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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, ipi6 



N.Y., in the Western Adirondacks, 

 where opportunity is provided for de- 

 monstration and field work in survey- 

 ing, mapping, and timber estimating. 

 In this vicinity several large tracts are 

 being lumbered at the present time, and 

 the students are privileged to visit and 

 study the lumber camps and the mills 

 of the pulp and paper companies. 

 Through the generosity of the Rich 

 Lumber Company the school owns and 

 maintains its own forest, consisting of 

 approximately 1,800 acres. Adjoining 

 this on one side is a State forest of vir- 

 gin timber of several thousand acres, 

 which also offers excellent opportuni- 

 ties for the demonstration of the prin- 

 ciples of Forestry, 



For Comfort of Students. 



Good warm buildings are provided 

 for the accommodation of the students. 

 The main building consists of an office, 

 class-room and recreation room on the 

 first floor and dormitories on the sec- 

 ond and third floors. The dining hall 

 is also neat and well equipped. Both 

 buildings are provided with running 

 hot and cold water. Equipment in the 

 way of tools and instruments are fur- 

 nished for demonstration and actual 

 use of the students in surveying, esti- 

 mating and accurate mapping. 



The location of the school on the in- 

 let to Cranberry Lake makes transpor- 

 tation by water often necessary, and 

 for this purpose motor boats and canoes 

 are maintained by the school. 



Lumbermen Co-operate. 



The school does not guarantee posi- 

 tions to its graduates, but all assis- 

 tance possible is given by the school in 

 locating its graduates in positions 

 which oiler opportunity for advance- 

 ment. The school does not furnish a 

 complete education in forestry ; but the 

 courses given will fit a man for general 

 practical forestry work and give him 

 a thorough practical working know- 

 ledge of the subject. The aim is to 

 make the course practical, avoiding so 

 far as possible the purely theoretical 

 part. It is worthy of note that the 

 lumbermen who at one time gave little 

 credit to this work are now much in- 

 terested in it, and are glad to detail 

 special problems in their operations for 



solution by the students of the Ranger 

 School. The practicability of the 

 school is doubtless what appeals to 

 them and explains why its graduates 

 are so satisfactory in the service of 

 these men. 



Lieut. George E. Bothwell Killed 



Lieut. George E. Bothwell of the 

 Forestry Branch of the Department of 

 the Interior, who enlisted in the 51st 

 Battalion of Edmonton, has, according 

 to unofficial reports received, been 

 killed at the front. Mr. Bothwell en- 

 listed as a private and worked his way 

 up to a commission, and crossed to the 

 front in France in the summer of 1916. 

 After the advance of the British forces 

 on the 15th September Mr. Bothwell 

 was officially reported "missing," but 

 no further word could be obtained as 

 to his fate until his father, who lives 

 in Perth. Ontario, received a letter 

 from one of the other officers of his 

 company giving details of what hap- 

 pened. It appears that the British 

 troops had made a victorious advance 

 and captured the enemies' trenches, 

 and that Mr. Bothwell's company had 

 rounded up a number of prisoners who 

 had surrendered in a dug-out. Appar- 

 ently the prisoners had not been fully 

 disarmed, for when Mr. Bothwell's 

 back was turned one of them suddenly 

 drew a revolver and shot him in the 

 back of the head, killing him instantly. 

 It is very regrettable indeed to lose a 

 promising young forester like Mr. 

 Bothwell, and particularly as a result 

 of such a treacherous act. 



Mr. Bothwell was employed at the 

 head office of tjie Forestry Branch for 

 a short time, and while there prepared 

 a bulletin on Co-operative Forest Fire 

 Protection, which described the work 

 of the forest protective associations 

 formed by the lumbermen, particularly 

 in the St. Maurice Valley- He after- 

 wards worked as assistant on the Atha- 

 baska division of the Rocky Mountain 

 Forest Reserve, and gave promise of 

 being a very useful field ofificer. 



