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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
WORK OF NEW YORK FOREST RANGER SCHOOL 
The students of the State Ranger School 
of the New York State College of For- 
estry at Syracuse University, which is held 
on the College Forest of 1,800 acres on 
Cranberry Lake, have been estimating the 
first Ranger School to be organized in 
the East has an important part to play in 
the development of forestry in this coun- 
try. The school plans to give an un- 
usually thorough and practical training of 
ranger, guard or an expert in tree plant- 
ing and forest nursery practice, but not a 
professional forester. These courses are 
not recommended for persons in poor 
health or for those who have little inclina- 
tion for the rough life of the woods. 
Practical field work in silviculture, for- 
est surveying, estimating and mapping, 
forest protection, methods of lumbering, 
etc., will take precedence over classroom 
work in the courses, but theoretical and 
practical instruction will go hand in hand. 
Upon completion of the one or two-year 
courses a certificate will be given by the 
New York State College of Forestry. After 
two years of satisfactory practice, follow- 
ing completion of either of the courses, an 
honorary diploma will be granted. 
BEAN POND ON NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE FOREST AT 
WANAKENA. 
A small pond of spring water surrounded by Black Spruce and Balsam Fir. 
timber on the College Forest. The Ran- 
ger School had its regular opening during 
the first week in February of this year 
and there were fourteen boys there from 
different parts of the state. The men be- 
gan by working on snow shoes, crossing the 
tract every quarter of a mile, gridiron like, 
to determine by accurate measurement just 
how many board feet there are to the acre. 
The work is divided between compass- 
man, caliper-man, who measures the diam- 
eter of the tree and estimates the mer- 
chantable length, and a tally-man. On a 
strip sixty-six feet wide, the length of the 
ordinary surveyor’s chain, every tree above 
four inches is measured with a caliper. 
The compass-man and the tally-man use 
the chain and determine the length of the 
. strip and record each tree as its diameter 
is called out by the caliper-man. It has 
been found that this is the best time of 
the year for estimating timber, as .the 
snow has a smooth crust, which makes 
easy traveling over logs and brush. By 
estimating the. timber in these strips and 
using calipers a very good average of the 
stand per acre and the stand according to 
the different types of forest is secured. 
The students of the school are not only 
taking part in every operation, but are 
making careful reports and getting the ex- 
perience that will help them to become 
efficient guards, rangers, forest estate man- 
agers and tree-planting experts. 
There is a very prevalent feeling among 
both timber owners and foresters that this 
one and two years, fitting men for such 
positions as rangers, guards, tree-planting 
experts, nursery foremen and managers of 
forest estates. Young men who have al- 
ready had some experience in lumbering 
operations or who are well trained in 
woodcraft will find this course a material 
help to them in preparation for the more 
expert quality of service which is de- 
manded by modern methods of handling 
timber holdings. Men who have not been 
able to prepare themselves for college or 
who prepared themselves earlier and then 
did not enter college, will find the two- 
year course a very satisfactory one. It 
will not only prepare them for practical 
woods work, but by receiving more theo- 
retical instruction they will be able to con- 
tinue reading and investigational work 
more effectively. Neither the one nor the 
two-year course is offered as an education 
in forestry. The man who completes the 
courses satisfactorily will be a trained 
The village of Wanakena is well located 
along the west inlet flow of Cranberry 
Lake and on the Ontario division of the 
New York Central Railroad, 140 miles 
north of Syracuse. Cranberry Lake is the 
largest of the many beautiful Adirondack 
lakes. The College Forest covers a belt of 
rolling country over three miles long, 
lying about one-half mile north of Wana- 
kena and having an average elevation of 
1,500 feet. 
Before the opening of the school in Sep- 
tember two rough but permanent build- 
ings will be completed which will accom- 
modate very comfortably from thirty to 
forty men. The main building will have a 
large assembly room, with fireplaces on the 
first floor, as well as two small laboratories 
and an office. The second floor will be a 
dormitory for the students of the school. 
The buildings will be heated with steam 
and lighted with electricity. The second 
building will contain dining-room, kitchen, 
storeroms and dormitory for help. Plans 
are already under way for further build- 
ings. 
There will be a very thorough equip- 
ment of forest instruments such as tran- 
sits, compasses, chains and tapes, calipers 
and other instruments necessary for forest 
work. Further details about the arrange- 
ments for this course in practical forestry 
may be had from Dean Hugh P. Baker, 
of the State College of Forestry, Syracuse, 
N. Y. 
Three Rivers, Mich., is considering a 
plan for a systematic development of the 
city parks. 
A continuing appropriation of $600,000 
for improving Crater Lake National Park, 
by building roads, boulevards, etc., has been 
asked for by the Klamath, Ore., Chamber 
of Commerce. 
The New York Supreme Court has con- 
firmed the award of $1,250,000 made to 
the Neponsit Company for the land taken 
by the city at the westerly end of the 
