20 OUR NATIONAL FORESTS 



Service and in 1907 the change of name from "For- 

 est Reserves" to "National Forests" was made to 

 correct the impression that the forests were like 

 reserves which had been withdrawn from use. 



Early Forestry Education and Literature. The 

 Act of February 1, 1905, was the final step which 

 established the federal policy with regard to our 

 National Forests. At this stage it will be interest- 

 ing to note briefly the status of the science of Amer- 

 ican Forestry and of forestry education. As late 

 as the spring of 1898 there was no science or liter- 

 ature on American Forestry, nor could education 

 in the subject be procured in the country. But 

 soon thereafter several forestry schools were estab- 

 lished, namely, Cornell Forestry School in 1898, 

 Yale School of Forestry and Biltmore Forest 

 School in 1899, and the University of Michigan 

 Forestry School in 1903. The beginning of the 

 twentieth century saw the first professional forest- 

 ers graduated and taking upon themselves the task 

 of applying scientific forestry methods to the Na- 

 tional Forests. Further evidence of the growth of 

 the profession of forestry was the organization of 

 the Society of American Foresters in 1900. The 

 first professional journal was started in 1902 as the 



