Forestry Quarterly

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SCIENCES UNDERLYING FORESTRY. By B. E. Fernow. In connection with the preceding article by Professor Baker, the following thoughts on the relative importance of the Sciences underlying forestry, formulated for a different occasion, may not come amiss. The writer agrees most fully with the tripartite...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SCIENCES UNDERLYING FORESTRY. By B. E. Fernow. In connection with the preceding article by Professor Baker, the following thoughts on the relative importance of the Sciences underlying forestry, formulated for a different occasion, may not come amiss. The writer agrees most fully with the tripartite subdivision of foresters which Professor Baker makes, namely, into lower grade local executives, higher grade local managers, and highest grade leaders, and that according to the needs of these three classes schools or curricula ought to be devised. It is still open to question in my mind, whether an undergraduate course cannot be devised and conducted that shall at least satisfy the second class. My experience at Cornell University would lead me to believe that a sufficient basis can be laid by such a course to enable the later development in the practice of first class managers; and even leaders may develop out of those graduates, who, endowed with native ability and through private study, develop superior judgment. After all, the personality of the man, and the personality of the teacher have more to do with the result than the course. The undergraduate four-year course, as outlined by Professor Baker, very closely resembles the one laid out by the writer for the first professional forest school at Cornell University, and again revived in the University of Toronto. To meet the requirement of a better educated class of foresters, and yet to maintain the idea of an undergraduate course, a course has been devised at the University of Toronto for those that can afford it, which, lasting through six years, leads to both the Arts degree and the undergraduate Forestry degree at the end of the six years. The idea underlying this arrangement is the early introduction...