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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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Professional Courses in Technical For- 

 estry, leading to degrees of Bachelor of 

 Science in Forestry and Master of Forestry, j 



Spring and Fall Forestry teaching at I 

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

 ing to the College) and the winter term at 

 Colorado Springs. 



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FORESTRY SCHOLARSHIPS 



'T'HREE students of forestry have been 

 awarded American-Scandinavian Foun- 

 dation Fellowships, entitling the winners 

 to spend a year, expenses paid, studying 

 forestry in Sweden and Norway. Perry 

 H. Merrill, of the New York State College 

 of Forestry, class of 1917, is awarded a 

 fellowship and has resigned as Assistant 

 State Forester of Vermont to accept. He 

 leaves about the first of July. Bertram 

 Eugene Claridge and Clarence Wilford 

 Watson, both of the Yale Forest School, 

 of Yale University, have been awarded the 

 other two fellowships. Lloyd W. Wise, 

 from the Forestry Department of the Ohio 

 State University, is an alternate. Mr. 

 Henry J. Melony, of the New York State 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse, sent to 

 Sweden last fall as the first American ex- 

 change fellow in forestry, is returning to 

 this country after completing his year 

 abroad. 



FORESTRY A LAND PROBLEM 



"PORESTRY is a land problem, the 

 art of producing repeated crops of 

 timber and other forest products from soils 

 unsuited to agriculture. Forestry is not 

 agriculture, since it concerns itself only 

 with soils which cannot be tilled. It is, 

 however, a kindred art, and between the 

 forester and agriculturist, the land prob- 

 lems of the State and Nation must be 

 solved." This was the declaration of Acting 

 Dean F. F. Moon, of the New York State 

 College of Forestry, in opening the farmers 

 day of Forest Week in April. "Figures 

 show that nearly one-half of the land sur- 

 face of New York State could be devoted 

 to full production of tree crops and other 

 forest products. We say that no State can 

 truly prosper whose land area is only half 

 productive and one-half idle. In order to 

 make our farm properties produce to the 

 maximum, the owners must consider their 

 woodlots a producing part of the farm. 

 The firewood must be cut where the trees 

 are too thick, or where the removal of the 

 dead, suppressed and diseased trees will 

 improve the growth.. 



"The marketing of the products of the 

 woodlot is most important, and our wood 

 utilization service is today bringing many 

 farmers producing timber into touch with 

 the best markets. This, we believe, will 

 do more to bring about a right use of the 

 farm woodlot than anything else." 



DAMAGE BY BEAVERS 

 J^NERGETIC steps to protect the beauty 

 of Adirondack lakes from damage by 

 beavers, through flooding and killing of 

 timber, are to be taken this season by the 

 Conservation Commission's field force, as 

 a result of an order sent by Commissioner 

 Pratt to all game protectors and forest 

 rangers. These men are instructed them- 

 selves to take the initiative hereafter in 

 tearing out beaver dams and destroying 

 beaver houses where extensive damage is 

 being caused to property. 



BRICK MEN FOR CONSERVATION 

 "DESOLUTIONS urging conservation of 

 our forests and of timber were passed 

 at the recent annual convention of the Com- 

 mon Brick Manufacturers' Association of 

 America. They urged that National and 

 State Governments put into effect a com- 

 prehensive plan for a system of scientific 

 cutting of timber and reforestation 



Because the many buildings constructed 

 of wood have been largely responsible for 

 exhausting the supply of lumber and caus- 

 ing the destruction of forests and standing 

 timber produced by long years of growth 

 and development impossible of replacement 

 without similar long years of growth, if 

 replaced at all ; 



Because the destruction of much of such 

 growths of timber seriously affects the 

 watersheds of this country, results in an 

 enormous economic loss through lack of 

 fullest conservation of the country's nat- 

 ural resources, and impairs the landscape, 

 scenic effects and privileges of the people; 



Because all such timber as can, through 

 scientific cutting and reforestration be 

 spared, should be made available for such 

 of the diversified uses of man than which 

 no other more suitable or satisfactory 

 material is obtainable. 



PAPER PULP FROM COTTON 

 LINTERS 



A SPLENDID quality of book and bond 

 paper may be made from the waste 

 cotton seed hulls left from the ginning of 

 cotton, as has been demonstrated by recent 

 tests at the Forest Products Laboratory. 

 There is some fibrous matter left on the 

 seed hulls which cannot be removed in the 

 ginning process and this with the hulls 

 makes the finest of wood pulp for high- 

 grade papers. It is of fine texture and is 

 difficult to tear. The study of processes 

 for the manufacture of these fine papers 

 from cotton linters has assisted in arrang- 

 ing for the sale of 700,000,000 pounds of 

 linters acquired by the Government for 

 making explosives. Now that explosives 

 are no more needed and that the Govern- 

 ment has this vast amount of left-over 

 material on hand, its utilization in paper 

 making is of great commercial importance. 



HOW TO MAKE SOUTHERN WOOD- 

 LANDS PROFITABLE 

 A BULLETIN "Making Woodlands 

 " Profitable in the Southern States," 

 containing numerous illustrations has been 

 prepared by forestry specialists of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 for the benefit of southern farmers inter- 

 ested in making their woodlands more prof- 

 itable. It contains suggestions regarding 

 the marketing of many kinds of logs, and 

 calls attention to the importance of wise 

 cutting. The need of protecting seedlings 

 in woodlands is emphasized, and the waste- 

 ful stripping of land, such as has laid bare 

 so many slopes, is condemned. Photo- 

 graphs show the evil results that follow 

 short-sighted practices. 



