course in the University any suitable tracts of land 

 in the Park that may be assigned to them for this 

 purpose by the Forestry Board. A Forestry School 

 therefore began work as early as the summer of 1908 

 on the shore of Itasca Lake about a mile south of its 

 outlet and has spent a part of each summer there 

 since. The school, including its instructors, occupy 

 eight buildings. The Forestry Board at its meeting 

 May 27th, 1910 thanked the students for their work 

 in preventing forest fires. There are two other build- 

 ings in the vicinity in charge of, or occupied by the 

 Superintendent of the Park. 



Neither the Beech nor the Hemlock tree will be 

 seen in Itasca Park, but there will be found in abund- 

 ance the same variety of trees that characterize mixed 

 forests of the Northewestern states, the Alder, Ash, 

 Basswood, Box-elder, Birch, (White and Yellow), 

 Cedar, Cherry, Elm, Ironwood, Maple, (Sugar and 

 Red), Pine, (White, Norway and Jack), Oak and 

 Willow. 



There are in the Park quite a number of deer and 

 thirty-eight elk. For the latter there is a building with 

 hay rack as shelter for them in winter. 



A topographical party consisting of three topograph- 

 ers, three recorders and fourteen men sent by the 

 U. S. Mississippi River Commission in the summer 

 and fall of 1900 made a topographical and hydrograph- 

 ical survey of Itasca Park and of a section of the 

 river in its vicinity. Their report published in the 

 War Department documents 1901-1902 states among 

 other things: "On account of the roughness of the 

 country and the dense growth of underbrush the 



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