Year in and year out, Iowa State University forestry students have migrated many miles to different parts of our country to attend their respective summer camps. Last summer, 48 students and three faculty members traveled 780 miles to take part in the second consecutive forestry camp held at Winter Park, Colorado. Many wonderful days were spent surveying forestry in this beautiful country of high, timbered ridges and open range country of the lower altitudes. Long days in the field, cold winds and sometimes rain, hail and snow were to be tolerated. Several reasons for conducting these camps will be considered here.

Last year’s Ames Forester carried the first announcement of the G. B. Hartman Travel Award. Mike Hathaway, John Shepard, and myself were fortunate enough to be chosen as the first three “Hartman Fellows.” This past fall, in mid-October, the three of us and Dr. Thomson embarked on a ten-day, 2700-mile trip through the South, which I am sure we will always remember.