Canadian Forestry Journal^ December, ipi6 



851 



The teachings of the class room are supplemented by actual field practice. In this nursery the stock 

 is grown for planting on the College Forest. Approximately 50,000 young trees are planted annually by 

 the Students. 



the various positions with large lumber 

 companies and pulp and paper concerns 

 as timber cruisers an din map making 

 and surveying. 



No man can be a good forester in the 

 broadest sense of the term who cannot 

 take care of himself in the woods, and 

 as a large part of the regular instruc- 

 tion of the School, field trips, and ex- 

 cursions are planned to enable the men 

 to develop all that is possible of inge- 

 nuity and responsibility in providing 

 proper food and accommodations for 

 themselves when at considerable dis- 

 tance from their base of supplies. But 

 this field work is in no sense a vacation. 

 It is just as essential as the instruction 

 in the class-room and frequently is of 

 several weeks' duration. 



Any young man of good moral char- 

 acter and in sound physical condition 

 over nineteen years of age is eligible for 

 admission to the School. Every effort 

 is made to exclude from the School all 

 those whose tendencies or characteris- 

 tics would retard their development or 

 would injure the well-being of the stu- 



dent body. Every student is taken 

 on probation for one month, since it 

 has been proven unwise to carry a stu- 

 dents whose inclinations and ambitions 

 are not in accord with the School. It 

 is obviously unfair to a young man to 

 continue him in the school work when 

 it is clearly proven that the profession 

 holds nothing for him. 



A Short Course in Forestry. 



Although several of the larger uni- 

 versities have graduated men as profes- 

 sional foresters, there is yet quite a 

 field between the lumbermen and the 

 professional foresters, and it is this field 

 that the Ranger School is endeavoring 

 to fill. .Many of the young men of this 

 and neighboring states could not see 

 their way clear to enter the regular 

 university four-year course, nor could 

 they obtain the help they needed from 

 text-books or treatises on the subject, 

 and this class of young men have been 

 very eager to secure the benefits of this 

 short course in Forestry. 



The school is located at Wanakena, 



