Course in Forestry 



FREDERICK CHARLES NEWCOMBE, PH.D., Professor of 

 Botany, in Charge of the Botanical Laboratory. 



WILLIAM HERBERT HOBBS, PH.D., Professor of Geology. 



JOHN ROBINS ALLEN, M.E., Professor of Mechanical Engi- 

 neering. 



EDWARD HENRY KRAUS, PH.D., Junior Professor of Min- 

 eralcgy and Petrography, and Secretary of the Summer 

 Sessic n. 



AIMS 



In establishing a Course in Forestry in the University of 

 Michigan, in June, 1901, the principal aims of the University 

 were as follows : 



To train young men for the forestry profession. 

 To promote forestry in the State of Michigan. 

 To assist in the proper care of State Forest Lands. 

 To care for University Forest Reserves. 



To promote forestry, or the right use and improvement of 

 our forests and woodlands, the University is expected to co- 

 operate with the State Forest Commission in bringing the im- 

 portant subject of forestry before the people of our state through 

 publication and addresses, and also to assist owners of wood- 

 lands with advice and with personal direction on the ground. 



At the present time, the State of Michigan has over six 

 million acres of land which have reverted for non-payment of 

 taxes. A small portion of these lands has already been set 

 apart as forest reserves, and the friends of forestry are urging 

 the immediate increase of these reserves and the establishment 

 of a permanent State forest. Though but six years in operation 

 the work of the forest reserves is well under way. The profes- 

 sor of forestry acts as "Warden" to these reserves, and under 

 his direction two forest rangers watch over the interests of the 

 State. The policy of the State regarding these reserves, as thus 

 far developed, is to do two principal things : 

 To give protection against fire and other injury, and thus 

 enable whatever young growth exists to grow into useful 

 material. 



To improve the lands by restocking them with trees, thus re- 

 establishing forests where fires have left blackened wastes. 

 Several hundred thousand young trees are planted each year on 

 the denuded "slash" lands, and a nursery has been established 

 in which over two millions of young trees are growing. 



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 seems assured. 



