Schools With Short Courses in Forestry Other Than Ranger Courses
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala.—An elementary course in forestry covering seven weeks is given to senior students in the agricultural course. The work comprises a study of forest conditions in Alabama, care of woodlands, uses of the different southern woods, methods of preservation, etc.
Berea College, Berea, Ky.—A short course in the fundamental principles of forestry is given as part of the course in agriculture.
University of California, Berkeley, Cal.—Nonprofessional instruction in general forestry is given throughout the regular college year by means of two courses open to any student in the university.
University of Chicago, Ill.—The department of botany offers a course in forest ecology, dealing mainly with the life, activities, and death of trees; the structure and rôle of their various organs; and their relation to climate, soil, and their organic environment. Forest succession and its causes and the great forest formations of the United States and Canada are also taken up.
Clemson Agricultural College, Clemson, S. C.—A course in general forestry is required of all students in the agricultural course during the latter part of junior year.
Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn.—A course in wood lot forestry covering one semester is required of all students in the regular four-year courses. The course is designed to give the student a working knowledge of the best methods of handling the farm wood lot with special reference to Connecticut conditions. The field work covers the identification of the economic species, measurement of growth and yield, improvement cuttings, and reforestation. A similar but less comprehensive course covering one semester is required of all students in the two-year course in the School of Agriculture.
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.—Five elementary courses are offered for agricultural and other students in the university covering the farm wood lot, elements of forestry silviculture, mensuration, management, utilization, and conservation. Two other courses, the field of forestry and wood technology, are open to both general and professional students. General courses in forestry are also given in the summer school and in the short-term winter course.
Delaware College, Newark, Del.—An elementary course covering one semester is elective for juniors and seniors in agriculture. It deals with the elements of silvics, methods of silvicultural management, natural and artificial regeneration, forest protection, forest mensuration, wood utilization, lumbering, wood preservation, forest economics, forest finance, and a study of the characteristic lumber trees of the United States, their classification and identification.
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.—A short course in farm forestry is required of seniors in agriculture, and an elementary course in wood lot forestry of one-year men in agriculture. A nature study during the summer, open to teachers, a vocational course in wood and its uses, and a correspondence course in farm forestry are also offered.
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.—A course in general forestry is offered for students in the various departments of the university, and a short course in farm forestry for students in the College of Agriculture.
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames, Iowa.—A course in farm forestry designed to meet the needs of the Iowa farmer is required of practically all agricultural students during their first year. It includes a discussion of windbreaks, shelter belts, and wood lots with respect to their value on the farm, and also a little work on dendrology, forest planting, silviculture, preservative treatment of timbers, and the utilization of forest products.
Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans.—Courses in farm forestry, silviculture, and dendrology are elective for all students in agricultural and general science courses during the winter term of junior year. A course in forest nursery practice is elective for students in the School of Agriculture during the spring term of the third year, and also, without credit, for all students in college courses in agriculture and general science.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.—A year’s course in general forestry is required of juniors in the teachers’ course in agriculture, and additional courses of one year each in forestry and in the propagation and care of ornamental and shade trees are elective for seniors. Courses in forestry covering two years and a course in the propagation and care of ornamental and shade trees covering one year are elective for juniors and seniors in the College of Agriculture. The aim is not to turn out trained foresters, but to teach forestry in connection with the agricultural courses, with special reference to the management of farm wood lots.
University of Maine, Orono, Me.—A course in general forestry is open to all students, and is required of all students in the College of Agriculture.
Maryland Agricultural College, College Park, Md.—A course in farm forestry comprising 20 lectures and 60 hours of demonstration work is given to seniors in agriculture and horticulture, and to the second-year men of the two-year courses in agriculture and horticulture. The course includes wood lot management, nursery practice, planting, forest botany, and estimating timber crops.
Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.—An elective major course is offered in the department of forestry during junior and senior years, which takes up such studies as dendrology, silviculture, forest mensuration, and allied subjects. During the winter several lectures are given by the State forester on “State Forest Policy.” The course is intended to give the students the same kind of education regarding true forest land that they receive concerning tillable land, and also to prepare students for the graduate schools of forestry. A lecture course dealing especially with wood lot management is offered to students of the short winter and summer schools.
University of Minnesota, Northwest School and Station, Crookston, Minn.—An elementary course in forestry is offered dealing with the planting of windbreaks and wood lots, the characteristics and adaptability of the more common trees, and the methods of propagation and conservation of planted and natural forests.
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Agricultural College, Miss.—Courses in farm forestry and dendrology of one term each are offered for students in agriculture.
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.—A summer school of forestry for lumbermen, timberland owners, and rangers is given on the university forest of 50,000 acres in the Ozark Mountains, in connection with the summer course for regular forestry students.
University of Montana, Missoula, Mont.—Special courses in surveying, scaling and cruising, lumbering, forest appraisal, and logging engineering are offered in connection with the short course for rangers.
Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass.—An elementary course in the care of lawns, shrubbery, and forests is given during one term.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr.—A course in farm forestry covering one semester is elective for all students of the university and is designed primarily for agricultural students. It is an elementary course designed to familiarize students with the best trees that will grow in the State of Nebraska, as well as the methods of handling the farm wood lot.
New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H.—Courses in forestry are required of all four-year and two-year agricultural students, and are elective for all students of the college. Beginning with junior year, four-year students in agriculture may elect forestry as a principal subject and are then given advanced forestry work together with other agricultural and associated subjects. Every encouragement and assistance is given a student desiring to make forestry his profession, with the understanding that he will complete his training at some school offering a complete course in forestry.
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, West Raleigh, N. C.—A course in forestry is offered as one of the senior horticultural electives.
North Dakota Agricultural College, Agricultural College, N. Dak.—An elementary course in forestry covering six weeks is offered in the third term of junior year in the four-year agricultural course.
North Dakota State School of Forestry, Bottineau, N. Dak.—Instruction similar to that in the agricultural high schools is offered with special attention to horticulture and forestry. The forestry work consists of a study of the plains and prairie regions and has to do particularly with windbreaks, shelter belts, etc. A special three-year course is also offered for the preparation of landscape gardeners, landscape engineers, and city foresters.
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater, Okla.—A course in elementary forestry is required of all horticulture students during the first term of junior year.
Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.—The work in forestry consists of a line of electives within the school of science. The subjects covered are forest botany and dendrology, elements of silviculture, forest mensuration, forest management, forest protection, forest utilization, forest pathology, and technical forestry. The latter includes a study of structural timbers with demonstrations in the testing laboratories and also work in surveying and making forest maps.
Rhode Island State College, Kingston, R. I.—A course in forestry dealing with the management of New England wood lots is required in the second term, junior year, in the agricultural course.
South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Brookings, S. Dak.—A course in forestry is required in the second semester of the sophomore year in the horticultural group and in the third-year of the three-year school of agriculture. It is elective in the second semester, junior year, in the animal husbandry and dairy husbandry groups of the four-year collegiate agricultural course.
Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University, Cal.—Courses are offered in the study of trees, forest pathology, and other matters basal to the study of forestry.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.—A field course in elementary forestry, forest ecology, and botany, soils, geology, and woodcraft, open to any man over 15, is given by the New York State College of Forestry during August at Cranberry Lake in the western Adirondacks. Courses in forestry are also given for students in the university outside of the College of Forestry, and especially for those desiring to teach.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.—An elective course in forestry covering one term is offered in the senior year of the four-year agricultural course. The work deals chiefly with the management of farm wood lots and small holdings of hardwood timber.
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Tex.—Courses in the principles of forestry, dendrology, silviculture (with special reference to planting), and wood technology and utilization, each covering one semester and elective for juniors and seniors in agriculture and science, offered in the college year 1916-17. No attempt will be made to equip students for the profession of forestry. From time to time, however, additional courses will be offered to meet the needs of students along farm forestry, planting, timber preservation, and other lines.
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.—Students in agriculture are required to take one course in forestry during their sophomore year. The aim of this course is to give all agricultural students a working knowledge of forestry, which can be applied to their own farms or in the teaching of agriculture. The more advanced courses are open to those who wish to pursue the subject further.
State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash.—A one-year practical course is offered in the elementary science department, planned to equip young men to become logging engineers.
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.—Two courses of 12 weeks each are offered—one in lumber and its uses for men engaged in offices at the mills, lumber salesmen, engineers, contractors, and builders; the other in logging for the training of logging foremen or others engaged in work at logging camps.
Winona College of Agriculture, Winona Lake, Ind.—A course of one-half semester in the principles of forestry is offered in the two-year agricultural course. The growing of trees for fences and the preservative treatment of fence posts are taken up in a practical way, and some work is also offered on lumber and its use on the farm.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.—Nine elective courses, each running through one semester, as well as a number of special lectures in various departments of the university, are given by members of the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Forest Service, where opportunity for research work is also offered. The object of the work, which is open to both undergraduates and graduates, is to enable men to acquire a thorough scientific and practical training in organic chemistry and wood technology and to apply this knowledge in scientific and commercial operations and investigations in the wood-using industries and in teaching.
Wyman’s School of Woods, Manising, Mich.—A 24-months’ course in forestry, logging, and woodcraft is offered, on the satisfactory completion of which students are granted a certificate of efficiency in logging and engineering. A 10-weeks’ out-of-door summer course is also offered to afford those students who are contemplating forestry as a profession an opportunity to become familiar with the character of the work.
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.—An elementary course of eight weeks is offered during the summer at Milford, Pike County, Pa., for those who desire a general knowledge of the subject.