FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



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PENNSYLVANIA STATE FOREST 

 ACADEMY 



f~\N August 13 three seniors completed 

 their 144 weeks' course at Mont Alto. 

 Four other seniors will return in September 

 and work until January 1 to cover work 

 missed while in the Army or Navy. In all 

 seven men will complete work for their 

 B. F. in 1919. 



Four other service men will return to 

 school this fall, entering the second and 

 third year classes. All service men will 

 then have returned to school, except two 

 who have received permanent Lieutenances 

 in the regular army. 



On September 2, with the beginning of 

 the new school year, 33 men were enrolled 

 at the school. The faculty consists of : Prof. 

 E. A. Ziegler, A. M., Forestry and Survey- 

 ing; Prof. VV. M. Drake, M. S. F., Forestry; 

 Prof. George S. Perry, B. F., Forestry; 

 Prof. C. J. Harris, M. S., Biology; Prof. 

 Eugene P. Deatrick, Ph. D., Chemistry and 

 Soils. 



The Legislature adjourning in June 

 granted an increased appropriation for 

 1919-20. 



The chestnut blight is at the height of its 

 attack and the school forest is losing in ex- 

 cess of 100,000 cords of its growing stock 

 on its 23,000 acres. Forester Staley will sal- 

 vage probably 20 per cent of this through 

 sale of tie stumpage, sale of poles, extract 

 wood and some lumber taken out by forest 

 employes. The students have here an ex- 

 cellent study of the utilization of second 

 growth hardwoods which will be the prin- 

 cipal product of the young state forests for 

 a considerable period. The gross income 

 for 1919 will be about $12,000. 



Prof. J. S. Illick has severed his con- 

 nection with the Forest Academy and is 

 now Chief of Division of Silviculture of the 

 Department of Forestry with his office at 

 Harrisburg. 



With deep regret the school announces 

 the loss of Andrew L. AuWerter, Class of 

 1919, the only undergraduate to fall in ac- 

 tion in France. He had enlisted in the 

 Marines and fell in the fighting in the 

 Argonne shortly before the armistice. 



FOREST FIRES DETECTED 

 BY AIR SERVICE 

 r T , IIE importance of the army Air Serv- 

 ice at this time when disastrous forest 

 fires are raging in Montana, Idaho, Wash- 

 ington and Oregon, not now under aerial 

 fire protection, is indicated in California 

 where the Air Service has been the means 

 of detecting many fires which have been 

 quickly extinguished. 



During the week ended July 19 flying of- 

 ficers of the March, Alessandro and Rock- 

 well fields made a total of 65 flights cover- 

 ing 7,707 miles in a little more than 100 

 hours and discovered ten fires. For the 



four weeks ended July 19, 259 flights were 

 made and 27 fires discovered. 



The balloon division is doing superior 

 work from its Ross field, Arcadia station, 

 and so intense is the interest in the work 

 that the commanding officers are par- 

 ticipating personally in observations. 



WIRELESS PHONE IN FOREST 

 WORK 



'"PHE Forest Service wireless telephone 

 has been successfully tried out in 

 Portland. As a result instruments will be 

 installed on Mount Hood for use in case 

 of forest fires. One station will be at the 

 summit of the 11,000-foot snow clad peak 

 and the other at the Zigzag ranger station. 

 The test which was made recently by C. 

 M. Allen, telephone engineer of the Forest 

 Service at a distance of eight miles was 

 eminently successful. 



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HARVARD 



UNIVERSITY 



DEPT. OF FORESTRY 

 BUSSEY INSTITUTION 



/^kFFERS specialized graduate 

 training leading to the de- 

 gree of Master of Forestry in the 

 following fields : — Silviculture 

 and Management, Wood Tech- 

 nology, Forest Entomology 

 Dendrology, and (in co-opera- 

 tion with the Graduate School 

 of Business Administration) the 

 Lumber Business. 



For further particulars 

 address 



RICHARD T. FISHER 



Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 



Forestry at 



University of 



Michigan 



Ann Arbor, Michigan 



A FOUR - YEAR, undergraduate 

 course that prepares for the 

 practice of Forestry in all its 

 branches and leads to the degree of 



BACHELOR OF SCIENCE 

 IN FORESTRY 



Opportunity is offered for grad- 

 uate work leading to the degree of 

 Master of Science in Forestry. 



The course is designed to give a 

 broad, well-balanced training in the 

 fundamental sciences as well as in 

 technical Forestry, and has, conse- 

 quently, proven useful to men en- 

 gaged in a variety of occupations. 

 This school of Forestry was estab- 

 lished in 1003 and has a large body 

 of alumni engaged in Forestry work. 

 For announcement giving 

 Complete information and list 

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