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aii'l under the new scheme of adminis- 

 tration which distribute- alx>ut one-half 

 of the force formerly located in Wash- 

 ington to hranch offices in the \\< 

 over seventy-five per cent, of the For- 

 est Service employees arc located here. 

 Furthermore, as the great lu-ed for men 

 is in the field, the majority of new men 

 arc -eiit to the We-t. 



With the \\"est as tin- .uivat field of 

 operation, is it not unfortunate that so 

 relatively few of the men who will find 

 their lifework here 1 do not have the 



National Forest, and within a half- 

 hour'- ride hy rail from ('ol<>rad 

 Springs the Forest Service maintain- 

 one of the largest foresl nurseries of the 

 re-ion. Through the o>nrte-y of the 

 |-'orc-t Service the student- of tin- 

 school of fore-try are allowed to -tudy 

 the work that i- liciu- carried on in 

 the National Forests, thu- increasing 

 the opjH.rtnnitie- for a thorough field 

 preparation and placing the student into 

 direct contact with the work for which 

 lie i- preparing himself. 



Lumbering at Manitou Park 



opportunity to use the forests of the 

 West as a laboratory. The condition- 

 of the country and of the protY-sion 

 make the demand for a good -chool of 

 forestry in the West almost imperative. 

 In 1905, Gen. William J. Palmer 

 laid the foundation for -uch a school 

 at Colorado College by presenting the 

 college with a tract <>f 1^,000 acres <'t 

 yellow pine forest near Colorado 

 Springs in the heart of the Rocky 

 Mountain Reserve Region. The tract 

 is known as Manitou Park. It is sur- 

 rounded on three sides bv the Pike 



Manitou Park is under the direct 

 supervision of the School. lagging 

 and milling operation- are now being 

 carried on with a small portable mill, 

 -uch a- is common throughout tin- 

 mountain districts All curing is done 

 according t<> -trictly scientific principle-. 

 with the result that there i- an abundant 

 y-'ung growth to cover the cut-over 



as. During the pa-t year an experi- 

 ment station ha- been c-tab!i-hed in 

 pi-ration with the Fore-t Service for 

 the purpose of studying the effect of 

 different methods of treating mountain 



