influx of advanced students who 

 transferred in from the 

 Pennsylvania State Forest 

 Academy at Mont Alto, which was 

 abolished in that year. 

 Consequently, North Carolina 

 State awarded its first forestry 

 degrees in 1930. 



As of 1935, the department was 

 offering four courses of study: 

 forest management, forest 

 utilization, silviculture, and 

 research in forestry problems. All 

 led to the bachelor of science 

 degree. It also offered graduate 

 training for a master of science in 

 forestry degree. Through 1934, it 

 turned out 58 graduates, 49 of 

 whom were ''engaged in forestry 

 or kindred pursuits" (Chapman 

 1935, Saylor 1979). 



Thus around the close of its 

 bonanza lumbering period, the 

 South had seen four programs 

 established to educate professional 

 foresters. One had closed. Three 

 were offering bachelor's level 

 programs in forestry. One of these 

 (after 1930) had initiated a 

 curriculum in forest utilization. 

 Two of the three had started 

 graduate programs at the master's 

 level. 



As of 1930, there were no wood 

 science and technology programs 

 in the South (Ellis 1964). 



No technician-training programs in 

 the South were in operation at the 

 close of the bonanza lumbering 



period. One had operated at the 

 University of Georgia and a second 

 at Louisiana State Univesity for a 

 few years, but both were 

 discontinued in the mid-1920's 

 (Dana and Johnson 1963). 



Cumulative Total Graduates and 

 Placement — Through 1934, the four 

 programs had produced 470 

 graduates (300 from Biltmore). An 

 estimated 300 had entered forestry- 

 related careers. 



Placement information is sketchy. 

 Most of these bonanza-era 

 graduates undoubtedly went to 

 work for public forestry agencies. 

 National records show that out of 

 the 2,000 foresters graduated 

 nationally from 1900 to 1920, only 

 20 were privately employed. In 

 1934, only 220 out of the Society 

 of American Foresters national 

 membership of 2,076 were 

 privately employed. In the South 

 in 1928, the pulp and paper 

 industry employed fewer than 12 

 full-time foresters (Clepper 1971). 



Contribution to the South's 

 Professional Work Force — The 



number of southern forestry 

 program graduates of this era who 

 went to work in the South could 

 not be determined. Thus, the 

 contribution of the southern 

 schools to the South's early 

 professional forestry work force 

 can only be estimated. This 

 contribution was undoubtedly 

 modest because, with the 

 exception of Biltmore, southern 



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