Word: timber
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sturbridge for about a week, surveying and making a field map of about 500 acres of forest land for a lumber firm. The men will then go to Carabasset, where they will remain until about June 15, living in tents and making a field map of 5000 acres of timber land for the present owners. This trip is open to all Seniors in the Division of Forestry...
Professor Cary compared the advanced and enterprising methods of forest training and restocking in Germany, where the timber lands are, for the most part, owned and controlled by the government, with the reckless and destructive methods adopted in this country. In Germany the forests are continually watched by trained and highly educated men and, in certain districts, the future growths are rockoned for 150 years in the future. The lack of foresight displayed in this country offers great opportunities for technically trained men who are willing to sacrifice physical comforts to the hardy life of a forester...
...both in respect to the public work and also in the management of private woods. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views from photographs taken by Professor Cary in his studies in German and American forests. In 1896 he studied the methods of raising, reproducing and handling the timber lands in the German forests, for about four months, and later was engaged in the same work in Maine in the employ of lumber firms...
...fund of $150,000 for the endowment of a chair of Applied Forestry and Practical Lumbering has been presented to the Yale Forestry School by the National Lumber Dealers' Association. The course will furnish instruction in log scaling and timber estimating and in practical work of bridge and dam construction...
Forestry 2.--Forest Measurements.--Methods of computing the contents of felled and standing trees and of whole stands; the estimation of timber; the use and construction of American log scales; determination of diameter, height, and volume increment. Three times a week. Mr. R. T. Fisher. This course cannot be counted towards the degree...