The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-22
HOW TO REPRODUCE
AMERICAN FORESTS.
Important Educational work mt
Milford, PA.

Milford, Pa.
Washington, June 21.-In view of
the ravages of forest fires in New
York and New England, the extraor-
binary floods which have recently pre-
vailed in the Central western States,
and the cioudbursts. cyclones, etc,
which have lately been tearing things
UP in various parts of the United
States from the Gulf States to the
Northwest Pacific slope, much interest
attaches to the opening Of the Sum
mer School of Forestry at Milford,
Pa, on July l. All these subjects will
be treated on incidentally at the school
as it is we'll known that the destruc-
ton of the forests has most import
ant bearing up meteorological condi-
tons and the value of scientific fores-
try in conserving the trees which pro-
tect the SHOWS on the mountain slopes
is too we'll recognized to need com
ment The school is conducted Under
the AUSPICES of the Yale Forest School
and Prof. j. ". Toumey, professor of
forestry at Yale, was in the city this
week comforting with Mr.. Clifford Pin
chot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry
of the Department of Agriculture, and
other officials of the bureau, arrang-
ing for lectures on. special subjects.
Prof. Tourney and Mr. Pinchot expect
that the coming sessions will do much
toward a more general diffusion of
knowledge concerning the subject.
The school is located at Milford,
Pike county. Pennsylvania, in a part
of the Keystone State heavily timber
ed and, while it has been cut over for
several centuries it still contains many
fine specimens of the trees indigeous
TO that locality Nearby are found
specimens of. trees not native, but
which have been successfully Guilt
waited, there being about 140 species
which can be studied in their natural
state at this school Landing at Port
Jervis, on the Erie Line, Milford, is
about six miles by stage. The school
is on the estate of Mr.. j. w. Pinchot,
the father of Mr.. clifford Pinchot, who,
himself takes d great interest in the
subject, and who, with his son and
ether members of his family, some
years ago endowed the Yale Forest
School. The geological formation is
largely shale and as the numerous
streams flow down the mountains they
cut the shaley soil and form many
beautiful waterfalls. ...-
Back from the Delaware river lakes
are TOu0Q DIT frequent lnlCA NcllSy anu al
together the scenery is very pictures
que. Mr.. Pinchot's estate comprises
much Of this beautiful territory with
abundance of woodland, and among
other features, the famous Sawkill
Fails of the Sawkill river. on the
wooded slope leading to the Sawkill
river are pitched the tents where the
students and professors live during the
eight weeks of the sessions. AS much
outdoor life is enjoyed as possible, but
for comfort and health the tents are
fioored. Each tent is WELL but modest
" furnished. and the meals are served
in 4 first-cla mess tent with Kitchen
attached OVER which a chef presides
During the two summers that sessions
have been held. the school having been
ORGANIZED In 1901, there has been nc
sickness among the scholars but, on
the contrary, the average gain to each
has been from sixteen to seventeen
pounds. Every morning the professors
lead the students to the Sawkill river
for a plunge and on Saturday evening
excursions are made into surrounding
territory where the students, wrapped
in their blankets sleep under the arch
ing boughs Of the trees they are taught
to love. The women students, for
the school is open to both men and
women. usually board in the village
nearby where there are numerous and
excellent boarding houses, Milford be-
ing quite a summer resort Class dis
tinction is not Known at this school for
the courses are so arranged, entire
liberty of selection being given to each
student, that the young woman from
the Normal School. who expects to lead
her scholars OF tender years into closer
communication with nature, the pro-
= - all nal
leges and universities, the wealthy
student from Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
or elsewhere, who vii some day apply
the knowledge so acquired to the estate
which he Will acquire by Inheritance;
the Young man who looks forward to
engaging in numbering, the student
v,ho homes either to teach forestry or
to become a forester or ranger and the
farmer boy whose knowledge of scien-
tific farming is thus increased; can all
find courses adapted to their special
needs and ordinations and all be bene-
fited thereby.
to furnish as much field work as pos
sibie and the lecture is quite as often
given under the ieafy boughs of the
trees concerning which the lecturer Is
treating as In the school building. This
structure is OF stone and quite spa
cious. and contains a good working
library. II is equipped with ample APP
paratus for inside and outside work.
As far as possible the lecturer in the
morning delivers his lecture IN the
class room and then takes the class
to view specimens which he has dis
ctissed 10 give them ocular demonstra-
ton Of the scientific points brought out
m the lecture. In the afternoon anoth-
er lecturer takes a class and follows
the same course. Forest botany, forest
Measurements. and silYicuiture are the
principal topics 81 study.
Several courses are provided, the
FIRST including an Introduction 20 for
estry in which the purpose and scope
OF forestry IL explained the direct and
indirect uses ~ The forest and the
forest policy ~ the United States. The
second course ~ on forest regions ~
the United states. and includes forest
protection This course iH illustrated
wen lantern slides by means N which
fha salient rhaTnrffuHiicf ~ different
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