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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with op- 

 portunity to specialize in 

 General Forestry, Log- 

 ging Engineering, and 

 Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course of 

 high school grade, cover- 

 ing three years of five 

 months each. 



Special Short Course cover- 

 ing twelve weeks design- 

 ed for those who cannot 

 take the time for the 

 fuller courses. 



Correspondence Course in 

 Lumber and Its Uses. No 

 tuition, and otherwise ex- 

 penses are the lowest. 



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Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



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A Department of Colorado College 

 Colorado Springs, Colorado. 



Professional Courses in Technical For- 

 estry, leading to degrees of Bachelor of 

 Science in Forestry and Master of Forestry. 



Spring and Fall Forestry teaching at 

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

 ing to the College) and the winter term at 

 Colorado Springs. 



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FORESTERS AID IN SHADE TREE 

 PLANTING 



l^OREST Examiner F. S. Baker at a 

 recent meeting of the Society of Inter- 

 mountain Foresters, at Ogden, Utah, com- 

 mented on the street trees of Ogden and 

 other Intermountain towns and pointed out 

 the need for careful study and selection of 

 the trees to be used, and proper care of the 

 trees after they are planted. He stated 

 that the practice which obtains of promis- 

 cuously chopping off the tops of shade 

 trees, apparently with the idea of making 

 them spread in the top and yield more 

 shade, and of course also to make room 

 for wires, is a pernicious one, which civic 

 organizations should take steps toward 

 abolishing. He also urged that each com- 

 munity should formulate a definite plan 

 for the planting of shade and ornamental 

 trees within its limits, and adhere to that 

 plan. He urged the foresters of the Inter- 

 mountain region to actively interest them- 

 selves in this work and in their travels 

 throughout the region to actively assist 

 community leaders in such work. He also 

 urged that careful study of existing situa- 

 tion should be made with a view to secur- 

 ing accurate and complete data on the 

 trees best adapted to the different parts 

 of the Intermountain region, in order that 

 the foresters may be of greater assistance 

 to communities and individuals who are 

 constantly applying for such assistance in 

 developing this community activity. 



GROWING NATIONAL FOREST 

 RECEIPTS 



"DECEIPTS from the National Forests 

 for the seven months ending January 

 13, 1920, totaled $1,418,144.18 as against 

 $1,111,321.21 for the same period of the 

 last fiscal year, according to reports to 

 the Forest Service, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. This is an increase 

 of $306,822.97. Timber sales show the larg- 

 est increase, $271,175.42. Water power 

 comes next, with $17,450.54, followed by 

 special uses, $7,600.61 ; and grazing, $7,022.23. 



FORESTERS FROM INDIA TO COME 

 HERE 



A representative of the British Govern- 

 ment visited the Forests Products Labora- 

 tory at Madison recently to arrange for a 

 later visit of 12 forest engineers whom 

 England is sending to India to establish a 

 forest policy there and to solve problems 

 of reforestation, wood utilization, etc., in 

 that richly forested country. They will 

 make a tour of the United States in the 

 summer and will spend some time at the 

 Forest Products Laboratory studying meth- 

 ods, tests, etc. 



MILLION TREES FOR NEBRASKANS 



|\/| ORE than a million trees from the 

 Bessey Nursery at Halsey, Nebraska, 

 have been distributed among 5,080 people 

 by the Forest Service, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, since 1912. Those 

 receiving the trees are residents of the 

 Kinkaid enlarged homestead district, a 

 cial provision in the act creating this dis- 

 trict having provided that the residi 

 should be entitled to receive trees from 

 the Forest Service. Recently steps have 

 been taken to get the largest benefit from 

 the distribution of trees by arranging with 

 the county agents in the districts to receive 

 applications for trees, to assist in planting 

 trees, and to make annual reports regard- 

 ing the condition of trees coming under 

 their notice. 



FORESTRY LECTURES FOR 

 TEACHERS 



'T'HE school children of Denver are en- 

 joying special opportunities to learn 

 much of value regarding practical forestry 

 problems. A local representative of the 

 Forest Service of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture is giving a si 

 of lectures on subjects relating to forestry 

 to 200 Denver school teachers who, in 

 turn, pass on the information to tl 

 classes. The lectures are illustrated and 

 deal with fire protection in the forests, for- 

 est improvement, grazing, tree planting, 

 game preservation and similar topic-. Work 

 of a somewhat similar character is also 

 being carried on by a forest ranger in 

 Portland, Oregon, who has arranged to give 

 talks to the Boy Scout troops in his vicinity. 



CREOSOTE SOFTWOOD POSTS 



r PHE present high prices of fence posts 

 make it necessary to find something 

 cheaper that can be found near home. 

 Professor G. B. McDonald of the forestry 

 department at Iowa State College has 

 found that softwood posts when treated 

 with some preservative will last as long 

 as the hard wood posts and the only ex- 

 pense is the work of cutting and the pre- 

 servative used. 



Posts to be treated must be peeled and 

 seasoned. An unseasoned post will not 

 take the creosote well and after season- 

 ing in the ground wide cracks open up 

 deeper than the preservative penetrated 

 and decay will start. 



FOR A FOREST POLICY 



A T the recent annual meeting of the 

 Western Retail Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion resolutions as follows were adopted : 



"That the Governors and Representatives 

 in Congress of the Western States be asked 

 to assist in bringing about legislation to 

 formulate a broad national policy of early 

 reforestation of denuded areas in these 

 States. 



"That the plan for the establishment of 

 field posts in the National Forests be en- 

 dorsed and that Congress be urged to pro- 

 vide a reserve line of defense for Forest 

 Service patrols." 



