Forestry courses at Iowa State College . started in the year 1878, and have continued, expanded and flourished since that time. In 1913, the Ames Forester became a yearly tradition at Iowa State. In the first edition there is an article entitled The Making Of An Ames Forester . It mentions the Ames motto of Science with Practice . This motto was created years ago and continues to apply to forestry at Iowa State today, so I thought it would be perfect for a past to present comparison of the Summer/Fall camp period for the \u27Roots to Shoots\u27 issue of this years Ames Forester. I read the article thinking it was about the publication, but instead I found the groundwork that had been laid for the creation of what was then referred to as t...