1900. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



knowledge of forestry. 4. Students of 

 forestry who wish to occupy their vaca- 

 tion in practical forest work. 5. Students 

 of forestry who are deficient in certain 



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subjects. 6. Graduate students desirous 

 of pursuing advanced forest work. ^ . 

 Possible students of forestry who desire to 

 investigate the subject. 



The Summer School will be opened in 

 July, 1901. The regular course of in- 

 struction will cover, in general, the techni- 

 cal work given the first year at the Yale 



School of Forestry. Informal lectures 

 will be given upon the nature and scope 

 of forestry, upon silviculture, forest 

 measurements and forest botanv. Practi- 



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cal instruction will be given in the woods 

 in marking thinnings and other cuttings, 

 in establishing plantations, taking forest 

 measurements, and in other forest work 

 useful to those taking the courses. The 

 professor in charge of the school will 

 direct the studies of those who may wish 

 to carry on special forest work. 



Grazing in the Western Forest Reserves. 



An Official Investigation of the Facts to be Made by the Division of Forestry, 

 Upon Request of the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Agriculture. 



The question of grazing in the Western 

 forest reserves has been taken up by the 

 Department of the Interior for a complete 

 investigation of the claims advanced bv the 



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advocates and opponents of the opening of 

 the reserves to sheep-grazing. Secretary 

 Hitchcock has lately written Secretary 

 Wilson, of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, asking that the Division of Forestry 

 investigate the effect of sheep-grazing on 

 the forests, and an inquiry will be begun 

 at once. As no general rule can be ap- 

 plied, each reserve will be studied sepa- 

 rately. 



This work will be conducted by the 

 Division of Forestry, which has prepared 

 a comprehensive plan for securing infor- 

 mation. 



As it is desired to collect impartially the 

 testimony of both sides, lists of questions 

 will be sent to the thousands of sheep- 

 grazers and their opponents for the ex- 

 pression of individual opinions concerning 

 the effect of grazing. This information 

 will be used later in connection with the 

 official examination of the reserves, which 

 will begin July i, in which botanists, irri- 

 gation experts and other scientific men 

 from all parts of the United States and 

 also all will be engaged for several months 

 in the field. 



In the letter referred to above, Secretary 

 Hitchcock enumerates the points upon 

 which he desires to lay special emphasis, 

 as follows : 



" Grazing in the national forest reserves, 

 being one of the most important of all the 

 questions which relate to them, will 

 naturally form a chief subject of the re- 

 ports. In the necessary investigations and 

 in preparing these reports, I have the 

 honor to request that special attention be 

 given to the following phases of the sub- 

 ject : 



"i. The grazing industry in the forest 

 reserves in relation to taxation and the 

 general prosperity of specified localities. 



" 2. The relation of grazing to forest 

 fires. 



"3. The relation of grazing to the pres- 

 eryation and reproduction of forests. 



' ' 4. The relation of grazing to irrigation 

 and water supply. 



"5. The relative effect of grazing by 

 various kinds of stock. 



" 6. Moderate grazing and over-grazing 

 in forest reserves." 



The present investigation has been 

 brought about largely by the controversy 

 which has raged for many years in the 

 West, involving cattlemen, wool-growers 

 and farmers throughout that entire section. 



