There are Thousands of Camping Sites Like This in the North 



What the Students Gain. 



The relations between .the park and the college of forestry 

 are reciprocal. Each gains from the other. The state park 

 gains through the various kinds of protection afforded it. How 

 does the student gain? 



Could a better laboratory be found? Isn't actual experience 

 the thing that counts? The student who goes to Itasca Park 

 sees the whole life of a tree. He can study it in the seed form. 

 He sees the small tree, the mature tree, the finished product 

 as it comes from the mill. The experience he gains in every 

 kind of forestry work is invaluable to him. He -only knows 

 how to fight a forest fire who has had the experience. 



The students who go to the park have a "bunk" house and 

 a "cook" shack. They form a corporation and elect a man- 

 ager and a treasurer. They then hire a cook for the summer. 

 By this means, the cost of living is cut down to the minimum. 



State officials who have seen the work of the college of for- 

 estry in the park have come away convinced that the state is 

 the gainer. Those who bad the opportunity of studying and 

 working there are convinced that they are the gainers. 



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