The New York State College of Forestry, the first professional school of forestry in North America, opened its doors at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the autumn of 1898. It was advocated
Bernhard Fernow, first Dean of the College
Students and Loggers in Permanent Camp on the Cornell Forest Reserve
Hunter Mountain, Twilight (1866) by Hudson River School artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, showing the devastation wrought by years of tanbarking and logging.
Fernow Hall, Cornell University
Raphael Zon
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Raphael Zon was a prominent U.S. Forest Service researcher.
Raphael Zon as a younger man (left) and as an older man