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School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Yar Course, with oppor- 

 tunity to specialize in General 

 Forestry, Logging Engineer- 

 ing and Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course, of high 



school grade, covering one 

 year of eight months. 



Special Short Course, covering 

 twelve weeks designed for 

 those who cannot take the time 

 for the fuller courses. 



No tuition is charged for any 

 of the above courses, and other- 

 wise expenses are the lowest. 



Correspondence Course. A 

 course in Lumber and Its 

 Uses is given by correspon- 

 dence for which a nominal 

 charge is made. 



For Purihtr Particulars Addnst 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



FORESTRY TRAINING 



In the Heart of the Rockies 



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The Colorado School of Forestry 



A Department of Colorado 



College 

 Colorado Springs, Colorado 



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Four and fiTC-year oDdergradtiate conriet 

 and a two-T^ar graduate course in techni- 

 cal foreitrj, leading to the degTces of 

 Bachelor ot Science in Foreitrj and Mas- 

 ter of Forestry. 



Forestry teaching in spring and fall at 

 Manitou Forest (a 7,000-acre forest belong- 

 ing to the School) and the winter term at 

 Colorado Springs. 



Write for announcement giving full in- 

 formation. 



Bryant's Logging 



The Principles and General Methods of 

 Operation in the United States.- By 

 Ralph Clement Bryant, F.E., M.A., Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, Professor of 

 I.umhering. Yale University, 590 pages, 

 (! by !. 1.^3 figures. Cloth net, $4.50 



\ iVwtrnWMin at length of the chief facili- 

 ti<^ aii'1 mrtlifKls for the movement of the 

 timhrr fr-im stump to manufacturing plant, 



(sp'-riall)- IfiKK'iiiK railroads. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



save the tremendous amount of money now 

 spent in freight rates in hauling lumber 

 from distant points to Michigan; if we are 

 to continue as a State known from coast 

 to coast as a 'sportsmen's paradise,' we 

 must be brought to realize that a sensible 

 and sane conservation of what little timber 

 growth we have left, together with the 

 constructive program of reforestation and 

 our denuded areas must be inaugurated. 

 There is no better place to start this work 

 than in the public school. The children of 

 today are the future citizens of this State 

 and they can not know too much about 

 Michigan's forests and what she needs." 



WATER SUPPLY PROTECTED 



.Announcement has just been made by 

 District Forester Geo. H. Cecil, of Port- 

 land, Oregon, of the signing of an agree- 

 ment by Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of 

 Agriculture, and George O. Knowles, May- 

 or of Cottage Grove, for the protection 

 of the water supply of the town of Cottage 

 Grove, Oregon. This agreement provides 

 that the watershed of Dinner Creek, an 

 area of some 6,ooo acres, within the Ump- 

 qua National Forest, will ht protected 

 from fire, use by livestock, from camp- 

 ing or other human use, in order that pos- 

 sible contamination of the city's water 

 supply may be guarded against. No timber 

 will be allowed to be cut within the area 

 prior to 1952, "except where necessary in 

 connection with serious forest fires, in- 

 sect infestation, or other catastrophies 

 which necessitate in the public welfare the 

 immediate salvage of dead or infested tim- 

 ber. No permanent buildings nor camps 

 nor habitations shall be permitted on the 

 area above the intake of the town's water 

 supply system, and all persons employed 

 therein or occupying such lands for any 

 purpose shall observe the strict sanitation 

 regulations as may be agreed upon by the 

 Forest Service and the City of Cottage 

 Grove." The Secretary agrees also, so far 

 as practicable with the means at his dispos- 

 al, to extend and improve the forests upon 

 this watershed by seeding and planting, 

 and by the most approved methods of sil- 

 viculture and forest management. The 

 City agrees to cooperate actively with the 

 officers of the Umpqua National Forest 

 in the protection from fire and patrol of 

 such lands, and to pay the salaries of such 

 additional guards as shall be needed to 

 insure protection. 



Within the states of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington eighty-four cities and towns derive 

 their water supplies wholly from the Na- 

 tional Forests, and the United States 

 Forest Service protects from fire and dele- 

 terious use the watersheds from which 

 these water supplies are derived. The most 

 notable example is that of Bull Run Water- 

 shed, within the Oregon National Forest, 

 which supplies the city of Portland with 

 its entire water supply, and which is very 

 jealously guarded from any use by human 



beings or livestock. United States District 

 Forester Cecil says that the two main func- 

 tions of the National Forests are the pro- 

 duction of timber and the protection of wa- 

 ter supplies, whether these be for municipal 

 use, for irrigation or for water power, and 

 that other uses, such as by livestock and re- 

 creation, important as these have become, 

 must always be harmonized with the two 

 primary functions of timber production and 

 protection of water flows. 



WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST 



Urging immediate action in protecting 

 white pine trees against blister rust, the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, recommends 

 the destruction of all wild and cultivated 

 currant and gooseberry bushes within 600 

 to 900 feet of five-needled pine trees in 

 regions where the disease is present. 



"Do not wait until your pines begin to 

 die, but protect them immediately. Delay 

 means ultimate loss" the Department warns 

 in Department Circular 177, entitled Treat- 

 ment of Ornamental White Pines Infected 

 with Blister Rust, recently issued. 



Unless controlled, the circular declares, 

 the blister rust will mar the beauty of 

 many landscapes and remove one of our 

 most valuable crops from thousands of 

 acres o'f rough land unsuited for agricul- 

 tural purposes. The forest value of the 

 five-needled pines, which fall a ready prey 

 to the disease in the United States andi 

 Canada, is conservatively placed at more 

 than $1,100,000,000. The annual cut is 

 valued at more than $80,000,000, and im 

 the United States the white pine ranks 

 third in lumber production. These figures 

 do not take into consideration the value of' 

 young native reproduction or ornamental, 

 trees that beautify many tiomes and parks, 

 or the value of white pine forests in pro-' 

 tecting watersheds. 



A ROBIN'S GRATITUDE 



Mr. C. M. Roberts, Superintendent ofi 

 Itasca State Park, Minnesota, has written 

 the following letter to Mr. Cox, the State- 

 Forester : 



"Mr. Samuel Myers, of Park Rapids, hast 

 been having quite an experience with 

 robin. In 1918 a robin met with an accin 

 dent which resulted in its losing one leg 

 Mr. Myers took the bird in and cared fof 

 it until it had fully recovered from its in-i 

 juries. The robin became very tame and 

 did not leave the home until fall. 



"Every spring since that time it ha 

 returned to the Myers home and stays th<l 

 entire season, coming into the house and 

 eating out of their hands. The robin vii 

 peared again this spring the same as bei 

 fore." 



