Table 3 — Proportion of southern members of the 

 Society of American Foresters who received the first 

 professional forestry degree from a southern school 







Year 





Proportion of 









southern members 



1929 



1962 



1985 



Total number of 









southern members 



148 



3.502 



4.803 



Type of sample taken 



100% 



2.59c 



2% 



Total names in 



148 



109 



83 



sample 









Total records found 



34 



69 



73 



Total records showing 









a professional 









forestry degree 



31 



56 



44 



Total records showing 









the first 









professional 









forestry degree 









from a southern 









school 



1 



34 



30 



Percentage of 









professional 









forestry degree 









holders with the 









first such degree 









from a southern 









school 



3.2 



60.7 



68.2 



Foresters and of State rosters of 

 registered foresters in Alabama, 

 Mississippi, and North and South 

 Carolina. Results are listed in table 

 4. These show consistently higher 

 proportions of practitioners with 

 southern educational backgrounds 

 than the 1985 Society of American 

 Foresters sample. 



In terms of persons trained at the 

 doctoral level for potential careers 

 in research and teaching, the 

 southern institutions with 



professional forestry programs 

 have graduated an estimated 577 

 since Duke first began in 1938. 

 Most of these degrees have been in 

 forestry rather than forest-products 

 specialties. 



No effort was made to estimate 

 what proportion of these graduates 

 entered careers in the South. 



No estimate was made of the 

 number of persons trained at the 

 master's level because of the 



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