FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



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FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



CINCE the last writing the Forestry Club 

 has held two well attended meetings and 

 planned for activities during the semester. 

 A club hike will be taken to Lagunitas and 

 Little Carson Canyons in Marin County on 

 Sunday, October 12th. A large attendance 

 is expected as the route of the trip lies 

 through some very fine bodies of redwood 

 and Douglas fir timber. 



A get-together meeting of all students and 

 faculty members of the College of Agricul- 

 ture was held September 15th. Dean Hunt 

 welcomed the 250 freshmen and the large 

 number of former students and faculty re 

 turning from military service. His mes- 

 sage to all was "Do something every day, 

 don't just start something." 



Professor Walter Mulford is taking a 

 much needed vacation in the mountains of 

 Santa Cruz County. 



Professor Donald Bruce has gone to 

 Portland, Oregon, to attend the sessions of 

 the Pacific Logging Congress and Western 

 Forestry and Conservation Association 

 there. 



The Forestry Club members are discuss- 

 ing the possibility of resuming publication 

 of "California Forestry," the Club maga- 

 zine which was discontinued because of the 

 war. It is a big undertaking but a majority 

 of the boys seem to feel that they can put 

 it through successfully. 



Ninety men of the Australian overseas 

 forces have come to the University for sev- 

 eral months' training before returning to 

 their country. Most of the men are at the 

 farm school at Davis. Lieutenant Norman 

 Jackson, who plans to go into the lumber 

 business with his brother in Australia is 

 registered in several university courses. He 

 enlisted in 1914, went thiough the Galli- 

 poli campaign and served until the end of 

 the war in France. He has many interest- 

 ing stories to tell of incidents which oc- 

 curred during his varied military service 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 

 ]Y*R. C. EDWARD BEHRE, recently 



returned from a two years' service 

 overseas with the forest engineers, has ac- 

 cepted a call to an assistant professorship 

 in forestry and arrived to take up his work 

 October I. Mr. Behre is a graduate of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School, and received his 

 master's degree in forestry from the Yale 

 Forest School in 1917, graduating with 

 highest honors. His training and experi- 

 ence fit him admirably for his new posi- 

 tion, and he comes to it with strong recom- 

 mendations from those who know his work. 

 I. W. Cook, associate professor of for- 

 estry, has resigned to accept an important 

 position with a large lumber company. He 

 has been with the School of Forestry sev- 



eral years and has rendered both the Uni- 

 versity and the state splendid service in 

 promoting the cause of forestry. 



The ranger course offered by the School 

 of Forestry is designed to meet the needs 

 of rangers and guards wishing to prepare 

 themselves for more rapid advancement ; 

 for young men planning to take the civil 

 service examination for the position of for- 

 est ranger in the U. S. Forest Service; also 

 for men connected with some phase of the 

 timber industry who wish to acquire a 

 knowledge of the general principles of 

 forestry, but who cannot spare the time for 

 a fuller course. 



Young men never had so many reasons 

 for making thorough preparation for their 

 work as right now. This is especially true 

 of those engaged in forestry and the for- 

 est industries, as the demand for men 

 trained in these lines is far in excess of the 

 supply, and opportunities for advancement 

 were never better. This course offers a 

 chance to share these opportunities. It is 

 given at a time of the year when you can 

 best get away from your work, yet each 

 session is of sufficient length to enable you 

 to make your training thorough. 



Every facility of the School of Forestry 

 is offered to short course students just as 

 fully as to the students of the long course. 

 The equipment for handling the work is 

 complete and up to date. The work will 

 consist of laboratory exercises, actual field 

 practice, and lectures by the forest faculty, 

 Forest Service officials, lumbermen and 

 others. 



Admission to classes is without examina- 

 tion. The work is of high school grade, 

 hence any young man who has had the 

 equivalent of eighth grade or grammar 

 school preparation may attend. For further 

 information apply to F. G. Miller, Dean, 

 School of Forestry, University of Idaho, 

 Moscow, Idaho. 



OF 



NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE 

 FORESTRY AT SYRACUSE 

 UNIVERSITY 



C WEDEN, through the American-Scand 



navian Foundation, has sent a trained 

 forester, A. E. F. Schard, to the New York 

 State College of Forestry at Syracuse for 

 special study in American methods in for- 

 estry, on an inter-change of students by 

 which the United States sent Henry M. 

 Melloney, of the New York State College 

 of Forestry to Sweden for study there. 

 Both men rank as fellows of the American- 

 Scandinavian Foundation, and will get a 

 handsome financial allowance to make pos- 

 sible their securing the best information 

 possible on forestry methods in the coun- 

 tries to which they are sent. Mr. Schard 

 came to this country to study particularly 



Please Mention American Forestry Magazine when writing adv 



PULPWOOD 



TIMBER 



ON 



BLACKFEET 

 NATIONAL FOREST 



MONTANA 



The Forest Service calls the 

 attention of paper manu- 

 facturers to a tract of 

 timber on the North Fork 

 of Flathead River, within 

 the Blackfeet National 

 Forest, Montana, and ap- 

 proximately 12 miles 

 from Columbia Falls, on 

 the Great Northern Rail- 

 way. This area contains 

 at least 500,000,000 feet 

 of stumpage, 70 per cent 

 of which consists of 

 Engelmann spruce, hem- 

 lock, and other species 

 suitable for wood pulp. 

 Undeveloped water power 

 is available in sufficient 

 quantities for manufac- 

 turing purposes. 



All information available 

 concerning this area will 

 be furnished upon re- 

 quest by the District 

 Forester, U. S. Forest 

 Service, at Missoula, Mon- 

 tana. The Forest service 

 is prepared to consider 

 terms of sale for this 

 stumpage on a basis 

 which will make the in- 

 stallation of a plant for 

 the manufacture of paper 

 feasible. Inquires are 

 invited. 



