Many o£ the Iowa State Foresters spent the greater part of the summer of 1947 engaged in the pursuit of higher learning, either on the campus or at the summer camp at Priest River, Idaho. Those who were not so engaged were busy gaining varied field experience, and incidentally accumulating a few shekels in the old sock, to tide them over another year of school. Such procedure is more the rule than the exception among the ranks of the foresters. In the belief that these summer activities are of interest to both our student and alumni readers, we are inaugurating the policy of presenting a brief resume of them under the title. "Afield With The Foresters.”