"What's your major?" "Forestry." "Oh, you want to be a Park Ranger and sit in a fire tower all the time.” "No, not really. You see I want to be in research.'' "Research?”

Published Annually by the Ames Forestry Club

The Twentieth Century has produced many great scientific and technological advances. We have vaccines against many diseases, space travel, electronic computers, artificial organs, nuclear power, satellite communications, and fast growing, pest-resistant food and fiber plants. These have not been produced by the efforts of solitary scientists, but by organized research and development programs employing the genius of many scientists, the facilities of many laboratories, and funding from many institutions.

Foresters, tourists, and landowners are shocked when they enter the eastern foothills and Ponderosa Pine belt east of the Continental Divide in Colorado.