The pack train returning from the hike. Field Day, 1910. 



of a large area of forest lands in 

 the Adirondack mountains where the 

 school controlled a very large tract 

 and spending the summer field season 

 of 1900 with the Bureau of Forestry 

 (as it had now become), traveling 

 all through the Cascade mountains 

 of Washington and Oregon. In this 

 work his services became so valuable 

 to the Bureau that in 1901 he left 

 Cornell and returned to an advanced 

 position in the Bureau. During the 

 summer of that year he surveyed 

 and determined boundaries of the 

 Priest River, Gallatin, Big Horn and 

 Black Hills Forest Reserves. The 

 forest reserves, or national forests 

 as they are now called, had now been 

 in process of establishment ever 

 since 1891, although they were then 

 administered under the Department 

 of the Interior instead of by the 

 Bureau of Forestry. Every year 

 new reserves were being created, and 

 it became imperatively necessary to 

 have at the head someone who had 

 a thorough knowledge of the forests 

 themselves. In November, 1901, 

 therefore, Professor Roth was selec- 

 ted for the position, and left the 

 Bureau to take charge of the nat- 

 ional forest lands. Here he re- 

 mained until 1903, when he resigned 

 and in the fall of that year, after 



spending the summer in the moun- 

 tains of California and Oregon, 

 again for the Bureau of Forestry, 

 returned to his alma mater, at her 

 urgent call, to organize a forestry 

 school. At the same time he was 

 also appointed "warden" of the 

 newly created state forest reserves 

 in Roscommon county, and served in 

 that capacity as officer in charge of 

 the reserves for the State Forestry 

 Commission, and a member of the 

 Commission, until 1908. 



At present. Prof. Roth is in Eu- 

 rope studying forest conditions there. 

 He will return in time for the next 

 school year. 



C. L. HILL. 



THE FIELD DAY. 



One of the most impressive proofs 

 yet given that forestry teaching is 

 not an impractical hobby was that 

 furnished Saturday, May 21. bv the 

 field day held at the U. of M. fores- 

 try farm, three miles west of Ann 

 Arbor, under the auspices of the For- 

 estry Club. It was not held with the 

 idea of refuting the sneers of those 

 who oppose the teaching of forestry, 

 but it was an effective argument, 

 nevertheless. Education by practi- 

 cal demonstration is the best of all 



