New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.—Four-year courses lending to the degree of bachelor of science. Five-year professional courses leading to the degrees of master of forestry and doctor of economics. Special opportunity is offered in lumbering, pulp and paper making, city forestry, forest entomology and botany, and forest pathology, and for research work at the State Forest Experiment Station.
State College of Washington, Department of Forestry, Pullman, Wash.—Four-year course leading to the degree of bachelor of science in forestry.
University of Washington, College of Forestry, Seattle, Wash.—Four and five year courses, arranged for specialization in general forestry, logging engineering, forest products, and the business of lumbering. At the end of the fourth year the student receives the degree of bachelor of science and at the end of the fifth year of master of science in forestry. Students who wish to specialize should take the five-year course.
Yale University, School of Forestry, New Haven, Conn.—Two-year graduate course leading to the degree of master of forestry. Field work includes 10 weeks at Milford, Pike County, Pa., in the summer term of junior year; three weeks at Union, Conn., and in the Adirondack Mountains in the spring term of junior year, and 12 weeks in the South in the spring term of senior year. Advanced work in dendrology, silviculture, forest management, forest products, and lumbering is open to those who have already had a general course in forestry. Special students are accepted in limited numbers provided their scholastic attainments are such that they can take the work to advantage.
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.