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professional schools. In forestry, scores of 

 foremen, guards and rangers are necessary 

 for every professionally trained forester. 

 Where one man trained in the science of 

 forestry will find a position suitable to his 

 attainments, many men vocationally trained 

 in the local art will find work. 



A hard and fast line can not be drawn 

 in this country between these two classes of 

 schools, although, in the main, there has 

 been an abnormal development of the pro- 

 fessional schools and an underdevelopment 

 of the vocational schools. The reason for 

 this one-sided development of forestry edu- 

 cation in the United States is found in the 

 demand for professionally trained men in 

 the decade between 1902 and 1912, which 

 is the period during which nearly all the 

 professional schools were established. The 

 transfer of the national forests to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture in 1904 and their 

 organization under the Forest Service 

 created positions for a large number of 

 trained men. During the same period a 

 rapidly increasing demand for profession- 

 ally trained foresters was created through 

 the establishment of departments of for- 

 estry in many states. All of these posi- 

 tions, with the possibility of rapid pro- 

 motion, were highly attractive to college 

 men. How rapidly the educational ma- 

 chinery of the country responded to this 

 demand for technical training is shown 

 in the number of schools now offering de- 

 grees in forestry and the facilities for tech- 

 nical training that are in the process of 

 development. 



The following is a list of the institutions 

 in the United States that offer technical 

 courses in forestry leading to a collegiate 

 degree. This list shows the number of de- 

 grees granted by each institution prior to 

 December, 1915, and the number of gradu- 

 ates actually employed in the profession in 

 April of the same year. 



No. of gradu- 



No. or degrees ates engaged 



granted prior in forestry. 



Institution toDec., 1915 Apr., 1915 



Colorado College School of 



Forestry 10 F.E. 



Colorado Agricultural Col- 1 M.F. 8 



lege 



Cornell University 4 B.S.F 3 



17 F.E. 

 16 B.S.F. 

 11 M.F. 35 



University of California . . 

 Georgia State College of 



Agriculture 3 B.S.F. — 



Harvard University 53 M.F. 50 



University of Idaho 8 B.S.F. 



1 M.F. 5 



Iowa State College 37 B.S.F. 25 



University of Maine 50 B.S.F. 30 



Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege 97 B.S.F. 48 



University of Michigan ... 103 M.S.F. 71 

 University of Minnesota ... 83 B.S.F. 



1 M.S. 63 



University of Missouri .... 6 B.S.F. 2 



University of Montana .... 1 B.S. — 



University of Nebraska ... 60 B.S.F. 



1 M.F. 46 



Ohio State University 80 B.S.F. 47 



Oregon Agricultural College. 28 B.S.F. 16 

 Pennsylvania State College. 106 B.S.F. 68 



Syracuse University 31 B.S.F. 



4 M.F. 11 

 State College of Washing- 

 ton 2B.S.F. — 



University of Washington. . 23 B.S.F. 



8 M.S.F. 22 



Yale University 340 M.F. 253 



Totals TJ5M 803 



In the space of fifteen years 1,185 men 

 have teen granted degrees in forestry in 

 the United States. About one half of the 

 degrees granted have been undergraduate 

 degrees given for four years of collegiate 

 work. Advanced degrees in forestry are 

 offered by ten institutions. These schools 

 have large faculties of more mature and 

 experienced instructors and are better 

 equipped for instruction in both the sci- 

 ence and art of forestry. 



In April, 1915, out of 1,037 men who had 

 then received degrees, 803 were reported 

 as actually engaged in forestry. The tre- 

 mendous influence of the United States 

 Forest Service in shaping forestry educa- 

 tion in this country is shown in the fact 

 that from 1899 to 1915 there were 591 

 forest assistants appointed to that service 



