Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commerce and labor, a step which created at the time much unfavorable comment, but which has already demonstrated its worth and beneficence. Following this came the great railroad legislation of 1906, and then the laws for the conservation of the nation's resources, protecting the country against the timber thieves and the mineral operators. But greater than any of these was the canal legislation, the realization of an aspiration of the American people hundreds of years old. Theodore Roosevelt was the man who got these measures through, and they stand today, a splendid monument to his work in national affairs...
...Forestry, spoke before the Forestry Club last night on "Reminiscences of Field Work in the Forest Service." In 1899 Professor Fisher was commissioned to do some exploration work in the forests of Washington. The task consisted in making a trail into sparsely settled country which was supposed to have timber-land suitable for a national forest, climbing all the mountains that offered points of advantage for making rough maps of the surrounding territory, and plotting out the general topography on a township...
...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...
...each class follows one operation in all places from the woods to the market. In addition to this experimental field, the School has secured the use of Corbin's Park in New Hampshire, a larger tract of 20,000 acres, as a practice field for forest surveying and timber estimating. Other facilities for the study of large logging and milling operations have been secured by the School through the courtesy of numerous lumber companies in Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania...