EDUCATION 



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Schweizerische zeitschrift fiir forstwesen, 

 Sept.-Oct. 1911. Die buche im Hinter- 

 rheintal, by H. Schwegler, p. 237-40; 

 Zusammenlegung von privatwaldun- 

 gen, by K. Ruedi, p. 240-7; Privatwald 

 und plenterbetrieb, by G. Z., p. 247- 

 55; Kritische beleuchtung des neuen 

 Riiping'schen schwellentrankungsver- 

 fahrens, by E. Laris, p. 255-9; Einige 

 bemerkungen iiber den anbau der 

 larche, p. 269-72. 



Tharander forstliches jahrbuch, 1911. 

 Die iiberwinterung und bekampfung 

 des eichenmehltaus, by P. W. Neger, 

 p. 1-9; Versteigerungserlose der haupt- 

 sachlichsten nadelholzsortimente in den 

 Konigl. sachs. staatsforsten wahrend 

 der drei jahrzehnte 1880 bis 1909, by 



Kassner, p. 10-6 <; Die reinertragsiiber- 

 sichten der kgl. sachs. staatsforsten 

 fiir das jahr 1909, by Vogel, p. 68-82.; 

 Die bedeutung der deutsclien kolonien 

 fiir die forstpolitik, den forstlichen 

 unterricht und das forstliche versuchs- 

 wesen, by Martin, p. 83-91; Forst- 

 politische aufgaben, by Fr. Jentsch, p. 

 92-100; tJber die beziehungen zwischen 

 dem natiirlichen und okonomischen 

 prinzip in der forstwirtschaft, by W. 

 Borgmann, p. 101-22; Die photogram- 

 metrie und ihre bedeutung fiir das 

 forstwesen, by R. Hugershoff, p. 123- 

 32; Kiinstliche nachzucht unserer 

 heimischen fichtenbestande auf billig- 

 stem wege, by Uhlich, p. 133-7. 



EDUCATION 



Ranger Course at Colorado School of Forestry 



Announcement is made by the Colorado 

 School of Forestry of a ten weeks' ranger 

 course to begin December 13, 1911. The 

 aim of the course is to give in a limited 

 time as much instruction as possible in 

 forestry and related subjects to those who 

 are interested or are actually engaged in 

 forest ranger work. Until January 1, the 

 course will consist of lectures at Colorado 

 Springs. After that date the instruction 

 will be transferred to the school's reserve 

 at Manitou Park, twenty-five miles west of 

 Colorado Springs. The lectures will be 

 given by the faculty of the school of for- 

 estry, by members of the faculty of Color- 

 ado College, of which the school is a de- 

 partment, and by the Forest Service. They 

 will comprise discussion of the funda- 

 mental principles of silviculture and for- 

 est administration, forest law, grazing 

 problems, construction of roads, trails, tele- 

 phone lines, cabins, etc., diseases of trees 

 and forest entomology, identification of the 

 more important woods and trees, and other 

 subjects of practical value to the ranger 

 or woodsman. The course includes also 

 lectures on general botany, geology, and 

 first aid to the injured. It provides in- 

 struction in mechanical drawing suitable 

 to the preparation of forest maps, mathe- 

 matics, and some other elementary sub- 

 jects. 



The field work at Manitou Park will be 

 conducted by the faculty of the School of 

 Forestry. It will consist of practice in 

 surveying, estimating, forest mapping and 

 description, preparation of volume and 

 growth tables, marking of trees for cutting, 

 study of lumbering at the school's mill, 

 instruction in packing, horseshoeing, etc. 



Information concerning the course may 



be obtained from Philip T. Coolidge, Di- 

 rector, Colorado School of Forestry, Colo- 

 rado Springs. 



The University of Missouri 



Instruction in the elementary principles, 

 history and economics of forestry, has 

 been given in the University of Missouri 

 for over five years. It was not, however, 

 until 1910 that a demand for a forest edu- 

 cation of a more professional nature was 

 believed to exist. In that year a depart- 

 ment of forestry was created in the College 

 of Agriculture. The work of instruction 

 actually began this fall with four juniors 

 and several sophomores and freshmen en- 

 rolled in the four years' course. 



i'he many forest schools that have been 

 established in recent years have been lo- 

 cated in the northern and western states, 

 with the exception of the department of 

 forestry in the University of Georgia. It 

 had been felt for some time that there 

 should be a Forest School established to 

 satisfy the demand of students from the 

 southern and southwestern states who seek 

 a training in the profession of forestry. 



The location of a forest school in the 

 state of Missouri is an ideal one. Situ- 

 ated on a plateau 600 feet above the sea 

 level and 30 miles from the Missouri River, 

 the university contains within its own cam- 

 pus natural examples of the southern hard- 

 wood forests along the bottomlands of the 

 creeks emptying into the Missouri River, 

 and in the higher lands on the plateau is 

 found the flora of the northern states. It 

 is the meeting ground of northern and 

 southern species. To the south lie the 

 Ozark Mountains where the university 

 owns over 50,000 acres of timbered land, 

 the woods laboratory of the forest school. 



