Can<tdi(ui Forcslri/ Journal, December, 1917 



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FELLING TREES FOR STEM ANALYSIS 



other part of the equipment. It has 

 taken forestry out of the laboratory 

 and the lecture room and established 

 it where it belongs— in the woods. 

 The building is 16 x 20 feet inside, 

 of peeled spruce and fir logs, chinked 

 with moss. The tar-paper roof has 

 been recently shingled because woods- 

 men tell us that a camp enters into 

 senile decay at the top and not 

 through the rotting of its timbers. 

 The total cost of the camp, including 

 hardware and floor, was not over 

 $25.00, the work being done entirely 

 by the students. So far it has never 

 housed students for a week or two, 

 but its chief use has been as head- 

 quarters for work carried on on Sat- 

 urdays, being within easy walking 

 distance of the University. 



How The Camp is Used 



The work of the fall term of last 

 year may give some idea of the use- 

 fulness of the camp as a center of 

 operations. Juniors were assigned 

 certain 25 acre lots to cruise and make 

 a silvicultural report upon, turning 

 in a topographic and type map of 



these lots plotted to a scale of five 

 chains to the inch. They had asso- 

 ciated with them the lower classmen, 

 five or more men in a party, the 

 Junior directing the work and looking 

 after instruments, etc. Later on in 

 the fall, felling operations started 

 and they were assigned to work in 

 stem analysis of spruce and fir and 

 volume table work on paper birch, 

 following the choppers. If there were 

 not enough trees down, some went 

 to felling and sawing them up into 

 log lengths, others disposing of the 

 brush and slash, until each tree was 

 properly finished. The next Sat- 

 urday, perhaps, yarding started and 

 some were put to scaling logs as they 

 were piled. When snow comes they 

 assist in the preparation of the haul- 

 ing roads and by Christmas have had 

 a chance to learn a variety of things 

 about mensuration and logging. Boys 

 from the city are less expert with the 

 axe and saw and are given special 

 opportunity to learn practical things. 

 They are not kept at one kind of 

 work too long, but long enough to 

 learn how it is done. 



Tree Studies 

 In the spring, after the snow had 



