Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — First American College of Forestry [ARTICLE]

First American College of Forestry

Considering the manner of its endowment, It is particularly fitting that the first adequately equipped college of forestry in the United States should be organized by Cornell University. This has been done under an act of the Legislature instituting the New York State College of Forestry, and placing it under the government of the university. The college starts on its work with an Initial appropriation of 30,000 acres of forest land in the Adirondack Mountains, and the law contemplates the technical management by the college of the entire forest area of the State, which it is thought will ultimately approximate 3,000,000 acres. The college “rooms” are the forests themselves, and the lessons to be taught aim at the selection of trees of the highest economic value and. their cultivation on a system promising the most rapid growth. For many years the great forest tracts of the United States have been subject to unrestrained denudation. Now, cultivation and conservation are found necessary. This first State college of forestry will determine the kind of trees that can bq grown to the best advantage and howj this growth can be promoted.