Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-31
UNCLE SAM TEACHES FORESTRY
Sixty Students Under Government In
struction During Last Summer.

struction During Last Summer.
Sixty stalwart students have taken
up forestry as a profession under the
instruction of the division OF forestry
of the department of agriculture.
They have been at work in the forests
of various states during the last sum-
mer, under the supervision OF trained
foresters, with results of marked value
to the division, chiefly in the prepara-
ton of working plans and the study
of commercial trees. The students,
while living in the lumber camps, get
a certain amount of fishing and hunt
ing, but the line between work and
play is closely drawn. All expenses
are betrayed by the government while
the men are in the field. During the
summer work has been done IN the
Adirondacks, the state of Washington
and Maine. The ultimate object is to
prepare the students for service IN
the forestry division of the United
/ States government.
Aside from the demand created for
trained foresters by the newly
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ment of agriculture i'll stopping the
destruction Of the forests OF the
| United States, the call for experts IN
the profession is comparatively light,
but is increasing with marked rapidity
While the government very much
wishes the services of those who have
eni0yed instruction under it, this is
not imperative. Great numbering con-
Germs. such as the International Paper
comnany. which controls more than
100 .OOO. 900 acres of spruce land; min
ing companies, owners of game parks,
as we'll as private owners OF great
areas such as Biltmore forest, in
North Carolina, the property Of
George w. Vanderbilt; the Ne-Ha-Sa-
Ne-Park in the Adirondacks, owned by
w. Seward Webb, and the adjoining
land held by William G. Whitney,
along with the forest interests of a
number CT states, all need trained
foresters. The government already
employs a number of men, and will in
the near future extend the work in
such a manner as to require large
increase in the staff of experts.
| Clifford Pinchot, the government
! forester, says that trained foresters
/ receive r. the division of forestry
from $1,000 TO $4,000 year. Large
lumber companies pay better, while a
Cruiser" one who estimates the
worth of timber land, receives much
higher pay.
1 During the year considerable work
has been done on private tracts I'M
der advice from the division of for
estry. This was the result of an offer
made in October, 1898, to give advice
and assistance to private owners in
handling their woodlands. Within a
year applications were received from
owners in thirty-fve states, the total
area covered by these applications
being about 100000 acres. The prep
aration of working plans for these
tracts and the supervision of their ex-
ecution is now one of the most import
ant branches of the division of for
eetYy. TIE first large forest put I'M
der systematic management with
definite working plan was that belong
ing to G. w Vanderbilt ct Biltmore,
N. G. The work was organized in 1891
by Clifford Pinchot, now the forester
of the department of agriculture, on
about 1000 acres. Additional tracts
have since been purchased to the ex-