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Show UTAH STATE A. C. OFFERS HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS FORESTRY. LOGAN An unusual educational opportunity in forestry for high-ranking high-ranking high school seniors was described Wednesday by L. . A Stoddart, acting dean of of the school of forestry at Utah State Agricultural college. Part of the recently launched program which allows the high schSol students to enter college while completing their high school requirements, the plan specified that each prospective student must be a senior with 14 units of work, have a grade average of "B". and be in good physical condition mm capable of hard outdoor work. Under recent arragements made between the college and Utah school, senior students may enter the Logan institution on February 1 and start regular work, with the credits so earned applied toward f ul-filling ul-filling graduation requirements and also towards a college degree. Working with the U. S. forest service, and soil conservation service, ser-vice, the school of forestry at Utah State will initiate a program tor giving special training to the seniors sen-iors and the Federal agencies will hire the man for three months to six months during the summer months, with work in the field of conservation and protection, a work second in importance only to the war effort at the present time time, Dean Stoddart said. Fire-control, fire supression, surveying, guarding, will included in the work with pay averaging from J100 to $150 a month. The school of Forestry is interested inter-ested primarily in men who want to make forestry, range management, manage-ment, or wildlife management a life work, although this is not re-nnirpmmt re-nnirpmmt and rredit and experi- ience so obtained may be used for work toward a college degTee In forestry if desired. It is planned that students take 12 hours of work in such subjects aa mathmatics, English, economics and botany during the winter quarter quar-ter from February 1 to March 19. During spring quarter, they will receive intensive training in methods meth-ods of fire control, woodcraft forestry for-estry and range conservation, surveying, sur-veying, public land adminstration and policy, and other subjects, with actual field training made in the mountains near Logan. Stoddart estimates that at least fifty men can be definitely assured of summer employment upon successful suc-cessful completion of course, and although no assurance can be given giv-en as to draft deferment for men of military age many draft boards have made a practice of giving deferments de-ferments to men actually at work in conservation, especially in fire control. He further advises interested inter-ested seniors to contact the Utah state school of forestry. M |