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THE FORESTER. 



July, 



Assistant is decidedly limited. Parties 

 will be in the field during the coming 

 summer in the Adirondacks, in the State 

 of Washington, and possibly also in 

 Maine. No one will be received as 

 Student Assistant who has not defi- 

 nitely made up his mind to take up for- 

 estry as a profession, although of course 

 no pledge to that effect is required. 



In my judgment the best course for 

 the future forester to pursue, so far as 

 his systematic training is concerned, is 

 first, one year at a university, filling up 

 the blanks in the auxiliary subjects neces- 

 sary, as mentioned in the symposium pub- 

 lished in the May issue of The Fores- 

 ter ; second, a year at a forest school, 

 preferably where practical work in the 

 woods goes hand in hand with theo- 

 retical instruction ; and third, a year 

 abroad. The latter is of the greatest 

 value, because in this country forestry is 

 too young to show the effect of silvi- 



cultural treatment on the various kinds- 

 of forests ; although much that is learned 

 abroad must be unlearned later. This 

 experience in a region where forestry is 

 of old date is, in my judgment, a most 

 essential portion of a forester's educa- 

 tion. It goes without saying that vaca- 

 tions, as far as possible, should be spent 

 in the woods. 



Forestry on its executive side is closer 

 to lumbering than any other calling, and 

 a good knowledge of the lumberman's 

 methods is an essential part of a for- 

 ester's education. But it must not be 

 forgotten that it offers a field for pure 

 research of the widest and most attract- 

 ive character for those who are inclined 

 and can afford to occupy it. It is so 

 broad a subject that as yet we do not 

 quite know what its development and its 

 subdivisions are going to be. 



GlFFORD PlNCHOT. 



Appointments of Student Assistants. 



Names of those selected for field work during the present summer under the direction of the 



Department of Agriculture. 



The opportunity offered by the Divi- 

 sion of Forestry of the Department of 

 Agriculture, for field instruction during 

 the present summer, met with an imme- 

 diate response from a large number of 

 young men, many of them college un- 

 dergraduates, who were desirous of be- 

 coming student-assistants. The great 

 excess of applications made a careful 

 examination and selection necessary, 

 with the result that the following young 

 men have been chosen to work under 

 the direction of these officials: 



Kinsley Twining, Jr., William B. Hodge, 

 Jr., Henry James, 2d., William James, 

 Jr., Frank A. Spragg, E. T. Allen, and 

 William F. Wight. 



With Henry S. Graves, Assistant For- 

 ester of the Department, working in the 

 Adirondacks: Smith Riley, Henry Grin- 

 nell, Fred Nash, Oscar S. Pulman, Jr., 

 Edward T. Grandlienard, M. De Turk 

 High, John Victor Doniphan, Jr., 

 Charles Jones, Edwin Colby Lewis, and 

 William P. Haines. 



With Gifford Pinchot, Forester of the 

 Department of Agriculture, working in 

 the State of Washington : Stuart Hotch- 

 kiss, Richard Thornton Fisher, E. J. S. 

 Moore, E. Koch, J. Frazier- Curtis, 

 William M. Maule, Thomas C. Carson, 



With W. W. Ashe, Forest Expert of 

 the Division of Forestry, in North Caro- 

 lina : A. E. Ames, A. E. Cohoon, J. A. 

 Caldwell, Jr., and H. McC. Curran. 



In the office of the Division of Fores- 

 try at Washington : Treadwell Cleve- 

 land, Jr. 



