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The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) is a professional school of Yale University. Founded to train foresters, it now trains leaders and creates new knowledge that will sustain and restore the health of the biosphere and the well-being of its people. Still offering forestry instruction, the school has the oldest graduate forestry program in the United States. ==History== The School was founded in 1900 as the Yale Forest School, to provide high-level forestry training suited to American conditions. At the urging of Yale alumnus Gifford Pinchot, his parents endowed the two-year postgraduate program. At the time Pinchot was serving as Bernhard Fernow's successor as Chief of the Division of Forestry (predecessor of the USFS). Pinchot released two foresters from the Division to start the School: fellow Yale graduate Henry Solon Graves and James Toumey. Graves became the School's first dean and Toumey its second. When the School opened, other places in the United States offered forestry training, but none had a post-graduate program. (Both Pinchot and Graves had gone to Europe to study forestry after graduating from Yale.) In the fall of 1900, the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell had 24 students, Biltmore Forest School 9, and Yale 7.〔 Despite its small size, from its beginnings the School influenced American forestry. The first two chiefs of the USFS were Pinchot and Graves; the next three were graduates from the School's first decade. Wilderness and land conservation advocate Aldo Leopold graduated in the class of 1908. In 1915, Yale School of Forestry's second dean, James Toumey, became one of the "charter members", along with William L. Bray of the New York State College of Forestry, by then reestablished at Syracuse University, and Raphael Zon, of the Ecological Society of America.〔http://esa.org/history/〕 In 1950, the "activist wing" of that society formed The Nature Conservancy.〔 Besides the school's own forests, Yale has used a number of other sites in the eastern United States for field education over the years. From 1904 to 1926, the summer session leading to a master's degree in forestry was held at Grey Towers and Forester's Hall in Milford, Pennsylvania.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania ) ''Note:'' This includes 〕 Beginning in 1912, Yale classes took occasional field trips to the land of the Crossett Lumber Company in Arkansas. For two decades from 1946 until 1966, the company provided the school a "camp," including cabins and a mess hall, used during spring coursework on forest management and wood products production. Yale students have also used a field camp at the Great Mountain Forest in northwestern Connecticut since 1941.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Great Mountain Forest )〕 The school changed its name to the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1972. The school's current dean is Sir Peter Crane, the English evolutionary biologist who formerly served as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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