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NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY. 257
York, 1898.) In the same act provisions were also made to establish
a demonstration forest of not more than 30,000 acres in the Adiron-
dacks,
to be purchased out of the funds set aside for the Forest Pre
serve Board, and to become the property of Cornell University for the
term of thirty years, and to be used as the "College Forest,"
for
demonstrations of practical forestry. By the same act the Commission
of Fisheries, Game and Forests is ordered to furnish the necessary
guards, and to protect the property.
While a State institution, the College is administered by the Trus
tees of Cornell University, and its students profit by courses of study
in the University classes and laboratories and by the University li
brary,
the same as other students.
OBJECT OF THE INSTITUTION.
The New York State College of Forestry is to furnish instruction in
the principles and practice of forestry and provide the facilities for
the education especially of managers of forest properties.
Forestry
is a business which attempts to produce revenue from the
systematic use of the soil for woodcrops, and the College of Forestry
will primarily have in view the education of business managers, with
the technical knowledge needful to carry on practical forest manage
ment.
The State of New York having recognized the necessity of a rational
forest policy, has acquired a large forest property in the Adirondacks
an area unsuitable for agricultural use, hence capable only of pro
ducing woodcrops, and at the same time the most important water
shed of the State, which requires the protection afforded by a persist
ent forest cover.
While the College will naturally keep these interests of the State in
view in the education of its future forest managers and in the conduct
of the school-forest, the needs of all students of will forestry find due
attention. The Federal Government has entered upon a similar policy
as the State of New York by creating forest reservations in the West
ern Mountains and several of the sister states have moved or intend to
move in the same direction, which will call for technical advisers and
managers. Furthermore, owners of large areas of timberland, manu
facturers of lumber, of woodpulp, and others, are beginning to recog
nize that application of knowledge and skill in the management of
their property forestry prove profitable. may Keeping in view
these requirements it will be the aim of the College of Forestry to
furnish all the needful theoretical instruction which a thoroughly
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