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The Study Of Forestry

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
April
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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THE STUDY OF FORESTRY

In view of the importance which the study of forestry conditions in the United States is assuming, the position of professor of forestry has been created at the University of Michigan, and Filibert Roth of the bureau of forestry of the United States agricultural department has been appointed to the professorship.

Professor Roth is a graduate of the University of Michigan, he having been granted the degree of bachelor of science in 1890. His previous experience has fitted him exceptionally well for this work. In 1887, while a student, he became custodian of the university museum, and the following year he began work on the study of our native woods for the United States department of agriculture. In 1893 he was called to Washington, where for five years he conducted investigations of forest conditions in the United States. From 1808 to 1901 he was connected with the New York; State College of Forestry at Cornell, where, as assistant professor, he taught mensuration and utilization, and timber physics, and was manager f the college forest. Two years ago he was recalled to Washington and entered upon an extended study of forest reserves in the west. In November of 1901 he was appointed chief of the division of forest reserves in the department of the interior, which placed upon him a responsibility for the forestry service of a territory aggregating some 50,000,000 acres.

Professor Roth's appointment at the University of Michigan at the present j time is in direct line with the policy j adopted by the board of regents of that institution, as expressed in the establishment of a department of forestry to co-operate with the Michigan state forestry commission in measures for the restoration of the Michigan forests and the development of a conservative forest policy.