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The era of professional forest schools, however, was inau^rated 

 in 1898, when the New York State College of Forestry was organized 

 at Cornell University, and when the private school at Biltmore was 

 opened by Dr. Schenck, on the estate of W. K. Vanderbilt. A year 

 later, another forest school was opened at Yale University, an endow- 

 ment of the Pinchots. In 1903, the University of Michigan added a 

 professional department of forestry; and then followed a real flood 

 of educational enthusiasm, one institution after another adding 

 courses in forestry/^ 



FORESTRY JOURNALS AND FORESTRY SOCIETIES 



Two new forestry journals appeared: the Forestry Quarterly, 

 launched in 1902 by Dr. Fernow, and the New Jersey Forester, 

 started by Dr. John Gifford in 1895. The latter publication soon 

 changed its name to The Forester, and three years later was taken 

 over by the American Forestry Association, continued as Forestry 

 and Irrigation, later as Conservation, and still later as American 

 Forestry.^^ 



In 1901, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests 

 was organized, and this society exerted a considerable influence in 

 New England during the following years. In the same year, the 

 Canadian Forestry Association held its first annual meeting in 

 Ottawa. During the next decade, a number of associations were 

 formed: the Iowa Park and Forest Association, the Nebraska Con- 

 servation and State Development Congress, the Paducah (Kentucky) 

 Forest Association, the Southern Conservation Congress; and other 

 forestry associations in Maine, West Virginia, North Carolina, 

 Georgia, and Louisiana. In 1908, the National Conservation League 

 was organized, with Walter L. Fisher as president, Theodore Roose- 

 velt as honorary president, and William Taft and W. J. Bryan as 

 honorary vice-presidents. In the same year, the Woman's National 

 Rivers and Harbors Congress was organized in Shreveport, Louisi- 

 ana, one of the objects being the conservation of forests; and the 

 following year, the National Conservation Association was organized, 



15 Fernow, "History of Forestry," 433. 



16 Ibid., 432. 



