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FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 

 Carl A. Kupfer, of the United States 

 Forest Service, recently gave the Forestry 

 Club a very interesting account of the work 

 of the Forest Products Laboratory at 

 Madison during the war. Two exceedingly 

 well arranged reels of moving pictures, 

 showing different aspects of the work in 

 timber testing, airplane glue research, 

 dry kiln experiments and wood preserva- 

 tion tests were a feature of the evening's 

 program. 



At a meeting of the Forestry Club around 

 the camp fire in Telegraph Canyon, Colonel 

 W. B. Greeley, assistant forester, gave an 

 interesting and inspiring talk on the pro- 

 gress of forestry in the United States. 



After six months of deliberation, the 

 Board of Regents has appointed Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel David P. Barrows to the 

 presidency of the University. Colonel Bar- 

 rows is essentially an out of door man who 

 knows intimately and loves the mountains 

 and forests of California. Forestry and 

 conservation can be sure of constructive 

 interest and support from the new presi- 

 dent. 



The end of the fall semester marked the 

 close of an epoch in the life of the For- 

 estry Division at California. With the 

 opening of the new term on January 13, 

 an entirely new arrangement of courses 

 went into effect. This is made possible by 

 a radical revision of the curriculum of the 

 College of Agriculture, which allows more 

 latitude in the selection of courses of 

 interest to foresters. 



Ansell F. Hall, '16, will assist Professor 

 Mulford with the course in General For- 

 estry. He was granted leave of absence 

 by the National Park Service, until May 

 15. He is regularly stationed in Yosemite 

 National Park. 



The forest library has been enriched by 

 the purchase of over one hundred volumes 

 of French books on forestry. These in- 

 clude a nearly complete set of the "Revue 

 des Faux et Forets" and such standard 

 texts as "Technologie Forestiere" by H. 

 Nanquette, "L'Amenagement des Forets" 

 by L. Tassy and "Traite de Sylviculture" 

 by A. Jacquot. The acquiring of these 

 books was made possible through the kind 

 cooperation of Lieutenant Colonel Woolsey, 

 who arranged for their purchase during his 

 stay in France. 



Among the books presented to the library 

 by Hall, '16, and Ryerson, 16, are the 

 rare two-volume folio edition of the 

 "Statistique et Atlas des Forets de France" 

 by Lucien Daubree and an exact pen and 

 ink copy with English translation of the 

 working plan document for the manage- 

 ment of the forest of Gerardmer. 



UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 

 AN interesting feature of the Ranger 

 School this winter will be a Rangers 

 council or seminar in which studies will be 

 made of the problems of the District Ran- 

 ger.. Their problems will be presented and 

 discussed by the rangers, and the meet- 

 ings will be organized and entirely con- 

 trolled by themselves, only such advice or 

 expert help being brought in as is request- 

 ed by the council. 



An unusually strong organization of ex- 

 perts and professional workers in various 

 lines of forestry, lumbering and grazing 

 have been secured to assist the regular 

 teaching force in the ranger school. Stu- 

 dents will, during the twelve weeks of 

 the school, come in contact with and re- 

 ceive instructions from some forty ex- 

 perts in the various branches of their 

 work. 



An unusually large number of applica- 

 tions for registration in the Ranger 

 School have been received in advance of 

 any published announcement of the short 

 course for this year prospects point to a 

 large enrollment from the southwestern dis- 

 tricts for the new short course in grazing. 



Assistant Forester W. B. Greeley, of the 

 Washington office of the Forest Service, 

 recently addressed the Forest School in a 

 very interesting lecture on various prob- 

 lems of a national policy in forestry. 



Mr. Greeley emphasized the fact that a 

 timber famine would come about long be- 

 fore our forests were exhausted in a scar- 

 city of timber rather than a complete lack 

 of timber. He said that this famine was 

 even now felt in the east where the large 

 wood using industries were finding their 

 supply of timber at an increasingly farther 

 distance. Many of them are being forced 

 to close down, Mr. Greeley stated, because 

 of the cost of bringing in wood material 

 from a great distance, and many of them 

 are abandoning costly plants in order to 

 move nearer a new supply of wood. 



He foresaw that the northwest would be- 

 come important soon in the pulp and paper 

 industry. 



The assistant forester feels that too lit- 

 tle interest is being shown in reforesta- 

 tion and the restoration of forest growth 

 to lands valuable only for forest growth. 

 Timber is being cut rapidly and often 

 wastefully, and is not being replaced. 

 Our accessible timber of sorts upon which 

 wood using industries depend will soon be 

 exhausted with nothing being done to re- 

 place it. The supply of southern pines is 

 even now nearly gone. Figures are not 

 available to show how nearly loss by fire 

 and other devastation balance new forest 

 growth. 



"Get forest growth I" says Mr. Greeley, 

 should be the watchword of every forester. 



