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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



for the purchase of land. Early in 

 April a tract of 90 acres, made up of 

 two small farms and their buildings, 

 and lying just beyond the south boun- 

 dary of the city on one of the main 

 trolley lines, was purchased and is 

 known as "The Forest Experiment 

 Station of the New York State College 

 of Forestry." The land was selected 

 because of accessibility from the city 

 and the University; because of great 

 diversity of soil conditions and because 

 of a living stream of water which can 

 be made easily available over the entire 

 tract. Some 30 acres is covered with 

 woodlot made up largely of maple, oak, 

 hickory and other hardwoods, but con- 

 taining an unusual amount of volunteer 

 seedling growth of pine, hemlock and 

 arbervitas. During the present spring 

 over 450,000 seedlings of conifers will 

 be put into transplant beds for use in 

 experimental work in reforestation of 

 was^e lands. A hundred seed beds will 

 be planted with seed of a large number 

 of species, but mostly of conifers. 

 Several lines of experimental work are 

 being organized, some of which will be 

 carried on in co-operation with the 

 State Conservation Commission, the 

 Department of Forestry of the State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell and 

 with other forest interests of the State. 



PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN FORESTRY 



A four-year technical course leading 

 to a degree of Bachelor of Science in 

 Forestry will be given. Upon comple- 

 tion of a fifth year in the College and 

 a period of satisfactory practice, the 

 graduates of this College will be granted 

 the degree of Master of Forestry. For 

 graduates of Syracuse University or 

 other institutions of similar rank, whose 

 undergraduate work has not had special 

 reference to technical forestry, two 

 years of work in the College will be 

 required for the Master's degree. 



THE RANGER SCHOOL 



.'he increasing demand for men 

 trained in the woods and understanding 

 the elementary principles of Forestry 

 has led the college to establish a ranger 



school to be known as the "New York 

 State Ranger School." An intensely 

 practical course of two years will be 

 given, which it is believed will prepare 

 men in a splendid way for work as 

 forest rangers, forest guards, forest 

 estate managers, nursery foremen and 

 tree planting experts. Two thousand 

 acres lying along Cranberry Lake in the 

 Adirondacks has been offered to the 

 College for its Ranger School and it is 

 planned to give nearly all the work of 

 the School in the woods. During a 

 portion of each year, instructors will 

 be at the School to give work in Mathe- 

 matics and Engineering, Botany, Soils 

 and Geology, Zoology and Entomology 

 and related lines. Practical woodsmen 

 and lumbermen will be brought in for 

 special instruction. It will be the con- 

 stant aim of the College to turn out 

 men from the Ranger School who will 

 understand the forests and their care 

 and what they mean to the State, and 

 who will be as practical in the woods 

 as training of such length can make 

 them. 



WHERE THE COLLEGE WILL WORK. 



For the present, the State College of 

 Forestry is located in the new Natural 

 Science Building of the University, 

 Lyman Hall. Laboratories are being 

 equipped for work in Dendrology and 

 Wood Technology. The Forest Ex- 

 periment Station will be used for in- 

 structional work in Seeding and Plant- 

 ing and Nursery Practice. Some $8,000 

 of the present year's State appropriation 

 for the College will be spent during the 

 coming summer for a range of green- 

 houses and potting and seed storage 

 rooms for winter work in Nursery 

 Practice and for experimental work in 

 Silviculture, Forest Pathology and En- 

 tomology. A Forestrv library for the 

 College has been begun and an effort 

 will be made to make this library un- 

 usually complete and accessible, that it 

 may become especially valuable to those 

 wishing to do research work along any 

 phase of Forestry. A very large room 

 has been assigned the College for a 

 Forestry Museum. Collections will be 

 made to show economic relations and 



