business, natural resources, or 

 environmental science entered 

 Duke's School of Forestry and 

 Environmental Studies at the 

 beginning of the fourth year. Upon 

 satisfactory completion of this 

 fourth year, the student received 

 the bachelor's degree from the 

 undergraduate institution: at the 

 end of the fifth year, the master of 

 forestry degree from Duke. (A 

 similar arrangement is currently 

 offered leading to a master of 

 environmental management 

 degree.) (Smith 1984). 



As early as 1959. this 3-2 

 relationship had been established 

 with 62 colleges and universities 

 (Korstian 1969). By 1985. 90 

 institutions were partners with 

 Duke in this arrangement (Jayne. 

 personal communication). 



This program has produced 

 students with an unusual diversity 

 of backgrounds. 



Forest Business Programs — In 1960. 

 Duke was one of the first schools 

 to develop a structured degree 

 program in the business aspects of 

 forestry. This program leads to the 

 degree of master of business 

 administration in forestry. This 

 was a joint program of the then 

 School of Forestry and the 

 Department of Economics and 

 Business Administration. It 

 featured three semesters of 

 coursework at Duke followed by a 

 6-month internship with one of 14 

 or 15 cooperating forest-industry 

 companies, which paid full salaries 



to the students while in intern 

 status. 



Some 25 to 30 students completed 

 this program during the 1960's. All 

 were offered positions by the 

 companies in which they were 

 interns. Most started in company 

 regional offices as woodlands 

 economic analysts. A number 

 became woodlands division 

 managers: some went on into 

 corporate internal auditing 

 departments: four to five rose to be 

 corporate vice presidents, or 

 corporate vice presidents for 

 woodlands (Yoho. personal 

 communication). 



The program was discontinued 

 when its founder. James Yoho. left 

 to take a position with the forest 

 industry. But other schools have 

 since gotten into the field of forest 

 business education. In 1977. the 

 University of Tennessee began 

 offering a master of business 

 administration with a concentration 

 in forest industries management to 

 people with bachelor's degrees in 

 forestry. In 1983. the University of 

 Georgia began offering a master of 

 forest resources-forest business 

 management degree. Arkansas. 

 Clemson. Louisiana State, and 

 others have offered options in 

 forest business within the 

 undergraduate forestry major. At 

 Mississippi State, North Carolina 

 State, and elsewhere, 

 undergraduate programs have been 

 developed in w hich the forestry 

 graduate can earn a second 

 bachelor's degree in business or 



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