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1. An appropriation of $250,000 a year 

 for ten years for ttie purcliase of interven- 

 ing forest land in order to bring ttie pres- 

 ent reserve of 385,000 acres up to 2,000,000 

 acres. 



2. A county fire warden system for the 

 northernmost twenty counties of the state, 

 to be paid for out of a fund of about 

 $250,000 to be raised by special tax of two 

 cents per acre on all lands to be benefited 

 by the system. 



3. A public domain commission to take 

 the place of the present state board of 

 forestry and the fish and game warden 

 department; the state forester as super- 

 intendent of the public domain commission 

 to have charge of the bureau of forestry 

 and the bureau of fish and game; the com- 

 mission to be constituted as is the present 

 forestry board, namely, the president of 



the state university, director of the state 

 geological survey, dean of the agricultural 

 college of the state university, the attorney 

 general and one member at large, named 

 by the governor to serve without pay. 



The original recommendation of the for- 

 estry committee was that of a 2-10 mill 

 tax to be levied on all property in 

 Wisconsin in order to provide a fund of 

 $600,000 to take care of both the purchase 

 of additional forest reserve land and of 

 the proposed county fire warden system. 

 As arranged in the new bills the forest re- 

 serve appropriation is directly from the 

 general fund, but within a few years the 

 lands of the state forest reserve (it is 

 estimated) will be bringing into the treas- 

 ury of Wisconsin at least two million dol- 

 lars from the wood-using industries of 

 W isconsin. 



EDUCATION 



Colorado College 



The Colorado School of Forestry of Colo- 

 lado College has had a successful year, 

 with an enrollment of thirty-six students 

 in its undergraduate course. A two-year 

 course, leading to Degree of Master of 

 J"'orestry, open to persons who have already 

 received a Degree, is advertised in the re- 

 cent Announcement. 



The Ranger course which was given last 

 year in cooperation with the Forest Service, 

 until the decision of the attorney general 

 made its discontinuance necessary, will 

 probably be given in the fall by the faculty 

 of the School alone. 



The School has been in charge of Prof. 

 P. T. Coolidge, as Director. Mr. E. I. Terry, 

 a graduate of the Harvard School of For- 

 estry, who has had several years' experi- 

 ence in the Forest Service on the national 

 forests, was appointed as an Instructor in 

 Forestry in January. 



In accordance with a working plan pre- 

 pared by the Senior class last spring, con- 

 servative lumbering has been in active pro- 

 gress during the last year at Manitou 

 Park, the 10,000-acre tract of yellow pine 

 owned by the School. The results of these 

 operations are the removal of considerable 



over-mature timber and the creation of 

 available funds for the expense of instruc- 

 tion in the School. 



New Hampshire State College. 



J. H. Foster, Assistant Chief of State Co- 

 operation, United States Forest Service, 

 leaves the Service September 1 to take 

 charge of the new department of forestry 

 in New Hampshire State College, provided 

 for by the new forest legislation of this 

 year. Mr. Foster has had a wide experience 

 and is well known through the published 

 results of his studies of forest taxation in 

 New Hampshire and Louisiana. 



Biltmore Forest School. 



The Biltmore students studied practical 

 forestry in the Atlantic coast pineries, as 

 the guests of the John L. Roper Lumber 

 Company, from May 1 to 10. Then five 

 (lays were spent in Asheville and Biltmore, 

 after which the school went to Canton, 

 North Carolina, which will be the address 

 of the school until July 15. From that date 

 until August 7 it will be Cadillac, Michi- 

 gan, and from that until September 27, 

 Marshfield, Oregon. 



