FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



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FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



AT the first regular meeting of the For- 

 estry Club the following officers were 

 unanimously chosen : president, George M. 

 Gowan ; vice-president, Landis J. Arnold ; 

 secretary, Willis M. Wagener; treasurer, 

 Virgil Davis; sergeant-at-arms, Professor 

 Emanuel Fritz. 



Professor Mulford said a few words of 

 greeting and welcome to old and new club 

 members and reminded his hearers that 

 forestry is "of age" as a science in America 

 with the opening of this college year; the 

 first instruction in the subject having been 

 given twenty-one years ago. 



"The very fact that the profession is of 

 age," he said, "obligates all of us to strive 

 for clearer thinking and more solid and 

 adequate foundation work in research than 

 ever before. People have a right to ex- 

 pect more of us and we must strive to 

 measure up to those expectations." He 

 predicted much better days ahead for for- 

 esters and forestry in general in spite of 

 past and present discouragements and said 

 he believed that the outlook for men going 

 into forestry had never been better than 

 at the present time. 



Though only five years old and the 

 youngest division in the College of Agri- 

 culture, the Forestry Division is now 

 fourth in enrollment and but very little 

 below Pomology which is next largest. 



The club received from Hall and Ryerson 

 two interesting mementos of their stay in 

 France. One is the official badge of the 

 French Forest Service today ; the other, 

 which is very rare, is the official badge 

 worn by foresters during the reign ot 

 Napoleon. 



Professor Bruce is at present on a field 

 trip with Forest Examiner S. B. Show in 

 connection with logging and mensuration 

 studies in the Central Sierras. 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



T\ EAN F. G. MILLER, of the Univer- 

 sity School of Forestry at Moscow. 

 Idaho, has just returned from Heybourne 

 Park where he spent several days investi- 

 gating timber conditions and forest cutting 

 there. The trip was undertaken at the re- 

 quest of William J. Hall, State Commis- 

 sioner of Public Works. A more extended 

 reconnaissance is planned for next summer 



Heybourne Park was purchased by the 

 state in 1909 from the Federal Government 

 and comprises some 8,000 acres in addi- 

 tion to Chatcolet Lake. It was dedicated 

 to the people of Idaho. 



Because of its accessibility, its wooded 

 hills and lake, Dean Miller believes that it 

 will soon become the playground of the 

 Northwest. 



Other members of the party were: W. 

 I. Bassett, district engineer of the State 

 Highway Department; M. H. Wolff, forest 

 supervisor of the Coeur d'Alene National 

 Forest; C. L. Billings, lumberman of the 

 United States forest service; Judge E. F. 

 Conklin, superintendent of the park, and 

 E. C. Mohr, in charge of logging opera- 

 tions. 



The purpose of the trip was to decide 

 on a future policy for cutting timber. 



UNIVERSITY OF MAINE 

 /"» W. L. Chapman, a 1914 graduate of 

 the Forestry Department of the Uni- 

 versity of Maine, has been appointed an 

 assistant in the forestry school at Orono. 

 Mr. Chapman has had both practical exper- 

 ience in the field and in teaching, is very 

 highly recommended for his work and has 

 also been in war work. 



The school has had more applications for 

 entrance than ever before in the history of 

 the University, and it looks as if it will 

 have the largest entering class. Many who 

 dropped out during the war period are com- 

 ing back to finish their work, so the pros- 

 pects for the coming college year are most 

 encouraging. 



NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF 

 FORESTRY 



'"PHREE developments of great impor- 

 tance to the New York State College 

 of Forestry at Syracuse University have 

 been announced on the eve of the opening 

 of the college year of 1919-20. They are the 

 inauguration of a department of Forest 

 Recreation; the establishment of the 

 Roosevelt Wild Life Experiment Station ; 

 the beginning of a series of practical for- 

 est operations in the Summer Sophomore 

 Camp at Cranberry Lake. 



The three new departures are essentially 

 different phases of forestry training, but 

 are at the same time allied in some of their 

 phases. 



The department of Forest Recreation 

 was determined upon by Dean Hugh P. 

 Baker, of the College of Forestry, some 

 months ago. Professor Henry R. Francis 

 was selected as the head of the department, 

 and to prepare himself for the work, and 

 to secure data for the opening of the 

 course he spent the summer months in a 

 tour of the National Parks, traveling 8,000 

 miles by rail, 1,200 miles by automobile 

 and 650 by horseback and on foot. In 

 brief the new department will train men in 

 the problems of proper utilization of forest 

 areas for recreation, camping, hunting, 

 fishing, summer camps for city people, 

 tourists, and to help make the forests at- 

 tractive in all phases which appeal to the 

 vacationist. 



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 



Forest Engineering 

 Summer School 



University of Georgia 



ATHENS, GEORGIA 



Eight-weeks Summer Camp on 

 large lumbering and milling oper- 

 ation in North Georgia. Field 

 training in Surveying, Timber 

 Estimating, Logging Engineer- 

 ing, Lumber Grading, Milling. 

 Special vocational courses 

 for rehabilitated soldiers. 

 Exceptional opportunity to pre- 

 pare for healthful, pleasant, lucra- 

 tive employment in the open. 



(Special announcement sent upon 

 request.) 



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