AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



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 of the thirteen boys in the class are plan- 

 ning to take up forestry in the University. 

 Professor Walter Mulford has been ap- 

 pointed a member of the Research Com- 

 mittee of the Save the Redwoods League, 

 which organization is conducting a very 

 active campaign for the setting aside of 

 some of the finest bodies of redwood in 

 Humboldt County as either National or 

 State parks. The chairman of this com- 

 mittee is Meritt . B. Pratt, now deputy 

 State Forester, but formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor of Forestry at Berkeley. 



UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 

 'T'HE Forest School opened on October 

 1st with an enrollment of 60 students, 

 of whom nearly half are non-residents of 

 Montana. States represented are South 

 Dakota, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, California, 

 Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Indi- 

 ana, New York, Wisconsin, Missouri, Min- 

 nesota, Nebraska, Massachusetts, South 

 Dakota, Kansas, and Idaho. Also one 

 student from Canada, one from New Zea- 

 land, and two from the Phillippine Islands. 



The Forest School counts itself very 

 fortunate this year in having among its 

 students Felix Franco, and Placido 

 Decanay who are foresters from the Philip- 

 pine Islands. These gentlemen are native 

 Filipino foresters of a group of five 

 Philippine forest officers who are being 

 sent to schools of forestry in this country 

 at the expense of the Philippine govern- 

 ment. Both of these men have graduated 

 from the government school of forestry in 

 the Philippine Islands and have had ex- 

 perience as Forest Supervisors in the 

 Philippine Forest Service. 



The Forestry Club has started its series 

 of lively meetings. Special consideration 

 is being given this year by the members of 

 the Forestry Club to the question of a 

 national forest policy. 



The annual meeting of officers of the 

 Forestry Club resulted in the election of 

 H. Whisler, a senior student, as president 

 of the Club for the forthcoming year. 

 R. A. Williams, William Zeh and G. M. 

 Dejarnette, all junior students, were elected 

 treasurer, secretary and vice-president. 



Dean Skeels recently visited the annual 

 session of the Pacific Logging Congress at 

 Portland, Oregon, and a convention of rep- 

 resentatives of the faculties of the schools 

 of Forestry in the state universities of 

 California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and 

 Montana. Dean Skeels has made an in- 

 teresting report of the proceedings of the 

 Logging Congress. Of especial interest to 

 foresters of the northwest was the con- 

 sideration given by the Logging Congress 

 to conservation and forest protection prob- 



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lems in general and particularly to the 

 issues which are leading towards the defi- 

 nition of a stronger policy of forestry for 

 the nation. 



Steps are being taken through state au- 

 thorities for the acquisition of the Fort 

 Missoula timber reservation as a working 

 forest for the School of Forestry. 



The faculty is co-operating in an im- 

 portant way with the Forest Service mem- 

 bers of the Missoula branch of the Society 

 of American Foresters in preparing a pre- 

 liminary plan for such part of a national 

 forestry policy as will apply to the inter- 

 mountain region. 



As a part in furthering a better policy of 

 forestry Dean Skeels and Professors 

 Spaulding, Fenska and Lansing are also 

 preparing material for a complete report to 

 the state authorities of Montana regarding 

 the present forestry problems relating to 

 state lands and looking towards improve- 

 ment of the state policy for forestry mat- 

 ters in general. 



New features for the short course for 

 Forest Rangers which has for twelve years 

 been held during the winter quarter of the 

 school year will be courses of specializa- 

 tion in grazing and forest engineering. 



