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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. 



For Further Particulars Address 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



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Forestry Training 

 in the Heart of tne Rockies 



The Colorado School qf 

 V * Forestry * * 



A Department of Colorado College 

 Colorado Springs. Colorado. 



I'rofessional Courses in Technical For- 

 estry, leading to degrees of Bachelor of 

 Science in Forestry and Master of Forestry. 



Spring and Fall Forestry teaching at 

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

 ing to the College) and the winter term at 

 Colorado Springs. 



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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FOREST SERVICE BOOSTS ALASKA 



'T'HE Forest Service is definitely com- 

 -*- mitted to the policy of doing its utmost 

 for the fullest development of the timber 

 resources of Alaska. This statement, 

 made by District Forester Cecil, upon his 

 return from an important conference in 

 Seattle, is fully borne out by the recent 

 decision to make more flexible the present 

 timber sale contract requirements of the 

 Forest Service to better fit the unusual 

 Alaskan conditions. 



Mr. Cecil brought out the fact that al 

 though the Forest Service during the past 

 ten years has sold some 400 million feet 

 of timber from the Alaskan National For- 

 ests and that the Service has consistently 

 encouraged the sale of Alaskan pulp 

 woods, that due to the present seriousness 

 of the newsprint situation, a more flexible 

 policy is now justified for the Territory. 

 The new policy provides for granting con- 

 tracts for sufficient timber for a 30-year 

 cut, and makes provision that where addi- 

 tional timber is available, a 15-year addi- 

 tional supply will be reserved for existing 

 pulp plants. 



The new contracts, the District Forester 

 emphasized, are to provide for a readjust- 

 ment of prices at intervals of five years 

 after cutting begins, the first readjustment 

 to be made seven years after signing ( 

 the contract, if the full two-year period 

 allowed for plant construction has been 

 used. In addition, a maximum price is 

 fixed which in no case will be exceeded in 

 the readjustment covering the second five- 

 year period. A third point of the new 

 policy is that the readjusted pulpwood 

 rates are to be based on current pulpwood 

 values in southeastern Alaska. 



The whole aim of the new policy, the 

 District Forester stressed, is to make clear 

 that the Forest Service is willing to make 

 every effort consistent with existing fed- 

 eral laws to bring about the fullest de- 

 velopment and use of the pulp timbers of 

 the Alaskan National Forests. 



IMPORTANCE OF FARM WOODLOTS 



A BOUT half the fuel used on farms in 

 "^ general is furnished directly by the 

 farm in the form of wood. The average 

 farm family uses annually between 9 and 

 10 cords of wood for fuel, in addition to 

 which about 3 tons of coal is bought. 

 The wood, furnished almost altogether bv 

 the farm, represents a very considerable 

 item. The farm woodlot should not be 

 overlooked by the farmer in planning for 

 the economical utilization of the resources 

 of his farm, says the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



"Before 



You Leave 



A Camp Fire 



Be Sure It's Out." 



NATIONAL FOREST FEES 



ryHE nineteen National Forests of Idaho 

 * earned $463,070 in fees during the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1919, of which 25 per 

 cent has been remitted to the state for dis- 

 tribution to roads and schools in tout.ties 

 in which the forests lie. In the California 

 district, including that state and a small 

 part of Nevada, the Forest Service re- 

 ceipts for the quarter ended September 30, 

 have been $147,995 and in the district em- 

 bracing Oregon, Washington and Alaska, 

 $115,134 was collected during the same 

 period. Receipts for the entire Forest 

 Service for the quarter named were more 

 than half a million dollars. These re- 

 ceipts are fees from rental permits for 

 grazing, water power privileges, sites for 

 hotels and similar buildings, etc. 



"Forest Fire Season 



Take No Chances 



With Fire." 



WEALTH OF TRANSCAUCASIAN 

 FORESTS 



'"PHE forest vegetation of Transcauscasia, 

 which covers seventeen per cent of the 

 total area, is such as to place it among the 

 richest of forest countries, says the Trade 

 Commissioner at Constantinople, in a recent 

 report of the Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce. The value and extra- 

 ordinary variety of species (366 different 

 species) which are to be found in these for- 

 ests as well as their commercial importance 

 invite closest attention as it is obvious that 

 the forests will in the near future be eager- 

 ly sought in foreign markets. Negotiations 

 have already been opened by representa- 

 tives from Poland and Italy and by groups 

 of native capitalists with a view to obtain- 

 ing concessions to exploit these forests. 

 These contractors who have made a careful 

 study of the local timber wealth believe 

 that Ttanscaucasia will play an important 

 part in supplying European markets with 

 lumber for construction and that such de- 

 velopments will be active after the delays 

 and damage caused by the war. Firewood, 

 lumber and timber were already, before the 

 war, among the most important articles of 

 metchandise carried by the railways of 

 Transcaucasia. 



The species of woods most commonly 

 found and of the greatest value are the 

 resinous trees, pine, fir and spruce, the 

 last represented in the Caucausus by a spe- 

 cies called oriental spruce, remarkable for 

 the fineness of its grain and furnishing, in 

 addition to saw wood for building, wood 

 highly priced in the manufacture of musical 

 instruments. The forests furnish also many 

 by-products of great commercial value such 

 as tannin and gallic acid, trees and bushes 

 which produce excellent organic materials 

 for dyeing, vegetable oils, and plants with 

 curative and valuable chemical properties. 



