COLORADO SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 



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Students Extracting Seed 

 a part of the work done by the students at the colorado state school of forestry 



solidated into the junior and senior 

 years, an arrangement which affords a 

 stronger and more systematic presen- 

 tation of the whole subject than was 

 possible in the former curriculum in 

 which the forestry subjects were inter- 

 mingled with others throughout the 

 four-year period. This arrangement 

 also enables the Department of Forestry 

 to make full use of its most valuable 

 asset the Manitou Forest. A forest 

 laboratory is the prime requisite of a 

 school of forestry. When the Manitou 

 Forest was given to Colorado College 

 for this purpose Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 then Chief Forester of the United 

 States, made the statement that the 

 Colorado School of Forestry "has in 

 Manitou Park the best out-of-door 

 laboratory for forest experimentation 

 in the country." But under the old 

 program it was impossible to make 

 adequate use of this magnificient tract 

 of woodland. This has now been pro- 

 vided for by dividing both the junior 

 and senior years into three terms fall, 

 winter, and spring and giving the 

 entire work of the fall term and part of 

 the spring term (in the junior year) in 

 the Manitou Forest. 



In the junior year the student enters 

 the Forestry Department. During the 



fall term, from early in September to 

 the last of November, the headquarters 

 of the School are at Camp Colorado in 

 the Manitou Forest. The camp con- 

 sists of a group of buildings and tents 

 that provide ample and comfortable 

 accommodations. Instruction is given 

 by daily lectures, recitations and field 

 work. The juniors spend the first half 

 of the term studying forest mensura- 

 tion. Sawmills in the vicinity provide 

 the opportunity for practice in log- 

 scaling and the making of mill tallies. 

 Measurements are taken of felled and 

 standing trees and the data worked up 

 into volume, growth and yield tables. 



The last halt of the term is spent in 

 forest surveying and timber estimating. 

 After receiving a thorough drill on a 

 number of sample "forties' the class 

 goes on camping trips to different parts 

 of the Pike National Forest, estimating 

 and mapping large bodies of timber. 

 An experienced mountaineer accom- 

 panies the party as cook and teaches 

 each student the arts of camp cooking 

 and packing.'- 



The juniors also begin the study of 

 dendrology in the fall term. By study 

 in the field they become familiar with 

 the different species and forest types of 

 the region. They are also given suffi- 



