Camp Colorado in the Manitou Forest 



COLORADO SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 



THE Colorado School of Forestry 

 was established as a depart- 

 ment of Colorado College in 

 1905, when General W. J. 

 Palmer and Dr. W. A. Bell gave to the 

 College a tract of 9,500 acres known as 

 Manitou Park, situated in a mountain 

 valley about 25 miles Northwest of 

 Colorado Springs. About 3,200 acres 

 is agricultural land and has been devoted 

 to that purpose, the proceeds being 

 applied toward the endowment of the 

 School. The remainder, now called 

 the Manitou Forest, is timbered and is 

 used for field instruction. The Manitou 

 Forest itself is surrounded on three 

 sides by the Pike National Forest, to 

 which the students have access for the 

 purpose of estimating timber and study- 

 ing the various problems of forest 

 management. 



In addition to these natural advan- 

 tages, the location of the School at 

 Colorado Springs affords to the student 

 the opportunity of studying other 

 important branches of forestry that 

 are being developed by the Forest 

 Service. Eight miles west of the city, 



650 



on the slopes of Pikes Peak, is situated 

 the Fremont Experiment Station, where 

 extensive forest investigations are being 

 conducted. The practical purpose 

 underlying these investigations is to 

 find out how best to reproduce, develop 

 and manage the forests of the Rocky 

 Mountain region. A few miles north 

 is the Monument Nursery, where a 

 million seedlings are grown each year 

 to be set out on the denuded lands in the 

 National Forests. 



The United States Bureau of En- 

 tomology has recently established at 

 Colorado Springs a forest insect station 

 for the study of the insect problem in 

 the Southern Rocky Mountains. An 

 insectary will be maintained in connec- 

 tion with it for the breeding of the 

 insect-enemies of the tree-killing species. 

 The location of this station at Colorado 

 Springs will be of great advantage to 

 the forestry students in their study of 

 forest entomology. 



The forestry curriculum was thorough- 

 ly revised in 1912 and a larger amount 

 of practical field work introduced. All 

 the forestry courses proper were eon- 



