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having definite research responsibilities, and partly of the opportunity 

 and duty of the schools to turn out graduates especially trained for 

 research, to recruit the personnel of the schools themselves and of 

 other established forest research agencies. Accordingly various 

 schools have adopted definite policies of research. At the University 

 of California, 3 for example, each member of the forest school staff is 

 required to devote half of each college year to research, and during 

 this period he is relieved of all teaching duties. Problems of the range, 

 forest mensuration, logging, milling, forest influences, and silviculture 

 have been the principal subjects of research. At the New York State 

 College of Forestry the faculty members have been allotted liberal 

 time for research, and especially significant work has been done in 

 wood technology, wood chemistry, wood utilization (particularly as 

 related to the problems of pulp and paper), forest entomology, and 

 forest pathology. The school maintains an institute of research in 

 wild life, the Roosevelt Wild Life Experiment Station. At a number 

 of other schools for example, Cornell, Idaho, Michigan, and Minne- 

 sota Universities, and Pennsylvania State College research is ex- 

 pected of all staff members. At Cornell, Idaho, Pennsylvania State, 

 and Purdue men are employed who give their full time to investigative 

 activities. At the Iowa and Michigan State Colleges and the univer- 

 sities of New Hampshire, Utah, Montana, and Washington one or 

 more instructors are devoting considerable time to research. Usually 

 the research is done within the confines of the State, and hence is 

 concerned to a considerable extent with problems important within 

 the individual States, or with local aspects of general problems. 

 Some of it, however, is on subjects broadly fundamental, the results 

 of which are of high regional or even national value. Thus while the 

 forest schools are a most effective research aid to the State forestry 

 departments in advancing the sound management and utilization of 

 the State forest resources, their efforts can be, and generally are, 

 effectively coordinated with the Federal forest research system through 

 the regional forest experiment stations and the Forest Products 

 Laboratory. 



FOREST RESEARCH BY STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



Forest research by the State agricultural experiment stations, 

 under the terms of the Hatch, Adams, and Purnell Acts, is interpreted 

 as relating only to agricultural aspects of forestry. Since farm woods 

 comprise about 25 percent of the entire forest area of the country 

 (from 30 to 50 percent in the Southern, Middle Atlantic, and Central 

 States) and since the value of products cut and sold from farm woods 

 ranks high among all farm products in a number of States, a large 

 field for forest research is presented for the agricultural experiment 

 stations, and for cooperation between these stations and the forest 

 schools, in the States having the latter. In the West the agricultural 

 experiment stations are conducting a very considerable amount of 

 research in the fields of range management, ecology, and economics 

 which coordinates with or is closely related to the forest-range investi- 

 gations of the Federal forest experiment stations. At least 26 States 

 are carrying on some work that has to do with forestry or with the 

 problems of range management. 



3 Cf. Forest Education, by Henry S. Graves and Cedric H. Guise. Yale University Press. 1932. P. 



