WYMAN'S SCHOOL OF THE WOODS 



BY THOS. B. WYMAN 



GO train young men in forestry, as it is actually practiced; lumbering, 

 as done bv successful operators; milling, of hardwoods and softwoods, 

 and the woodcraft necessary to properly accomplish forest work, 

 Wyman's School of the Woods was organized at Munising, Michigan, July 1st, 

 1909. Munising is on the south shore of Lake Superior about midway, east 

 and west, of the upper peninsula, and is recognized as having more contributing 

 timber resources than any city in the State of Michigan. 



Large corporations have undertaken reforestation and arrangements have 

 been made to employ the students in this work and in the nursery work 

 auxiliary to it. 



Organized forest protection is carried on in these forests as is also 

 cruising and estimating, woods, surveying, mapping, scaling, compass work, 

 camping, etc., in all of which students are drilled by force of requirements. 



The only endowment of the school is this huge forest; an endowment of 

 such worth that it can not be over estimated in its influence upon forest 

 education. 



In addition, the school maintains comfortable quarters at Munising for 

 the theoretical lecture work, draughting, mapping, etc. 



A library of several hundred technical and practical works, a reading 

 table to which come the scientific magazines, trade papers and out-of-door 

 periodicals, and fully equipped lecture rooms and draughting rooms offer 

 opportunities for study and practice. All of the best instruments used in 

 forest work are owned and used by the school. 



The great lecture room, the great laboratory, the great library, the great 

 store-house of forest knowledge, is the forest; and in it the students spend 

 every moment possible, for new points are always arising which can best be 

 explained by practical demonstration. 



The courses at Wyman's School of the Woods are broad in gauge and are 

 designed to cover the full field of forestry in twenty-four months of actual 

 attendance. Upon satisfactorily completing both the theoretical and practical 

 work students are granted a certificate of efficiency in logging engineering. 

 The course is designed in such a manner that students who are unable to 

 take more than a single year of study should be qualified for positions as 

 rangers, compassmen, etc., at salaries commensurate with the duties and re- 

 sponsibilities of the position. 



The full courses are open to graduates of approved high schools and others 

 of business training whose qualifications are satisfactory to the directorate. 

 All subjects are arranged in sequence and as closely to season as possible. 

 Hence, students are allowed to enter at the beginning of any subject. 



A summer course, covering ten weeks, is also offered. This course is to 

 offer to those students who are ''thinking of forestry" an opportunity to 

 learn, by contact with the forest, the nature of advanced study and of actual 

 work. No special qualifications are required for entry to this course. It is 

 purely an out-of-door training school and the entire time is spent in camp. 



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