AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



r THE Forestry Division has entertained 

 several interesting visiting foresters 

 during recent weeks. Mr. A. Helms, of the 

 New South Wales, Australia Forest Serv- 

 ice, is in this country in search of a satis- 

 factory conifer for planting in Australia 

 where softwoods are very scarce and ex- 

 pensive. He plans to experiment with 

 western yellow pine, Douglas fir and possi- 

 bly one or two of the southern pines, and 

 emphasizes the need for care in getting 

 seed from a locality whose climatic char- 

 acteristics are as nearly like those of the 

 proposed planting area as possible. Pro- 

 or P. Leslie, head of the forest school 

 at Aberdeen University, Scotland, stopped. 

 He came here through Canada and down 

 the Coast, stopping at Seattle and Port- 

 land and talked entertainingly of his trip 

 and impressions. Two distinguished Jap- 

 anese foresters have also visited in Berke- 

 ley- recentlv. Dr. Hisachi Mochizuki, For- 



est Expert of the Bureau of Forestry, Jap- 

 an, is making a study of American lumber 

 and forest products, while Dr. Ichiro Son- 

 obe, who teaches forest adminstration and 

 economics at Tokyo Imperial University is 

 making a six months' trip in the United 

 States to study logging conditions and 

 important Pacific Coast timber species such 

 as redwood, sugar and western yellow 

 pines, and Douglas fir. He said that their 

 forest school owns and administers school 

 forests to the extent of 160,030 hectares, 

 requiring an administrative force of eighty 

 supervisors and rangers and producing an 

 annual gross revenue of about $150,000. 

 Some of our American Forest School for- 

 ests seem pretty small in comparison. He 

 stated that white pine, northern white ce- 

 dar and Douglas fir make the best growth 

 of any American timber species under 

 Japanese conditions. 



Professor Donald Bruce attended the 

 Pacific Logging Congress meetings in Spo- 



kane the first week in December, as did 

 Professor D. T. Mason, who is to resume 

 his duties at Berkeley in January, after 

 an absence in Washington of nearly two 

 years. 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 

 FOREST RANGER COURSE 



THE Ranger Course in Forestry offered 

 by the School of Forestry of the Uni- 

 versity of Idaho opened for the first term 

 of the 1920-1921 season on November 1 

 with a registration twenty-five per cent 

 larger than the previous record. The popu- 

 larity of this course is indicated by the 

 fact that students were drawn from many 

 of the far eastern and lake states as well 

 as from the .west, there being representa- 

 tives from New York, New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania, Illinois, Minnesota and California, 

 as well as Idaho. 



The practical work of this course is well 

 under way, as in addition to the lecture and 



The Whole Country Is Now Voting For A National Tree 



in the American Forestry Association's campaign of education. Every school is taking this 

 up. Will you help the cause of Forestry by putting the magazine in one or more schools in 

 your town? The teachers and the pupils need the magazine. Will you put it in their hands? 



REMEMBER YOUR OLD SCHOOL 



Your old school or one near you will 

 thank you for this. 



FILL OUT THIS BLANK AND FORWARD WITH CHEtK TO 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 

 1214 Sixteenth Street N. W. - Washington, D. C. 



Hereivith my check ($4.00) for which send American Forestry 

 TO MY OLD SCHOOL 



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City State 



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Note: We will select the schools or school or you can name them. We will print a list of school 

 benefactors from month to month and inform the school selected that you are sending the magazine to it. 



Some of Those Who Have Contributed the American Forestry Magazine To Schools 



William H. Smedley, James Richard Carter, Mrs. J. W. Magnifier, F. L. Kennedy, Marion G. Seeger, L. Seltonstell, 

 Mrs. Ezra Thayer, Samuel C. Blood, Mrs. L. V. Baughman, Mrs T. B. Blackstone, J. L. Ohristy, Mrs. Lyman B. Goff, 

 W. W. Laird, Mrs. Anna B. Phelps, Charles E. Bryant, Miss Emma Marburg, Arthur S. Johnson, John C. Phillips, 



Caroline A. Fox, J. Vv'ilmer Brewer. 



THESE PEOPLE HAVE DONE SOMETHING OF REAL EDUCATIONAL BENEFIT. 



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