Opportimities and Facilities 



forestry, who acts as "Warden" to these reserves, over 50,000 

 young trees wer^ planted this spring (1904) on the denuded 

 "slash" lands, and a nursery has bten- established in which mil- 

 lions of young trees nr,e to be raised. The policy of the State as 

 developed so far is to do two principal things. 



To give protection to these lands against fire and other 

 injury and thus enable whatever young growth exists, to grow 

 into useful material. 



To improve the lands by actually restocking them with tree 

 growth, to re-establish a forest where fires have left a blackened 

 waste and have made a natural restocking impossible for a long 

 time to come. 



The wisdom of this action has commended itself strongly to 

 the people all over the state, and even in the districts where the 

 reserves are located, the state's policy is meeting with hearty 

 co-operation, so that the continuance of this policy appears 

 assured. 



In the training of men in the work of caring for our woods 

 and of improving the present conditions of our woods and wood- 

 lands, the general conditions of our country and the consequent 

 needs of the men will form the principal guide in shaping the 

 courses of study, as well as in their presentation. 



OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES 



By referring to the University Calendar for 1903-4 it will be 

 seen that facilities for pursuing the fundamental and accessory 

 studies of languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, 

 zoology, etc., are amply provided for. 



For field work the vicinity of Ann Arbor offers the best of 

 opportunities. Convenient rural street car systems take the stu- 

 dent, at very moderate cost, to a variety of hardwood and swamp 

 forests, where all conditions from the virgin woods to the slash 

 are met with, and where a study of the results of good and bad 

 work are well calculated to prepare the student for his future 

 task. In addition, a few hours' ride by steam car suffices to reach 

 the pineries of the Southern Peninsula, the home of the famous 

 Michigan pine, where cut-over lands, dotted here and there with 

 tracts of good pine, and occasionally by patches of second growth, 

 present the many conditions of the great problem of reforestation 

 and offer reliable hints for future management. 



To introduce the student into the actual business of caring 

 for such lands and their improvement, it is the intention to have 

 him partake of the real work of caring for the State and Univer- 

 sity lands, and thus begin, under proper supervision, to practice 

 what he has learned. 



In the forestry laboratory students receive instruction in 

 forest botany, timber physics, structure of woods, and certain 

 features of wood technology, as well as in forest measurement 



