OREGON FOREST STUDENTS 



SINCE the organization of the 

 Oregon Forest School in 1909, 

 it has been the practice of those 

 in charge to take the students, 

 each spring, for a field trip of about two 

 weeks, into the forests of the Cascade 

 Mountains. Special trips by classes in 

 management, mensuration, logging and 

 silviculture are of course made during 

 the year, but it has been found 

 that taking the whole crowd to the 

 woods tends to produce an 

 esprit de corps which can be 

 created in no other way. 

 The effect of having all the 

 men joined on one piece of 

 work unites them in a very 

 wholseome way. The free- 

 masonry engendered by the 

 camp fire, the cook shanty and 

 the last sack of tobacco is 

 well known to all woodsmen. 



In past years field work has 

 been in the nature of practice 

 work, of value only to the 

 fellow who did it. This year 

 a cooperative arrangement was 

 entered into with the Federal 

 Forest Service to the end that 

 the energies of the seventy 

 embryo foresters and logging 

 engineers who made the trip 

 should produce something of 

 permanent value. Supervisor 

 Brundage of the Santiam Na- 

 tional Forest had a reconnais- 

 sance project which, through 

 lack of funds, had not been 

 completed. Mr. Brundage had 

 work to do and the Forest 

 School had the men to do the 

 work. With these very simple 

 fundamentals a working agree- 

 ment was made which pro- 

 duced eminently satisfactory 

 results. 



The Forest School men went 

 by train to the little logging 

 town of Detroit, and from there 

 packed their blankets 12 miles 

 by a rough mountain trail to 

 the camp site on the Breiten- 

 bush River. The Breitenbush, 



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which rolls "white water" nearly its 

 entire course, is a picturesque mountain 

 torrent. With the stately Douglas firs, 

 towering 200 feet and more above them, 

 and with a dozen sulphur hot springs 

 gushing boiling water near them, the 

 foresters had an ideal location for their 

 headquarters camp. 



The area which was to be cruised had 

 never been surveyed, so the Forest 

 Service officials have run control lines 



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