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The main building, constructed of native quartzite, was erected 

 in 1908-1909, at a cost of $30,000.00. On the second floor of this 

 building are comfortable living rooms for all of the students, 

 and for two of the instructors. The whole of the first floor 

 is devoted to class rooms, laboratories, and the library. A part 

 of the basement is also used as a Wood Technology room and 

 contains the collection of wood specimens. There is a complete 

 steam heating equipment and the building is furnished with the 

 necessary toilet rooms and lavatories. 



In 1911 a double cottage, now occupied by the Director and 

 another member of the faculty, was built. Another cottage in 

 the academy group is occupied by the forester stationed upon 

 this reserve. 



The horses of the junior and senior classes are stabled in a 

 well arranged barn. 



Walks and drives have been carefully laid out by a landscape 

 architect, and the buildings are surrounded by spacious lawns 

 which are dotted with many trees and shrubs. 



PURPOSE. 



The purpose of the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy is to 

 prepare thoroughly trained foresters for the service of the State 

 in its forests. The duties of a forester in the employ of the 

 State require a thorough training and apprenticeship in actual 

 woods work, besides the usual school studies in forestry, the 

 sciences, and a number of cultural subjects. The forester must 

 have an equipment covering the surveying and mapping of his 

 forest ; the growing of trees and their proper management 

 from planting, through thinning, to final logging and sawing; 

 the protection of the forest from its arch-enemy, the forest fire, 

 as well as from insects, disease, and trespass ; the building and 

 improvement of the forest roads, trails, fire-lines, telephone 



