The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-29
HANrKD-scHooLS OF FORESTRY.

fact, that a new profession has of late
been opened to American young men. the
Very existence of which remains I'M
known to the great body of the peo-
PIE. It is the profession of forestry.
Ia the rush of material development
century or over in the United States the
work of destruction has gone on in GER
tain directions unknown and undisturb-
ed Conducted as it has been during that
time the numbering industry could only
continue to be pursued at the
cost of the total destruction of our vast
national areas of valuable timber With
in few years public attention has been
directed so generally to this particular
form of commercial vandalism as to re-
suit in a general demand for an effective
remedy.
There is not an acre of American soil
which has been denuded of it's timber
growth for any other than urban agri-
cultural and mining purposes that might
not have been replanted successfully,
producing in brief period growth
commercially as valuable as that which
our timber growth to great
extent as we have treated our
supply of game of all kinds. The
national policy has been as near as pos
sible in both cases one of defamation
The fact that certain well known col
lsges have established schools of fores-
try should be made universally known,
instead of the knowledge of it being con-
fined to a mere handful of persons, most
~ interested in educational advance The
three leading schools of forestry are as
follows: The school at Mr.. Vanderbilts
forests at Bntmore, n. c.; the new York
State College of Forestry, at Cornell
university Ithaca, n. Y. and the Yale
Forest school, Yale university, New Ha-
ven, Conn. In addition to these there
are also schools of forestry at Berea,
Ohio, connected with Berea college and
and at Durham, N. H, connected with
the state university.
1t sounds almost incredible, but it IS
regarded as a fact by those competent
to pass an opinion, that the general alb
sence of such schools is due to the diff
fculty of securing competent instructors
The fOrester's calling is generations old
in many European countries. But with
US it is still practically unknown 1t
private individuals and colleges can be
expected to maintain the principal
schools of forestry in the United States
surely the several states within whose
e area large timber growths exist ought
to be expected to do their duty in that
regard. Should the states of Minnesota
and Wisconsin, for instance, the great
depots for nearly fifty years of the ma
tional supply of pine lumber, be with
out their schools of forestry in con-
nection with their splendidly equipped
state universities? The question answers
itself.
If there were no other incentive to the
establishment of such schools throughout
the land the fact that they would call
into existence the profession of forestry
which might be pursued with the great
est individual and public advantage by
thousands of our young men would fur
nish one.
The management of the state uni
versity of Minnesota Will render a great
public service by applying to the legis-
lature at its next session for the neces-
sary facilities with which to found a
School of forestry in this state.