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that it will U- impossible to use a 

 team. In such places shovels and ^rub 

 hoes can be Used. \\'heii the ditches 

 are complete, favorable weather will 

 be chosen in burn the intervening 

 Space of ^-tubble; thus making a two 

 rod strip absolutely free from combust- 

 ible material and bordered on each 

 side by a six foot strip of bare mineral 

 soil. SOUK- of the roads and trails, 

 also, were cleared out to a width of 

 six or eiidit feet, that thev mi^ht serve 

 as secondary fire breaks within the park. 



duciu- a little forestry and nature 

 study into their school work, tho 

 the -eneral public \\lio are -ufliciently 

 interested in the -reat movement 

 the count!-} to desire a little definite 

 know led xv of forestry, and aNo those 

 desiring an introduction to technical 

 Study, will take advantage of this 

 course. There will also be advanced 

 classes for those who have had more 

 or less experience and training in the 

 technical work. 



This -ives Minnesota a splendid op- 



Minnesota State Forest School, in Itasca Park 



All this work of the past summer 

 was but preparatory to the \vori 

 nexl year, when it is expected to es- 

 tablish a summer school of forestry, 

 as a part of the course now offered at 

 the State- I nivcrsitv. There will be 

 an elementary course', which may or 

 may not lead to the further study of 

 forestry, consisting approximate!) of 

 the following subjects; silviculture, 

 mensuration, taxonomy, xeoloxy. eii- 

 toinoloxy. and surveying. It is ex- 

 pected that teachers, who are intro- 



portunity of !emonstratinx" \\hat can 

 lie d' >\\i' in the a]>plicati' m : <\ ]>v:i< 



5try in the -real piiu-ries of tin- 

 Lake State-. Every type and condi- 

 tion of forest is represented in the 

 park, and the nation of the 



school work with the application of 

 the working plan- m my advant- 



ages to both. It is an id.-al situation 

 for a foresl school. Kxtcnsjve prep- 

 aration- are bein^ madv 1 tr next 

 year's work and it is believed that they 

 an- 



