Course in Forestry 



features of wood technology, as well as in forest measurement 

 arid methods of study of the growth of timber. A good collection 

 of wood specimens, sections of trees, and herbarium material is 

 provided. There is an ample supply of microscopes, compasses, 

 calipers, height measures, and other apparatus for use in the 

 laboratory and in the field. 



The forestry library contains over 600 bound volumes, in- 

 cluding practically all of the well recognized authorities in for- 

 estry. This library is steadily growing, a department fund for 

 its increase having been allowed. Eleven forestry journals, be- 

 sides a number of technical papers representing different phases 

 of timber exploitation, are regularly received. 



A representative collection of photographs and lantern 

 slides furnishes the necessary illustrations in all courses. 



Through the kindness of various manufacturers, an ample 

 set of woodsman's tools is included in the equipment. 



The Michigan Forest Reserve, where the summer field course 

 is to be given, comprises about 40,000 acres of forest and cut- 

 over lands in Roscommon and Crawford counties, about 140 

 miles north of Ann Arbor. It contains a great variety of forest 

 conditions, extensive plantations, a large nursery and full equip- 

 ment for work. 



The absence of any well regulated forests, similar to those 

 of many European countries, might be regarded as a serious 

 drawback in the educational facilities, since such forests represent 

 the goal to be attained. However, in the United States the 

 student prepares himself for a task quite different from that of 

 managing a forest as a superior officer, with the woods, the 

 market, the forest officers and laborers all completely and per- 

 manently organized and prepared. His duty will largely be that 

 of caring for cut and burned-over lands, and the improvement of 

 badly mismanaged forests, where everything is new, everything 

 yet to be done, the forest to be made, the help to be organized 

 and trained, the market to be sought and improved, and the peo- 

 ple of the district to be convinced of the usefulness of the 

 forest and the necessity of its proper protection. For these rea- 

 sons it is believed that field work under the very conditions 

 which the American forester has to face in actual practice, will 

 prove fully as instructive as work under settled conditions, and 

 perhaps even more useful. 



THE COURSE IN FORESTRY 



The course in forestry is a graduate course, leading to the 

 degree of Master of Science in Forestry. It requires either five 

 or six years of college work, as explained below. 



