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GEORGIA STATE FOREST SCHOOL eral electives from any college or school of the university. 



THE Georgia State Forest School at the University This arrangement permits of a wide range of specializa- 

 of Georgia, Athens, Ga., in charge of Prof. James tion, whether it be in the Government service, city for- 

 l'. Berry, occupies a twelve-room stone building, estry, dendropathology, business administration, logging 

 which has been fitted with the class rooms, offices, labora- engineering, agricultural engineering, forest management, 

 tories, museums and library necessary to the successful or research problems in forest by-products, 

 presentation of technical forestry. Four large rooms are The freshman year is devoted to a consideration of 



devoted to museum purposes, each to some particular those basic sciences, botany, inorganic chemistry, Eng- 

 phase of forestry. The library contains a large assort- lish composition, shopwork and drawing, dendrology and 



trigonometry. During the sophomore 

 year the science courses are continued, 

 while additional work in silviculture and 

 surveying is introduced. In this way 

 the student receives his elementary for- 

 estry work in dendrology, silviculture, 

 surveying, and mensuration during the 

 first two years of his course. This ar- 

 rangement of the work, as well as the 

 reduction of the course to a basis of 

 major and minors, permits of the com- 

 bining of two courses of study and the 

 securing of two degrees. Thus, the 

 Bachelor of Science in Forestry degrees 

 may be obtained in five years. 



Forest Camp is located in Fannin 

 County, in the Blue Ridge Mountains 

 of northern Georgia and is situated on 

 the Georgia Tract. The camp equip- 

 ment consists of ' tents and buildings 

 Conditions for work in dendrology, 

 mensuration, and surveying are ideal. 

 The camp site is healthful, the country 

 beautiful, the water abundant and pure, 

 the atmosphere invigorating. A ranger 

 school and a nature-study camp are also 

 conducted at Forest Camp. The scope 

 of the ranger school is limited to prac- 

 tical work in surveying and timber esti- 

 mating for men in the Government serv- 

 ment of books on technical forestry and allied sciences, ice and for practical lumbermen. The nature-study camp 

 all of the Government and State publications, and a file is open to teachers and to persons of mature years gen- 



EXMIBIT OF THE GEORGIA STATE FOREST SCHOOL 



This exhibit was shown at the Georgia State Fair and attracted a great deal of attention and 



favorable comment. 



of some fifty forestry, lumber, trade, and nature-study 

 periodicals. 



The curriculum of the Forest School has been com- 

 pletely revised during the past year, and now approaches 

 the ideal outlined in the standardization of courses. The 

 number of credit hours has been cut to eighteen a year, 

 which is considered as much work as the average student 

 can carry and master. A fourth term has been added, 

 however, to each of the first two years. The summer 

 term is given in Forest Camp, Fannin County, and is 



erally. A correspondence course in farm forestry is 

 offered to citizens of Georgia who, because of time or 

 expense, cannot attend the university. 



IOWA WANTS NATIONAL PARK 



FEDERAL aid will be asked by the Iowa Forestry 

 and Conservation Society, which met at Ames, 

 Iowa, recently, for the creation of a national park 

 devoted principally to field practice, thus securing the in northeastern Iowa, along the Mississippi River, the 

 proper correlation of work. At the beginning of the Switzerland of the Middle West, says a newspaper dis- 

 junior the student is required to designate his specializa- patch. Senator Kenyon already has started the move- 

 tion, and must select the courses he desires to pursue ment in Washington, and Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minne- 

 during the remaining two years. A major and a minor sota Senators and Congressmen are expected to help. 

 must be selected in forestry, a major from one of the Governor Clarke, of Iowa; State Forester Cox, of Min- 

 departments of farm mechanics, agricultural botany, nesota, and tither prominent men have indorsed the 

 horticulture or botany, and twelve credit hours of gen- movement. 



