The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
HOW TO BECOME FoREsTERs.
Official Information for Young Men
Who Would Follow the Career.
New York SUM


So many applications have been received
BY the bureau Of forestry IN Washington
for information as 10 the way TO get
training in forestry, and also for infOrma-
ton as to the employment by the bureau
OF young men ambitious in this direction,
that the bureau has issued circular on
the subject.
For those who have had no training N
forestry or those whose training is incOm-
plete the bureau has only one kind Of
work. 1t is that of student assistant
This Is practically the place of helper IN
field work. and it lasts from three to six
months. The wages paid are 50 month
and EXPENSES The men nav their own
way to and from the field. If they are
ordered to Washington at the close OF
the outdoor season to finish up the rOu-
tine work, the bureau pays the expense.
To become a student assistant one must
write TO the United States forester, de-
partment of agriculture. for a blank form
of application. Appointments depend
upon the answers.
e, q q
The applicant must make plain that he
has already studied forestry or is DESTROYS
Of doing so for a permanent calling SO
many applications have come to the bU-
reau from college students already study
ing forestry that men entirely without
| preliminary training must be fitted ex-
cepuonally for work in the wO0ds to get
appointments.
The work OF these student assistants is
! severe. They live in camps and keep the
hours of lumbermen Their chief labor is
/ ing standing timber or the contents and
/ rate Of growth OF felled trees.
1t requires strong young men for this
/ labor and all the instruction that such a
| student receives is what he absOTbs in his
work. The circular says OF these student
/ assistants:
They are not attending a summer
! school. but are taking a salaTied position,
Al
/ required to perform. The head of the
! party is al all times willing. in 50 far as
| it does not interfere with his own duties.
| to explain matters to the men under his
! charge.
he has, however, no time to deliver
| lectures nor to give formal instruction of
| any kind. The student assistant has in
/ his daily work abundant opportunity TO
learn; whether he makes the most of it
rests with him"
The bureaus circular says a trained
forester should be skilled in geology, ply
steal geography, mineralOgy. chemistry,
3 botany mathematics, and the practical
principles Of surveying. II also says that
| the expert forester should know some
/ thing OF physics, meterOlogy and political
/ economy.
There are three schools Of forestry in
the country. one at Cornell. one at Yale
1 and one at Biltmore. y. c. The Cornell
/ school requires four years study. the Yale
school requires two. The Biltmore school
gives instruction of one year without 4
| degree. Further details may be secured
Z from these schools.
As TO the future employment Of forest
eTs the bureau says it Ifs at present un-
able to find a sufficient number of suitably
prepared fOresters to supply its needs.
Preparation Of working plans for private
state and federal forest lands. forest in
! VeStigations and tree planting in many
states demand more men than can b
supplied at present
Holders of timber lands also realize tina
conservative numbering pays and this en-
larges the field of the fOresters. Tn.
bureau says the profession offers a fail
living for q we'll prepared man, but ais,
saws that the salaries will never b'
large" II adds that trained forester.
now in the bureaus employ receive from
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