AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



SCHOOL OF FORESTRY, COLORADO 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



O INCE June 9 forestry students of Colo- 

 ^ rado Agricultural College have been 

 occupying the Forestry Lodge 45 miles west 

 of Fort Collins in the heart of the Rockies, 

 writes Professor W. J. Morrill. There 

 are six students in the summer course, 

 which is optional, but of great importance 

 in the preparation of foresters for western 

 conditions. 



"The Lodge is rather inaccessible, thirty 

 miles from a post office and ten miles 

 from the end of possible auto transporta 

 tion. But it is well equipped with hot and 

 cold water, two bath rooms, screened 

 sleeping porches, a large stone fireplace, 

 good kitchen and the inevitable game of 

 horseshoes. Eight miles by trail and half 

 that distance by air line is the top of 

 Hagues Peak, 13,562 feet elevation, and 

 Hallell's Glacier, in the Rocky Mountain 

 National Park. The night air is direct 

 from the glacier, which causes one to 

 hunt for all the bedding available. The 

 Lodge is at an elevation of 9,027 feet, in 

 Pingree Park. 



"The college owns 800 acres of Lodge- 

 pole and Engelmann spruce near the Lodge 

 and about the same acreage some nine 

 miles east of here. Timber cruising, map- 

 ping, surveying, forest entomology, field 

 geology and silvicultural operations, to- 

 gether with trout fishing and hiking take 

 up the time. And soon we shall move, by 

 man packing, over the Continental Divide 

 to study logging and milling in Middle 

 Park." 



were mostly two-year old seedlings and 

 four-year old transplants. They were sold 

 to farmers of the State at practically cost 

 for forest planting. 



MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COL- 

 LEGE, FORESTRY DEPARTMENT 

 'T'HE Forestry Summer School was held 

 this year on the lands of the East 

 Jordan Lumber Company, near East Jor- 

 dan, Michigan. There were twenty-six 

 students enrolled and the courses given 

 were forest mensuration and lumbering. 

 The camp was located in a tract of virgin 

 hardwood, hemlock and pine timber which 

 offered excellent facilities for the work. 

 Three ball games were played by the stu- 

 dents during the course of the school, two 

 with East Jordan and one with Charlevoix. 

 Eight men graduated from the Forestry 

 Department of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College in June and one more graduated at 

 the end of the summer course in August. 



All of the freshmen agricultural students 

 of the college take a course in farm fores- 

 try which this year was given to one hun- 

 dred and seventy-five students. These were 

 in addition to the students specializing in 

 forestry. 



The Forestry Department of the College 

 shipped 105,000 trees this spring. These 



NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF 



FORESTRY 

 TPHE summer of 1920 has seen all records 

 broken in calls for practical trained 

 foresters for field work in every part of 

 the country, according to the figures given 

 by the New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse. Part of the work of the col- 

 lege has come to be an employment de- 

 partment for its men, under which an effort 

 will be made to properly place, according 

 to their qualifications, foresters and under- 

 graduate students in actual field work 

 along professional lines. 



The system was worked o'lt definitely 

 this spring, through a faculty committee, 

 of which O. M. Porter, former Forest Serv 

 ice man, a returned captain of Forest En- 

 gineers, was the executive man, and this 

 work will be continued permanently as a 

 function of the extension department of 

 the college. Laurance Lee has taken over 

 the work of Mr. Porter, who has become 

 assistant secretary of the American Paper 

 and Pulp Association, under Dr. Hugh P 

 Baker, former Dean of the New York 

 State College of Forestry, and has begun 

 a plan of checking up with employers on 

 the work of the men who were sent out 

 by the college. 



There were calls for about 400 men for 

 practical forestry or lumbering work re- 

 ceived by the college this spring, of which 

 about eighty were for permanent employ- 

 ment for graduates, and the other for sum- 

 mer work for students who have not com- 

 pleted their work. The calls came from 

 about seventy-five sources, ranging from 

 the Federal Forest Service to private lum 

 bering companies, and places as counsel- 

 lors in boys recreational camps. This great 

 demand was a surprise even to Syracuse 

 foresters who had seen the demand for 

 foresters increase with the growth in 

 America of the forestry idea. 



Some of the work being done by these 

 foresters is as follows : Two men are in 

 parties cruising pulp wood lands in north- 

 ern Ontario. A party headed by Prof. 

 Reuben P. Pritchard, and including one 

 graduate student, one alumnus, of an early 

 class, two graduates of this year's class and 

 two freshmen, is working for the James D. 

 Lacey Company, near Cheat Bridge, West 

 Virginia. Five men are in Wyoming driv- 

 ing tie timber on the rivers, under a new 

 plan by which a lumber corporation is em- 

 ploying college men instead of the old 

 "river hogs" to drive the rivers. One of 

 this year's class has gone to management 

 plan work for the Federal Service's new 



FORESTERS ATTENTION 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will gladly print free 

 of charge in this column advertisements of for- 

 esters, lumbermen and woodsmen, discharged or 

 about to be discharged from military service, who 

 want positions, or of persons having employment 

 to offer such foresters, lumbermen or woodsmen. 



POSITIONS OPEN 



"CIVIL ENGINEER TO SURVEY AND MAKE 

 DETAIL MAPS. ABOUT 2,000 ACRES, NEAR 

 NORWICH, CONNECTICUT. EXCELLENT 

 BOARD AND LODGING. STATE TIME 

 AND TERMS. Address Box 940, care of 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



MAN WANTED with technical training and 

 practical experience sufficient to make him 

 thoroughly competent as a developer of Park 

 plans, and also Park Superintendent both in 

 road construction, planting and landscape work 

 and Director of Forestry Service upon the 

 public streets and parks of the city. Address 

 Box 910, American Forestry Magazine, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (6-9-20) 



POSITION OPEN for Forest School Graduate. 

 Work along practical and technical lines. Lo- 

 cation, Southern Appalachians. Answer in own 

 handwriting and state age, training and ex- 

 perience, and salary desired. Address Box 950, 

 Care American Forestry Magazine, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



WANTED An assistant forester. Good place of- 

 fered for a recent graduate who would like to 

 get in business for himself in an excellent lo- 

 cation. Address Box 920, American Forestry 

 Magazine. (8-10/20) 



POSITIONS WANTED 



WANTED Position as Forester and Land Agent. 

 Technically trained forester, 35 years old. 

 Practical experience along all lines included 

 under the duties of the above positions. For- 

 mer Captain, Field Artillery. Address Box 840, 

 care American Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



A FORESTRY graduate with several years ex- 

 perience in forest work and at present em- 

 ployed along technical and administrative 

 lines desires responsible position with private 

 concern operating in and outside the United 

 States. Address Box 870, care of American 

 Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. C. 



DISCHARGED SAILOR would like position as 

 assistant forester or a permanent position as 

 surveyor with some lumber company with a 

 chance for advancement. Salary is of secondary 

 consideration. Married, so would have to 

 locate in some small town. Have had four 

 years' practical experience in general forestry, 

 and some tree surgery. Address Box 900, care 

 of AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, 

 Washington, D. C. 



SUPERINTENDENT retail lumber and build- 

 ing material establishment desires connection 

 with progressive lumber concern in locality 

 where there is opportunity for growth. West, 

 Southwest or Middle West preferred, but not 

 essential. Several years experience retail and 

 manufacturing, also eighteen months overseas 

 with Forestry Engineers. Available after Au- 

 gust ISth. Address Box 930, care of AMERI- 

 CAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, 

 D. C. (8-10-20) 



POSITION wanted by technically trained For- 

 ester. Have had fourteen years experience 

 along forestry lines, over five years on the 

 National Forests in timber sale, silvicultural 

 and administrative work; three years experi- 

 ence in city forestry, tree surgery and landscape 

 work. Forester for the North Shore Park Dis- 

 trict of Chicago. City forestry and landscape 

 work preferred, but will be glad to consider 

 other fines. Can furnish the best of reference. 

 Address Box 600, Care American Forestry 

 Magazine, Washington, D. C. 



