152 REPORT OF THE FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



It is now evident that the present need is better facilities for secondary 

 forestry education; an education which will ultimately reach every man who 

 plans to devote his life to work in the woods and has charge of labor, concerned 

 with both the production of the forest and with its harvest. Also a training 

 which will provide the great body of public school pupils and college students 

 with a clear idea of forest economics and the place that forestry occupies in 

 the development of the country. 



Contrasted with the field of technical education of the higher order, the field 

 of secondary forestry education is almost unlimited. This field is now developing 

 with considerable rapidity in this country, but without any definite aim as to the 

 direction that the training should take in its various departments. While technical 

 training of a high order is largely concerned with fundamental principles and 

 their general application, secondary education in forestry is chiefly concerned with 

 empirical methods and their local application. It does not require as a foundation 

 as high an order of general educational attainments. 



American institutions offering secondary forestry education are universities, 

 agricultural colleges, academies, ranger schools and public schools. At present the 

 work is largely conducted under the name of ranger schools and short courses in 

 universities and agricultural colleges. The introduction of secondary forestry 

 education into the public school system of the country has scarcely begun, but 

 the field is particularly inviting, especially as relates to the agricultural high 

 schools of the Middle West. 



American institutions which provide secondary forestry education may be 

 placed in two general classes* : 



1st. Those which offer one to three years' work in forestry, but do not meet 

 the requirements of the Conference of Forest Schools, in the matter of general 

 education or in full technical training. 



2nd. Those which offer ranger courses or short courses in forestry of usually 

 less than a year in length or incorporate some forestry subjects in courses in 

 agriculture and horticulture, or in the arts and sciences. 



The following table shows the character of the course and its approximate 

 length in the ten institutions which fall under the first of these two classes : 



♦These two classes do not include public schools and institutions that confine their 

 training for the most part to tree surgery, management of street and park trees and landscape 



gardening 



