EDUCATION IN FORESTRY. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The Second National Conference on Education in -Forestry was held under 

 the auspices of the School of Forestry of Yale University, at New Haven, Conn., 

 on December 17 and 18, 1920. Its purpose was to discuss the question, To 

 what extent and in what ways is it desirable to revise the standardized curric- 

 ulum of instruction in forestry that for the past 10 years has been more or 

 less closely followed by the leading forest schools of the United States? That 

 curriculum was the outcome of the First National Conference on Education 

 in Forestry, held in December, 1909, when was appointed a committee on 

 standardization of instruction in forestry that published its final report in the 

 Forestry Quarterly for September, 1912 (Vol. X, No. 3). The reasons that led 

 to the conference of 1909 are set forth succinctly by Dean Tourney in his open- 

 ing address (see p. 4). 



The second conference on professional forestry education was called by 

 Dean Tourney, of the Yale School of Forestry, after consultation with other 

 foresters engaged in educational work. Those in attendance represented, per- 

 sonally or by proxy, all the forest schools in the country that offer courses 

 leading to a forestry degree, or that otherwise train men' for the practice of 

 forestry as a profession. There were also present a considerable number of 

 other persons interested in the topics under discussion. 



At the time of calling the conference, 'during the summer of 1920, Dean 

 Tourney named a series of committees, and requested them to be ready to re- 

 port at the conference in December. In the appendix is given a list of these 

 committees and also of those appointed by the conference, with their per- 

 sonnel. The committee reports, followed by discussions, made up the subject 

 matter of the conference. 



Through the courtesy of the United States Commissioner of Education the 

 proceedings of the conference are made of permanent record in this bulletin, 

 the conference having very gladly accepted the commissioner's offer to in- 

 corporate this material in a publication of the Bureau of Education. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



By DB. ABTHUB TWINING HADLEY, President of Yale University. 



It is a great pleasure to welcome you at the opening of this conference on 

 education in forestry. Every convention on technical education, and in fact on 

 education of every kind to-day, has an inestimable value, a value different from 



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