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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



as the hours passed and the wind 

 slowly died down, we saw with growing 

 relief our rescue had been successful 

 although the mighty force of the on- 

 coming logs was shown by the fringe 

 of sticks driven high and dry upon the 

 beach. 



All the long afternoon we hung and 

 held, and all the afternoon one by one 

 the scattered logs drifted or were 

 gathered in by our small convoy, 

 until under the storm clouds the great 

 red sun shone forth, and the warring 

 elements in nature grew still at his 

 completed course. Peacefully and 

 warmly shone the last fire of the 

 crimson West in spots of gold upon 

 the mirrored surface between the logs, 

 and at last the great boat let the hawser 

 drop in the black water and made a 



final circle around the logsTwith the 

 boom; lanterns flitted along the shore 

 like will-o'-the-wisps as the crew made 

 fast, and as the last knot was tied, and 

 the last man clambered on deck; 

 bitterns croaked, the lone owl hooted, 

 and the faint far away cry of the loon 

 came over the lake. The laugh of the 

 tired crew had a genuine ring of satis- 

 faction in it as they assembled before 

 the warm furnace to talk it all over and 

 turn in, and another unrecorded in- 

 cident that goes to make the character 

 of the passing American woodsman 

 was closed, as the stoker went back to 

 the grateful heat of his corner in the 

 boiler room, and the Captain muttering 

 slowly dragged himself aloft into the 

 cold pilot house. 



GEORGIA STATE FOREST SCHOOL 



r ~"\ ^HE Georgia State College of 

 Agriculture, through its Forest 



X School, offers a four year course 

 in professional forestry leading 

 to the degree of Bachelor of Science in 

 Forestry. Forestry is introduced dur- 

 ing the Freshman year and practical 

 field work follows both the Freshman 

 and Sophomore years. During the 

 Junior and Senior years provision is 

 made for specialization along one of 

 half a dozen different lines of forest 

 activity. To the man desiring city 

 work there is offered a combination of 

 forestry and landscape gardening, pro- 

 viding the preparation necessary to fill 

 the position of city forester. In the 

 same way provision is made for speciali- 

 zation in Logging Engineering, Busi- 

 ness Administration, Dendropathology, 

 Forest Management, State Forestry and 

 Forest Research. 



The Summer Camp of the Forest 

 School is conducted as an additional 

 term of the Freshman and Sophomore 

 years of the forestry course. The work 

 is of a practical nature so that the 

 students may secure the more perfect 

 correlation of class-room theory and the 

 actual operations in the woods. 



For the first time, it has been decided 

 to extend the privileges of Summer 



Camp to persons other than those 

 matriculated in the University. It is 

 the object of the School to reach and 

 benefit in this way three other classes 

 of nature students; first, those men 

 who contemplate a course in forestry 

 but prefer a summer of "woods" work 

 in order to satisfy themselves that their 

 decision is right; second, those teachers, 

 and prospective teachers, of "nature 

 study" who desire further preparation; 

 and third, that great group of men and 

 women who love nature and desire to 

 learn more of her. 



The State Forest School is in charge 

 of Prof. J. B. Berry. 



The forestry movement in the South 

 has been rather slow but the fact that 

 prominent men and women of the 

 State are losing no opportunity to 

 voice forestry sentiments in public is a 

 good indication that thinking people 

 are awaking to the dangers of deforesta- 

 tion. Needless to say the movement, 

 once started, will sweep the state in 

 the same way in which it has taken 

 many Northern States. In fact, a 

 movement is on foot to introduce a 

 forestry bill at the coming session of the 

 legislature and it is to be expected that 

 provision will be made for machinery to 

 enforce forest legislation. 



