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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



October 



Perhaps no place in the world is 

 better suited for the permanent loca- 

 tion of a forestry school than Idyll- 

 wild, which is in the heart of the San 

 Jacinto Mountains in Riverside coun- 

 ty, California. Three years ago, un- 

 der the patronage of Gifford Pinchot, 

 Chief Forester of the Bureau of For- 

 estry, and Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of 

 the University of California, and at 

 the direct instigation of Dr. Walter 

 Lindley, of Los Angeles, whose inter- 



dents through woods, meadows, and 

 over mountain slopes, demonstrating 

 with living illustrations the practica- 

 bility and necessity of protecting and 

 preserving the watersheds, and help- 

 ing the students to become familiar 

 with the different forms of tree and 

 plant growths, and those most essen- 

 tial and useful for such preservation. 

 At first the interest of the butterfly 

 and drone-bee tourists in the School of 

 Forestry was decidedly lax. From 



Idyllwild Bungalow, San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside County, California 



est in, and devotion to our forests is 

 well known, a Summer School of For- 

 estry a branch of that of the State 

 University was established at this 

 beautiful resort. 



Neither time nor money were 

 spared to make this new innovation 

 a success. Prominent men of the 

 state, experts in their various lines of 

 agriculture, floriculture, and forestry, 

 were engaged to lecture during the 

 two months' term, and to pilot the stu- 



stuffy offices thronged with financial 

 problems, from homes groaning with 

 domestic difficulties and cares, or from 

 social responsibilities of gigantic pro- 

 portions, they had escaped, and had 

 come to the woods to rest and play, 

 but not to think. It seemed that the 

 management was a bit impertinent to 

 ask them to consider anything more 

 serious than the toasting of marsh- 

 mallows over a camp-fire, the reading 

 of "The Thrilling Diamond Robbery" 



