College of forestryIn 1898, The first U.S. college of forestry was created at Cornell University upon the signing of a state law by the New York governor. A Prussian-born and trained forester, Dr. Bernhard Fernow, was the first head of the forestry department. Fernow was devoted to raising the level of professionalism in the care of natural resources. He had emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1876, published a series of articles about forestry and helped found the American Forestry Congress in 1882. Four years later was chief of the new Division of Forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture - a position he resigned to establish the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University. He later organized forestry schools in Pennsylvania and Toronto, Canada. |
