programs and organizations after 

 World War II. I found no figure on 

 their prewar employment of 

 professional foresters, but in 1960 

 they employed a total of 492 

 professional foresters (Myers 

 1960). By 1985. the total had 

 increased to 999 (Warren and 

 Wiseman 1985). 



A final factor was the growth of 

 research programs in the schools 

 occasioned by the rapid increase in 

 reforestation and the initiation of 

 large-scale intensive timber- 

 management programs on forest- 

 industry lands and of multiple-use 

 management systems on public 

 forest lands. Cooperatively funded 

 research programs by industry. 

 State forestry organizations, and 

 the schools were begun in the 

 1950's initially in the field of forest 

 genetics and tree improvement. 

 These programs plus the passage 

 of the Mclntire-Stennis 

 Cooperative Forestry Research Act 

 in 1962. which provided Federal 

 funding on a matching basis to the 

 schools for research and graduate 

 training of scientists, led to 

 substantial expansion of graduate 

 programs at the master's and 

 doctoral levels. Duke granted its 

 first Ph.D. in forestry in 1938: 

 North Carolina State did so in 

 1953. Eight of the remaining nine 

 doctoral-level programs in forestry 

 produced graduates from 1964 on. 

 The ninth, at Clemson University, 

 was initiated in 1985. 



As of 1985. there were four 

 doctoral programs in wood science 



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and technology (Duke. Mississippi 

 State. North Carolina State. VPI 

 and SU). one in harvesting (VPI 

 and SU). and one in pulp and 

 paper science (North Carolina 

 State under a "Wood and Paper 

 Science"' designation). 



Unique Professional Degree 

 Programs — A number of past and 

 current programs have been unique 

 in orientation or structure. The 

 following are but a few examples. 



Duke University School of Forestry 

 and Environmental Studies — Duke 

 has been unique for several 

 reasons. It was the only private 

 university in the South with 

 professional forestry and forest- 

 products programs in 1985. It has 

 operated such programs at the 

 graduate level only: the master of 

 forestry degree has been its first 

 professional degree since the 

 teaching program began in 1938. 

 This was a nonthesis master's 

 degree until recently. One year of 

 study was required for persons 

 with a bachelor's degree in forestry 

 and 2 years for those with a 

 bachelor's degree in a science 

 basic to forestry. 



Early in its master of forestry 

 program. Duke worked out a 

 unique 3-2 arrangement with 

 liberal arts colleges and 

 universities not offering forestry. 

 Under this Cooperative College 

 Program, students who followed a 

 coordinated 3-year undergraduate 

 program in one of the natural or 

 social sciences, pre-engineering. 



