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FORESTERS CREATE JOBS
FIELD 18 LIMITED AND RANK8
ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING
FILLED.
MEN MUST SPECIALIZE
Lumbering or Similar Phase of the
Work Must Be Taken Up Ne
braska Course in Forestry
Exceptional.
The field of technical forestry Is nec
OHnnrlly limited. Although the "fores
try movement" started almost fifteen
years ago, and there are now twenty--aur
lorestry schools turning out over
one hundred and twenty-five" men H
year, there are only about bIx hundred
trained foresters In the United States.
Tho demand for forostry work does not
nearly keep pace with this rapid pro
duction, so foresters will soon have to
dig out jobs for themselves.
Tho widest and most popular field
has always been tho government ser
vice, but, aB the ranks are becoming
filled, only a few now mon are required
each year and the ranks of tho en
trance position Is being reduced. For
estry work with BtateB, cities, and pri
vates companies does not and probably
never will require the services of all
tho men being turned out. This is in
dicated by a warning sent out by a
commission which investigated the sit
uation In Germany, where forestry has
long been well established, stating that
prospective students could not expect
to get private or communal work.
There is one thing left for the sur
plus forostry students to do. They
must adapt themselves to some closely
allied work lumbering, wood-using In
dustries, wood products industries oy
nursery work. Tho forester who has
not prepared for mich work usually
knows about It only in a general way.
Ho must enter that work at the begin
ning and work up. This is just what
many engineers and lawyers have been
doing for a number of years on account
of the crowding of the purely technical
fields In the future many forestry stu
dents will undoubtedly specialize more
or less while in college on the line of
work which they expect to take up.
Thus, one may wish to become a log
ging engineer, another a mill superin
tendent, another a city forester anoth
er a nursery man, etc At present
there is no demand for technically
trained foresters in these lines, and
there probably neer will be, but tho
opportunity is there for trained men to
no into the work, usually with a great
er chance for success than the maul
who starts in without such training.
The University of Nebraska, unlike
most schools, requires that a man shall
liavo one year of practical experience
before he can recelvo a master's de
gree In forestry. This takes the place
of a regular field courso given in many
schools, and vis a very essential part of
tho forester's education. This makes
it necessary for the embryo foresters
to put all modesty and homesickness
aside and dig right into practical work
as soon as the summer vacation be
gins. If he Is energetic and fortunate
enough to land a job every summer,
lie will have had one year of practical
experience by tho end of Mb fifth year
of school, making him ollglble for a
master's degree. Tho freshman, as a
rule, are aont to Halsey, Neb., during
the spring planting season, and here
they gain oxperlonce In nursery work
and planting in tho sandhills of the
Nebraska National ForeBt.
Tho first summer vacation Is usually
tho test of whether a man really wants
to be a forester or not. The freshmen,
as a rule, have to take tho positions
left over by tho upper classmen. Those
positions are usually in sawmills, lum
ber camps, or planing mills. Men from
tho University have worked in lumber
camps in Kentucky, Texas, Colorado,
Arizona, Idaho, Montana and Wiscon
sin. If a freshman can "stick out" for
a summer In a lumber camp It is a
good sign that ho lias energy enough
to make o good forester.
After the first summer's experience
a Btudent begins to think that he no
longer belongs in the ranks of the com
mon laborer, but that he might possi
bly bo of some valuo to the forest ser
vice. A good many oflTie sophomore
got positions as student assltsants and
field assistants in the service. For the
last few years these men have been
put largely on timber reconnaissance.
Thoy are sent out In the woods in
crews of from four to twelve men, and
It Is their duty to nmke topographic
and forest map and make an estimate
of tho timber.
After a student has worked in tho
service for a summer and has made
good tho sailing is pretty smooth. From
then on he is not classed with the
greenhorn, and consequently he Is
given a job in the summer time if tho
appropriation for the purpose penults
it.
The summer trips of the foresters
are an excellent means of advetrising
the University. Students from tho for
estry department are found in all sec
tions of the country during the sum
mer. Last summer students were en
gaged in forestry work in tho follow
ing states: Nebraska, South Dakota,
Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washing
ton, California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona,
New Mexico, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.
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