils, sylviculture, forest 

 entomology, forest pathology, forest mensuration, forest management, 

 forest products, lumbering, forest economics, state forest policy, 

 federal forest policy, forest improvements, tropical forestry, principles 

 of accounting and business law, plant ecology, forestry abroad, forest 

 protection, wood preservation. 



At New Haven the School of Forestry is housed in Sage 

 Hall, a new building entirely given over to the school. It includes 

 the Forest Club rooms, technology laboratory, lecture rooms, library 

 of 22,000 volumes devoted to forestry, sylvicultural laboratory, draft- 

 ing room, forest products laboratory, herbarium, wood collection and 

 smaller laboratories. 



In the field the School of Forestry has equipment for instruction 

 and research at the summer session camp at Milford, Pennsylvania. 

 The School owns and has under its management 2800 acres in three 

 forest properties. In addition it carries on forestry practice on a 

 number of properties owned by corporations and individuals in vari- 

 ous parts of the country. At Keene, New Hampshire, in the best New 



