26 , Announcement of the 



WINTER CONFERENCE 



The frequent return to the University for reunion and confer- 

 ence, of many of the graduates who have been practicing their pro- 

 fession in different regions, has led to the development of a plan to 

 focus and make more generally available the extremely valuable ex- 

 perience possessed by the returning alumni. Under this plan, the 

 graduates working in the field are urged to arrange their affairs so 

 as to make their assembling at the University possible at a given 

 time during the winter. Those who are unable to attend are requested 

 to send in reports of new methods and results, papers dealing with 

 difficulties developed by current practice, and problems on which they 

 are working and in which it is possible that the experiences brought 

 out by the conference may prove of benefit. The problems and ques- 

 tions developed during the year or coming up during the conference, 

 which cannot be decided or answered at once, will be taken up by 

 the department for research. 



It is believed that this plan of holding conferences will prove of 

 great benefit to those in attendance, as well as serving to keep the 

 department in the closest touch with the extraordinary variety of 

 difficulties which necessarily develop in the practice of an old pro- 

 fession under new conditions. Such meetings should also assist ma- 

 terially in keeping the class-room work accurately focused on the field 

 requirements of the profession, in conformity with the policy of the 

 department. 



Men in the field are encouraged at all times to refer their prob- 

 lems and the results of their work to the department, which, keeping 

 as it does, in touch with its graduates, is often able to render valuable 

 service in acting as a clearing house for information concerning 

 current forest practice. 



QUALIFICATIONS OF THE FORESTER 



In training the forester needs all that it is possible for him to 

 secure. A good training will include a very thorough and compre- 

 hensive technical education together with a wide experience in forest 

 work, covering as great a range as possible. Half-prepared men are 

 of little use in forestry, especially in this beginning stage in America. 

 As to the prospective forester himself, he should be a man of good 

 physique, good disposition, frugal habits and absolute honesty. 



OPENING FOR FORESTERS 



Because forestry is in its infancy in America, it is not easy to 

 forecast its future. It is certain, however, that the number of fores- 

 ters employed in America has increased very rapidly and there is 

 today not a single competent forester in the United States who is not 

 employed in his profession. There seems no valid reason to antici- 

 pate that this condition will be materially changed for many years. 



