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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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 fire-rear undergraduate courtei 

 and a two-year graduate course in techni- 

 cal forestrT, leading to the degrees of 

 Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Mas- 

 ter of Forestry. 



Forestry teaching in spring and fall at 

 Maniton 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. 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year 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 Further Particulars Address 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



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 

 Lumbering, Yale University, 590 pages, 

 6 by 9. 133 figures. Cloth net, $4.50 



A discussion at length of the chief facili- 

 ties and methoHs for the movement of the 

 timbrr from stump to manufacturing plant, 



rs!>fTialIy loKRing railroads. 



MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COL- 

 LEGE FORESTRY SUMMER CAMP 



The Forestry Department at Michigan 

 .Agricultural College announces that its 

 annual summer camp for junior foresters 

 will be; held on the forest lands of the 

 .\ntrim Iron Company, a company operat- 

 ing a large saw mill and chemical wood 

 plant in Kalkaska County, Michigan, start- 

 ing the 26th of June and lasting for four 

 weeks. This camp is an annual institu- 

 tion of the Forestry Department. The 

 students live in a logging camp and put in 

 old fashion lumberjack hours in the; woods 

 learning the business of timber cruising, 

 land surveying and logging from the 

 ground up. A lumber camp cook pro- 

 vides them with simple but abundant fare 

 of the quality that is provided for lumber- 

 jacks. 



A CONSERVATION COUNCIL 



A State Conservation Council for Penn- 

 sylvania was organized March 30-31, at 

 State College, Pennsylvania, by twenty-one 

 State and nine county organizations inter- 

 ested in conservation, representing over 

 275,00 people. The object of this Conserva- 

 tion Council is to outline a conservation 

 policy for the State, to correl.ite the efforts 

 of the many State and county wide organi- 

 zations interested in various phases of con- 

 servation and to secure uniformity of action 

 for the support of such measures as are 

 deemed important for the advancement of 

 conservation. 



Among the organizations represented at 

 the meeting were : The Pennsylvania 

 Branch of the Wild Flower Preservation 

 Society, Pennsylvania Forestry Associa- 

 tion, United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, 

 State Chamber of Commerce, Wild Life 

 League, Pennsylvania State Conservation 

 Association, Pennsylvania State Sportsmen 

 Association, Pennsylvania Alpine Club, 

 State Grange, State Federation of Pennsyl- 

 vania Women, Society of Farm Women of 

 Pennsylvania, the Kiwanis Clubs, Boy 

 Scouts of America, Botanical Society of 

 Western Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania 

 State Fish and Game Protective Associa- 

 tion, Pennsylvania Branch, Society of 

 American Foresters, Rotary Clubs, Centre 

 County Conservation Association, Colum- 

 bia County Conservation Association, 

 Berks County Conservation Association, 

 York County Conservation Association, 

 Union and Snyder County Game, Fish and 

 Forestry Association, Anthracite Forest 

 Protective Association, Huntingdon County 

 Conservation Association, Lycoming 

 County Forest Protective Association, Po- 

 cono Forestry Association, Blair County 

 Game, Fish and Forestry Association, Clin- 

 ton County Fishing and Hunting Associa- 

 tion, Bucks County Fish, Game and For- 

 estry Association, and Montgomery County 

 Fish, Game and Forestry Association. 



A Constitution was adopted which gives 

 each State-wide organization three repre- 

 sentatives on the Conservation Council and 



each county one representative. The county 

 representative is to be elected by a County 

 Conservation Federation of all organiza- 

 tions in a county interested in conserva- 

 tion. The Conservation Council will thus 

 be composed of about 130 representatives. 

 The organization members are to retain 

 their own individuality and traditions, but 

 to combine their efforts through the Con- 

 servation Council for developing conserva- 

 tion along the lines of hunting, fishing, for- 

 estry, wild flowers, song birds, recreation 

 and education in conservation. 



Officers were elected as follows : Presi- 

 dent, Dean R. L. Watts, of the School of 

 Agriculture, State College, Pa. ; vice presi- 

 dents. Miss Florence Dibert, Johnstown, 

 Pa., chairman of the Conservation Section 

 of the State Federation of Women ; R. L. 

 Brown, Ellwood City, Pa., president of the 

 Wild Life League of Pennsylvania ; David 

 Prichard, Scranton, Pa., president of the 

 United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania; secre- 

 tary. Prof. J. A. Ferguson, State College, 

 Pa., secretary Pennsylvania Branch, So- 

 ciety of American Foresters ; treasurer, M. 

 I McCreight, Dubois, Pennsylvania Con- 

 servation Association. 



The meetings were addressed by A. B. 

 Farquhar, of York, Pa.; Dr. J. T. Roth- 

 rock, West Chester, Pa. Hon. R. Y. Stuart. 

 State Forestry Commissioner; Hon. N. R. 

 Buller, State Commissioner of Fisheries, 

 and Hon. Seth Gordon, Secretary of the 

 Board of State Game Commissioners, out- 

 lined the future policies of their depart- 

 ments, which were adopted by the Conser- 

 vation Council. 



Resolutions were adopted in favor of the 

 purchase of land by the United States 

 Government for the creation of National 

 Forests in the East ; bonding t*ie State for 

 $25,000,000 for the purchase of wild land of 

 the State; appropriation of $1,000,000 for 

 fire protection in the State ; against the pro- 

 posal to unite the Department of Forestry, 

 Fish, Game and Water under one commis- 

 sion; against the proposal to turn license 

 money from hunters and fishermen into the 

 general treasury of the State, and in favor 

 of the United States Government in co- 

 operation with the States carrying on in- 

 vestigations to stop pollution of our rivers 

 and streams. 



DECAY OF BUILDING TIMBERS 



Fungi that attacks timbers in buildings 

 cause enormous losses every year, particu- 

 larly in textile mills, paper mills and can- 

 ning factories, he.re moisture and temper- 

 ature conditions are unusually favorable to 

 their growth. The problem has become 

 more serious with the increasing use of 

 woods of poorer quality, and the United 

 States Department of .Agriculture has tak- 

 en it up with a view to reducing the losses. 

 Department Bulletin 1053, Studies of Cer- 

 tain Fungi of Economic Importance in the 

 Decay of Building Timbers, by Walter H. 

 Snell, has just been issued. 



