Word: forester
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the increasing number of men interested in the movement for the conservation of natural resources, and particularly in the technical knowledge connected with forestry, an account of the facilities offered by the Forest School, including courses in Forestry given at Cambridge and practical lumbering instruction given at the Harvard Forest at Petersham, is given below...
...Forest School has been greatly strengthened during the present academic year by the addition to the teaching staff of Austin Cary, Lecturer on Lumbering and Forest Engineering, and Edward E. Carter, Assistant Professor of Forestry. These two men possess, in addition to marked ability in special fields of technical work, a comprehensive and intimate acquaintance with the organization and management of the lumber business and the National Forest Service, the two great fields in which foresters find employment...
...Carter came to the School from the Forest Service where he occupied the position of Assistant Forester. Owing to his marked executive ability and technical efficiency he had shared since 1907 with Mr. W. T. Cox the responsible position of directing the timber sales and silvicultural work on the National Forest Reserves. The other teachers in the department are Assistant Professor Richard T. Fisher, who is chairman of the Division of Forestry, Professor Edward C. Jeffrey, Assistant Professor J. G. Jack, Mr. Charles T. Brues, and Mr. Irving W. Bailey...
...professional course in Forestry offered by the Forest School is now a well-balanced one and aims to make its students familiar with the theoretical principles of forestry and their application, and to give them substantial experience in logging and the lumber business. The course is particularly designed to meet the increasing demand on the part of the National and State Forest Service, the lumber companies, and private individuals for men of technical training in forestry who are sufficiently familiar with the lumber business to aid in solving the problems of the conservative management of forest property. For admission...
...field equipment of the Forest School is admirably adapted to this work. The Harvard Forest at Petersham comprises 2,000 acres of pine and hard woods. In managing the forest the policy of the school is to carry on regular logging operations and other woods work, and to handle its operations in such manner that they shall be financially successful and demonstrate the application of technical forestry methods under American conditions. The students work with the woods crew during a part of the logging season, and each class follows one operation in all places from the woods to the market...