Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-01
maine FORESTRY
CAMP AT STACY
VILE NOVEL ONE
Only School of Instruction in
Uni it e d States-Its Short
Term Productive of Good
Results

Camp Lunkasoo, Stacyville, Me-,
Aug. 31.-What is perhaps the most
novel educational institution in the
United States-the Maine Forestry
School Camp, under the auspices of
the Forestry Department of Maine
closed its second annual session here
Saturday. after having been success
fully conducted under the direction of
Prof. John M. Briscoe, head of the
forestry department of the University
OF Maine, since Aug. II. Camp was
broken early in the day and students
and instructors loaded their duffie up
on tote teams for the seven mile trip
over rough woods roads to the Bangor
& Aroostook railroad station and home.
The past II days spent here have
been full of pleasure in the healthy.
out door life, and of benefit from the
working knowledge of an art which
means much to the future economic
development of Haine, gained by the
students.
The summer forestry camp conduct
ed by the State was held near Prince
ton in Washington County in 1912
This season, through the kindness of
Dr' Charles E. Adams of Bangor, this
exceptionally favorable locality be-
available. The camp is beautifully
situated. On fair days, Mount Katah-
DIN has doomed in the background.
While in front. Lunkasoo and Hunt
mountains raise their wooded SUBMITS
ABOVE the thick carpet of forest which
covers the surrounding country. The
camp is directly upon the East branch
OF the Penobscot river about seven
miles west of the B. & A. station at
Stacyville.
Inc camp here has had every adj
vantage possible, as far as the for
estry and numbering interests are con-
cerned. Within two miles, there ara
fine stands of spruce and other soft
WOODS Directly across the river from
the camp, hemlock operation is be-
ing conducted. Work on a poplar on
Grafton is just about completed and
preparations are now under way for
large winter operation on a nadioin-
ing tract.
Pesldes the tents the students have
hao the use of an excellent log cabin
Where the meals have been served. and
IN which the lectures were given dur
.is the IeW days of rain. Ordinar-
hy they have been given in front of
one Oh the tents, where an extra ev
was rugged to make enough shade for
taking notes. ~.
me mornings have been devoted to
lectures ana the afternoons given up
~ piaeticai held work and demonstra
'ioms III the surrounding woods.
Inc course at an institution of this
character has been necessarily very
elementary, owing both to the fact
that the school was held but from,
Aug. IL to 20. and to the fact that
there We're no entrance requirements
many of the students had no previous
knowledge or foundation for this par
lcuiar line of work. A brief survey
mas been made of the fields of silvi-
culture, mensuration, forest botany.
forest protection and numbering. as
well as the economics of forestry In
structor Eaton of the U. of M For
estry school has taught the latter and
mensuration, while the remaining suh-
Jects have been given by Professor
Briscoe.
Inc course was especially designed
by the State to be of benefit to tim
perland owners, timber cruisers.
guides, patrolmen, and men thinking
OF taking up forestry as profession
IL was primarily intended for all who
wished to get a general knowledge of
the Ideas and methods of forestry in
a short time and at a minimum ex-
pense. The course was open to any,
one not under Is years of age. Meals
nave been cooked by the camp cook
and served in the log cabin. Cots and
camp chairs were provided.
Maine is the only State in the Union
to offer summer forestry camp and
the idea has been widely commented
upon In other sections of the couu-
try.
Among the students who have taken
the course here under Professor Bris-
coe during the past fortnight are DR.
charles e. Adams, cumberland own
er, Bangor; Nathaniel M. Lawrence
student, Norwalk, Conn; Hiram p
Lawrence. student, Norwalk, Conn;
Lester E. Grant, surveyor, Patten:
Thomas M. Murray, student Ham,
den; John w. Swan. fire warden.
Stacyville, and F. Roscoe Weber.
cumberland owner. Brookline, Mass.