. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Can<tdi(ui Forcslri/ Journal, December, 1917 1435. FELLING TREES FOR STEM ANALYSIS other part of the equipment. It has taken forestry out of the laboratory and the lecture room and established it where it belongs—in the woods. The building is 16 x 20 feet inside, of peeled spruce and fir logs, chinked with moss. The tar-paper roof has been recently shingled because woods- men tell us that a camp enters into senile decay at the top and not through the rotting of its timbers. The total cost of the camp, including hardwar
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Can<tdi(ui Forcslri/ Journal, December, 1917 1435. FELLING TREES FOR STEM ANALYSIS other part of the equipment. It has taken forestry out of the laboratory and the lecture room and established it where it belongs—in the woods. The building is 16 x 20 feet inside, of peeled spruce and fir logs, chinked with moss. The tar-paper roof has been recently shingled because woods- men tell us that a camp enters into senile decay at the top and not through the rotting of its timbers. The total cost of the camp, including hardware and floor, was not over $, the work being done entirely by the students. So far it has never housed students for a week or two, but its chief use has been as head- quarters for work carried on on Sat- urdays, being within easy walking distance of the University. How The Camp is Used The work of the fall term of last year may give some idea of the use- fulness of the camp as a center of operations. Juniors were assigned certain 25 acre lots to cruise and make a silvicultural report upon, turning in a topographic and type map of these lots plotted to a scale of five chains to the inch. They had asso- ciated with them the lower classmen, five or more men in a party, the Junior directing the work and looking after instruments, etc. Later on in the fall, felling operations started and they were assigned to work in stem analysis of spruce and fir and volume table work on paper birch, following the choppers. If there were not enough trees down, some went to felling and sawing them up into log lengths, others disposing of the brush and slash, until each tree was properly finished. The next Sat- urday, perhaps, yarding started and some were put to scaling logs as they were piled. When snow comes they assist in the preparation of the haul- ing roads and by Christmas have had a chance to learn a variety of things about mensuration and logging. Boys from the city are less expert w
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