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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



705 of the expense of fighting fires in that 

 state, the state of Oregon spent no money in 

 that direction. 



"This study of comparisons is very in- 

 teresting. The splendid showing in Wash- 

 ington, considering the large number of fires 

 and the comparatively small amount of tim- 

 ber destroyed, is due to the organized effort 

 of private timber owners through the me- 

 dium of the Washington Forest-fire Asso- 

 ciation, as well as to the state and govern- 

 ment, which participated so generously in 

 this work. 



"A few big fires in remote sections of 



Oregon continued burning for weeks, cov- 

 ering a large area, while in Washington 

 the fires were subdued promptly through 

 having fire-fighting forces available. Oregon's 

 lack of preparation would have resulted in 

 a tremendous loss if a corresponding number 

 of fires had started in this state." 



The members of the state board of for- 

 estry are : Governor Benson, R. O. Steven- 

 son, game and forestry warden ; H. C. Mc- 

 Allister, master fish warden ; S. C. Bartrum, 

 of Roseburg; L. S. Hill, of Cottage Grove; 

 Prof. E. R. Lake, of Corvallis, and A. B. 

 Wastell, of Portland. 



EDUCATION 



Colorado School of Forestry 



The Colorado School of Forestry was 

 founded in 1905 by gifts from Dr. William 

 A. Bell and from the late Gen. William J. 

 Palmer. It is particularly fortunate in pos- 

 sessing a tract of 13,000 acres of forest land 

 at Manitou Park, about twenty-five miles 

 west of Colorado Springs near the line of 

 the Colorado Midland Railroad. The forest 

 on the school land consists mainly of western 

 yellow pine and also of a small amount of 

 Douglas fir. On account of the good market 

 for forest products in the vicinity of Mani- 

 tou Park, it is possible to practise very in- 

 tensive methods of forestry. A sawmill is 

 located on the school land at the present 

 time to cut the over-mature and defective 

 trees. 



The faculty of the Colorado School of 

 Forestry was increased this fall by the addi- 

 tion of two professors in forestry and lum- 

 bering who not only are graduates of the 

 Yale Forest School, but have each had sev- 

 eral years of administrative work in the 

 Forest Service on the national forests in 

 Colorado. The faculty has therefore for the 

 instruction in forestry, and lumbering both 

 the advantages of complete technical train- 

 ing and of long experience in the actual prac- 

 tise of forestry. In addition to the two 

 professors who teach forestry and lumber- 

 ing, the faculty includes members of the 

 faculty of Colorado College, of which insti- 

 tution the forestry school is a department. 

 The regular course of the Colorado School 

 of Forestry covers four years and leads 

 to the degree of Forest Engineer. 



The aim of the school is to give a thorough 

 training to students who intend to adopt 

 forestry as a profession and to fit them 

 for positions in the government Forest 

 Service, for positions as state foresters, or 



for private employ as expert foresters. Al- 

 though an undergradua'e course does not 

 give the student opportunity to make as 

 complete study of the academic courses, the 

 curriculum at '.he Colorado School of For- 

 estry includes all the subjects in forestry and 

 allied sciences necessary for thorough train- 

 ing of technical foresters. The Colorado 

 school has the unique advantage of being 

 located within easy reach of several national 

 forests, and its students have therefore am- 

 ple opportunity to inspect the most ex- 

 tensive work in practical forestry which can 

 be found in the country. In addition to this 

 great advantage, the location of the school 

 in the West not only gives prospective for- 

 esters from the East who contemplate posi- 

 tions on the national forests opportunity 

 during their college years to become fa- 

 miliar with western conditions of life, but 

 also gives western young men opportunity 

 to study forestry without undergoing the 

 expense of a long journey to the East. 



The total enrolment of the Colorado School 

 of Forestry this fall was thirty. Of the sev- 

 enteen members of the entering class, sev- 

 eral are from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 

 and other eastern states. The class of 1910, 

 which will be the first to graduate, has four 

 members. 



The first lumbering trip has iust been com- 

 pleted. The Seniors, with Prof. P. T. Cool- 

 idge. spent ten days early in December among 

 the sawmills and logging camps near Fraser 

 on the Arapaho National Forest. Fraser, a 

 small town about eighty-five miles from Den- 

 ver on the Moffat road, is the center of a 

 considerable lumber industry, and is the 

 headquarters of the Arapaho National Forest. 

 This lumbering trip, which is to be an an- 

 nual institution in the school, is part of 

 the policy of teaching forestry and lumber- 

 ing as much as possible in the lumber woods. 



