DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, UNIVERSITY OF MAINE 27 



taking one or more courses in the Forestry Department. Graduates of the 

 school are in the employ of the United States Forest Service, and in charge of 

 important State and private forestry work. Some of these are alreay em- 

 ploying students during the summer vacation and assisting them in securing 

 permanent positions after graduation. 



OBJECT OF THE CURRICULUM 



The object is to give the student the best possible preparation for his 

 future work, either in actual forest management or in the further pursuit of 

 the subject at one of the graduate schools of forestry. 



The forestry curriculum is not an easy one, and is suitable only for 

 students who have good health and a strong constitution and are moreover 

 able and willing to stand considerable physical as well as mental exertion. 

 It is meant to prepare men for the requirements of the actual work that 

 they will have to do after they have completed their college education, and 

 it is by no means a sanitarium for those who simply desire to lead an out 

 door life. 



Owing to the fact that the timber was stripped from the mountains in its 

 vicinity in so reckless a manner that there is now nothing but a spare second\ 

 growth, a large powder plant of the Dupont Company at Wapwallopen, Penn- 

 sylvania, will be abandoned January 1st, the stripping the timber from the 

 mountains having decreased the water supply so greatly that it is of no further 

 practical service. 



Mr. Albert Lewis, one of the lumber kings of the northeastern section of 

 Pennsylvania, has spent over $100,000 in building beautiful roads through his 

 large lumber tracts in the vicinity of Bear Creek, Pennsylvania. 



Title to about 5,000,000 feet of hemlock and hardwood in the vicinity 

 of Warren, Pennsylvania, has been secured by the Poverty Lumber Company, 

 and in addition is included enough timber to make about 5,000 ties. The tim- 

 ber tract embraces three hundred acres and is located at Brown Run. 



Mr. 8. T. Starrett, of California, has been appointed to fill the new office 

 of Marketing Superintendent for the Hawaiian Territory. Mr. Starrett ha# 

 made a preliminary trip over a considerable portion of the territory and in his 

 report has made a number of valuable suggestions. 



The experiment station at Wagon Wheel Gap, Colorado, established for 

 the purpose of making an exhaustive study of the effect of forests upon climate 

 and streamflow, is now upon a firm basis and a series of experiments has been 

 made during the last eight months. 



"It is generally thought that timber is fast disappearing from the hills 

 and valleys of West Virginia, and in a sense this is true; but there is still 

 plenty of timber in the state" says Charles L. McSuade, of Greenbrier County, 

 West Virginia. "West Virginia now has laws protecting timber and if the 

 laws are enforced it will be many years before the lands are shorn of theii* 

 valuable forests." 



