The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-25
SCHOOL OF FORESTRY
Novel Institution Will Open It's
Summer Course the First Of
Next Month.
It's Object Is to Teach All There
Is to Know About
Forestry.
From The journal Bureau, Room Is, Post Build

From Tho Journal Bureau, Room Is, Post Build
ing, Washington. @
Washington, June 25.-Scientists con-
nected with the bureau OF forestry. of the
department Of agriculture, are looking for
ward with unusual interest to the opening
of the summer school Of forestry at Mill
ford, Pa, on July /. The attention Of
the country has been most forcibly direct7
ed to the necessity Of All increased diff
fusion of general knowledge of the mete-
geological influence Of the forests and
their relation to rainfall, to excuses OF
weather and climate and to the public
health by the ravages within the last SIX
weeks Of the forest fires, floods. and cy-
clones which have destroyed so many
lives and so much valuable property. y
Just what influence the presence, or
the absence, the destruction or the re-
planting Of forests has upon such condi-
tions, together with the means OF protect
ing the forests from ruthless and destruct-
i've processes Of numbering, fire, parasitic
fungi, insects, cattle and sheep grazing,
and drifting sand will be care
fully studied at the summer school.
Professor J. w. Tourney, professor OF
forestry at Yale, while In Washington last
week, made arrangements with CLIFFORD
Pinchot, chief of the division OF forestry,
G. B. Sudworth and other scientists, to
deliver, special lectures at the school. All
consulted believe the work this summer
will be of unusual Importance in view Of
the extraordinary conditions which have
prevailed In various parts Of the country
during the past two months and the UNI
doubted relation which the forest holds to
them. 81
Picturesque Surroundings.
It is only within recent years that any
special interest has. been manifested in
the subject Of forestry In the United
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due to the efforts Of Clifford Pinchot, and
his father, ]. W. Pinctot, who endowed
the Yale forest school. The summer
school is located at Grey Towers, the es-
tate Of J. w. Pinchot, near the village Of
Milford, Pike county, Pa, in a heavily
timbered section where the numbering in
terests were formerly quite extensive.
Many fine, specimens of trees Indigenous
to this locality are found on Mr.. Pin
chot's estate and in the Pennsylvania
forest reserve nearby and across the
Delaware river in New Jersey, where the
students are taken on excursions. Many
specimens of trees not native but which
have been introduced are also found here
and about 40 specimens can be studied in
their natural state. The tract is cut by
many mountain streams forming frequent
and beautiful waterfalls, one of the most
/ celebrated being the SaWkill river falls on
Mr.. Pinchot's estate. Numerous lakes
nestle among the hills back from the
Delaware river and with the wild wood
land and the well-kept farms, the valleys,
hills farms and lakes, the scenery is
highly picturesque. - 49, ~. ~
One. of the primary objects Of the school
is to give as much outdoor life and field
work as possible, and so the professors
and the men students live in tents, the
camp being pitched on the wooded slope
leading to the Sawkill in whose limpid
waters the morning plunge is enjoyed by
all. Each tent Is we'll, but modestly,
furnished, and for comfort and health Is
foored A large mess tent with a
kitchen presided over by a frst-clas
chef, is another attraction for: the
students who acquire famous appetites on
their tramps thru the forests. On Satur>
day evenings the camp breaks up into
parties who make excursions into the
forests and the night is spent under the
trees, the students wrapped in a blanket
after the fashion that President Roose.
welt has made popular. The women
students board in the village near by. Y
No Class Distinctions. &
Their is no class distinction at this
school, where the scholars include wealthy
students from Yale, Harvard and" the
other principal universities who expect tt
utilize their instruction In forestry in the
management Of the estates they will in.
| herit; young men who are preparing tt
| enter the numbering business; the student
| who hopes to become a professor in for.
| estry; others who propose to enter the
! service Of the government or Of private in.
dividuals as foresters or rangers; the
farmer boy who wishes to increase hi.
| knowledge Of scientific farming; youns
women from normal schools who propose
to teach mature studies" and even pro
fessors of botany at well-known uni
| versities. -s:.
The lecture hall Is of stone and i
equipped with good working library an
ample apparatus for inside and Outsid
work. Lectures are delivered in the NOR
ming and the afternoon, and as far as pos
sible the lecturer takes his class into TIL
field or forest, where he explains an
| nOnstrates the points made in the lee
ture. A number of courses Of study ar
provided and the students. choose 70
themselves what courses they desire t
Fpursue.. There are no examinations, 70
the principal object Of the school is t
bring the students into closer contact wit
nature.
! One course includes an introduction t
forestry. in which the purpose and scop
Of forestry is explained, together with tn
direct and indirect uses Of the forest, ain
the forest policy5'of the United State.
I Another course deals with forest region
| Of the United States and forest protection
This course is illustrated by stereoptico
views by which the various types Of fores
trees, their mixture in growing, lumberin
operations and injuries by fire, grazing
ETC., are presented to the students.
AS the sessions will last for eight week
and attendance on the school affords
pleasant and profitable method Of study
ing in the hot summer months at a yer
small expense, there will be a number {
students from different parts Of the Unite
States, and much benefit is expected frol
these studies. ).
w. w. Jermane.