The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-01
SCHOOL OF FORESTRY
OPENED TODAY
For a Summer Session at Milford
Pennsylvania-Scope of
the Work.

Milford, Pa, July lin view of
the ravages of forest fires in New
York and New England, the extraor-
dlnary floods which have recently
prevailed in the Central Western
states and the cloudbursts. cyclones.
etc, which have lately been go dis
astrous in various parts of the United
States from the Gulf states to the Pa
cine northwest slope, much interest
attaches to the summer school Of
forestry, which opened here today.
All these subjects will be treated ON
incidentally at the school, as il is we'll
known that the destruction of the for
ests has a most important bearing
upon meteorological conditions.
The school is conducted under the
auspices of the Yale Forest school.
and Milford was selected as the loca-
ton because the vicinity is heavily
tlmbered and contains many fine
specimens Indigenous to the keystone
state. The primary object of the
school is to furnish as much field work
as possible and consequently many Of
the lectures are given in the open air
among the trees. Forest botany. for
est measurements and silviculture are
the principal topics of study. Sever
al courses are provided, the first in
Guiding an Introduction to forestry, in
Wnlch the purpose and scope of forest
-. in which the purpose and scope
Of forestry are explained. the direct
and indirect uses OF the forest. and
the forest policy OF the United States,
The second course is on forest
regions of the United States and in
cludeS forest protection. This course
is illustrated with lantern slides. by
means of which the salient charac-
teristics of different trees are pointed
out the types of forest trees, the
mixture Of them in growing and the
operations of numbering as practiced
IN different parts of the United
States.
Roy L. Marston, instructor in for
estry at Yale, is in charge of the
school and will lecture on silviculture
forest protection and forest regions,
assisted by Mr.. Graves. an assistant
at the Yale school, in charge of the
laboratory work. who will also lect-
ure on forest botany Clifford Pinchot
chief of the bureau of forestry of the
| United States department of agricul-
|
the forest policy of the United States.
| Professor Brewer of Yale university
will lecture on forest meteorology, a
! subject in which SO much interest is
! manifested at the present TIME. J. 3.
| SudwOrth. Of the forestry division Of
| the department of agriculture. Edward
| a. Bowers of the Yale forest school
| ard other scientists will lecture on
turpentine and other industries. forest
| law. and other special problems.
| Excursions will be made into the
| Pennsylvania state forest reserve and
| into New Jersey to study the princi-
pal sources OF injury to forests. in
| Guiding forest fires. grazing. parasitic
| fungi and insects. Under forest
measurements will be taught the
| methods of determining the volume
| Of single trees and whole stands of
trees. together with valuation surveys,
| so that the students will be able to
measure and value single trees and
tracts The course in silverculture
| VIII take up the effect of environment
on the trees, including soil, shade.
moisture, etc.