Course in Forestry 



men, he needs to be a man of parts ; not merely a narrow-minded 

 heimit, but a man whom people like to meet, whom they can do 

 business with and who means something to his neighbors and his 

 community. 



Then, again, the forester must love the forest, he must find 

 pleasure and contentment in his great laboratory, the forest. The 

 lawyer, the merchant, the blacksmith, all may live on the same street, 

 but the forester lives and works by himself. To love his forest, his 

 work, the life he leads, he needs to see all there is to see in his forest, 

 to be on speaking terms with the world of living things about him, 

 to know enough of the bird-world, the plant-world, and the many 

 interesting features of geology and mineralogy to find interest and 

 to hold his interest throughout life. 



The forester who has to go to town to find his pleasure and 

 recreation will, most likely, stay in town and soon cease to be a 

 forester. 



For these reasons the course in forestry at Michigan tries to 

 bring the student in touch with at least all of the important lines 

 of study upon which the success in the work as well as the satis- 

 faction of the life of a forester depends. That all these courses are 

 given by specialists in their line, is the great advantage of studying at 

 a large University, like Michigan. 



FACILITIES FOR INSTRUCTION 



By referring to the University Calendar it will be seen that facil- 

 ities for pursuing the fundamental and accessory studies of language, 

 mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, geology, mineral- 

 ogy, engineering, law, etc., are amply provided. 



For field work in forestry the vicinity of Ann Arbor offers ex- 

 cellent opportunities. Large numbers of woodlots and small forests 

 surround the town. At very moderate cost rural street car systems 

 take the student to a variety of hardwood and swamp forests in 

 which all conditions from virgin woods to "slash" may be studied. 

 Detailed results of good and bad forest work may be observed on 

 every hand. The great pineries of the Southern Peninsula are reached 

 by railway from Ann Arbor within a few hours. The student can 

 cheaply and quickly reach vast areas of cut and burned over lands, 

 stands of pine, hardwoods, tamarack and cedar, or logging camps, 

 saw mills, woodworking plants and paper mills. 



The owners of many timber properties and woodworking plants 

 throughout the state offer special opportunities for the accommo- 

 dation of students of the Forestry department while they are securing 

 first hand information as to the methods of conducting timber work. 



Special facilities for the study of forestry are supplied by the 

 Saginaw Forest Farm, a tract of land about two miles west of the 

 city of Ann Arbor, presented to the University by Hon. Arthur Hill, 

 of Saginaw. The farm comprises eighty acres and is a typical ex- 

 ample of the low, hilly land of the drift district. Its soils vary from 



