1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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feet above sea level, a location which 

 is exceedingly healthful, and which 

 commands a splendid view of the Del- 

 aware River Valley near at hand and 

 the even sky line of the Appalachian 

 range, broken here and there by steep 

 wooded valleys. 



In a grove of young oak and hick- 

 ory a double row of tents, each equip- 

 ped with wooden floor, cot, table, 

 chair, washstand and crockery, accom- 

 modates the thirty students of the 

 junior or entering class and the twenty 

 students in the summer school which 

 is operated in conjunction with the 

 regular work of the Yale Forest 

 School. 



used in the spring by the senior class 

 and in the summer for all lectures 

 which are open to the public. Besides 

 these buildings, Mr. Pinchot has given 

 Stone Cottage for the use of the sum- 

 mer school. This contains a lecture 

 hall, botanical laboratory, a small li- 

 brary and a reading room. He has 

 also provided a tract of about two hun- 

 dred acres for experimental work. 



A typical student begins at seven a. 

 m. with breakfast; at eight o'clock a 

 lecture by the director of the school is 

 given on some topic in forest mensura- 

 tion, such as the use of American log 

 rules, the use of height measures and 

 dendrometers, the construction and use 



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The Camp Buildings, Yale Summer School of Forestry 



The school buildings consist of Ju- 

 nior Hall and the club house, both 

 frame buildings, containing single 

 large lecture rooms and huge fire- 

 places, which are for the work of the 

 junior class in the courses in survey- 

 ing and forest mensuration and for 

 use as gathering places for evening 

 study and recreation. A large open 

 building serving as mess hall has also 

 been erected by Mr. James W. Pinchot 

 on this, his country estate. This phil- 

 anthropic gentleman is now also hav- 

 ing erected in Milford, Forest Hall, a 

 large stone building which will contain 

 a spacious lecture hall, which will be 



of volume tables, or the methods of 

 determining the contents of whole 

 stands. Three lectures may be given 

 in a day, with two hours off at noon 

 for dinner, or else lunch is taken along 

 into the woods and the entire day 

 spent in taking sample plots, making 

 valuation surveys, or cutting trees 

 such as chestnut and pitch pine .and 

 making stem analysis. 



Half of the week is spent in this 

 manner and the remainder is occupied 

 by the work in surveying under super- 

 vision of instructors from the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University. 

 Small squads may be sent out on a sur- 



