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Of intrinsic importance in every country is an investigation 

 defining, and causing to be demarkated, what forest is pro- 

 tection forest, and what land is absolute forest land. Necessarily, 

 the quality of soil and the protective character which a forest 

 exhibits must determine the kind and the severity of the measures 

 in public forestry which an intelligent commonweal should 

 enact into law. 



C. Forestry schools in the United States: 



The tendency in the United States as well as in Germany with 

 reference to forest schools is a tendency of decentralization. 

 This is unfortunate. Small schools can not develop specialists 

 in forestry ; and specialists are badly required for the advance- 

 ment of forestry. 



The forestry schools in the United States are (see American 

 Forestry, December 1910): 



three graduate schools (Yale, Ann Arbor, Flarvard) ; 



two university colleges (University of Minnesota and of Wash- 

 ington) ; 



thirteen undergraduate schools (Colorado College, Colorado 

 Agricultural College, University of Georgia, University of Idaho, 

 Purdue University, Iowa State College, University of Maine, 

 Michigan Agricultural College, University of Montana, University 

 of Nebraska, Oregon Agricultural College, Pennsylvania State 

 College, State College of Washington) ; 



two technical schools (Biltmore, N. C, Forest School, Mont 

 Alto, Pa., State Forest Academy) ; 



As the hospital is required for practical study in medicine, and 

 as the chemical laboratory is required for practical study in che- 

 mistry, so is the forest required, by teachers as well as by stu- 

 dents, in connection with a forest school, for practical study 

 in the woods. The "working fields" for the student of American 

 forestry should be sought in various parts of our huge country, 

 so as to prevent the teacher and the student from becoming 

 one-sided. 



The future will have to show whether or not a forestry school 

 attached to an existing institute of learning is superior to the 

 technical school of forestry. 



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