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...things around the room; men working with copper wire at little tables. An air of order and quiet. S--informs me these are the studios of the Harvard Forest. Laughing lightly at my quizzical look, he adds that the Harvard Forest is no playground for freshmen, but woods in Petersham, Mass. For years the late Professor Fisher has directed the Forest, which makes models to illustrate the forest history of central New England and present-day methods of forestry. Now more models are being made by Mr. Cline for the suggested Fisher Museum of Forestry. All very intricate...
...Richard T. Fisher, first Director of the Harvard Forest at Petersham, Mass, evolved his scheme for teaching forestry through models. With some $30,000 from an anonymous donor, Director Fisher gave the contract to the professional model-making firm of Guernsey & Pitman. His instructions were that all the models should be of the same scale (half an inch to the foot), that the trees should not be random twigs and bits of painted sponge, but accurate reproductions which any naturalist could recognize...
Most interesting of the four-foot models on view last week was a group of seven showing the history of one hillside at Petersham, Mass. First appeared the primeval forest of 1700: white pines 150 ft. tall tower over the beeches, maples, hemlocks and oaks; only in a clearing caused, perhaps, by an Indian's fire is the weedy undergrowth of modern woods visible...
...forest over which he will have charge consists of 2,300 acres of woodland in Petersham, about 70 miles from Cambridge...
...forest) rangers have not intruded themselves into liberal arts colleges." Without casting any aspersions upon Benningten or Dartmouth, I can point out that Harvard gives a course on "The Ethics of the Family," and that there is an Arnold Arboretum in Boston, and a Harvard Forest in Petersham. Furthermore, a graduate can become not merely a "ranger" but a "Doctor of Forestry...