Hugh Potter Baker (January 20, 1878 – May 24, 1950) was a graduate of the Michigan State College of Agriculture; Yale's School of Forestry (M.F., 1904); and the

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(Ph.D., Economics, 1910). He was the second and fourth Dean of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, from 1912 to 1920 and 1930 to 1933. Baker previously had worked with

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at the United States Bureau of Forestry and Forest Service (1901–04). Immediately before coming to Syracuse, Baker was Professor of Forestry at the

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. After his second stint as Dean of the College of Forestry, Baker went on to become

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of Massachusetts State College (1933–47), presently known as the

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Selected works

"The Prairie Farmer and Forestry"
(1907)
"Some Forestry Problems of the Prairies of the Middle West"
(1908)
"Native and Planted Timber of Iowa"
(1908)
"Forestry and Its Relation to Horticulture"
(1908)
"Why Pennsylvania Needs Forestry"
Forest Leaves, Vol. XII (1909)
"The Third Conservation Congress Held at Kansas City, Missouri"
(1911)
"Syracuse University and the City of Syracuse"
(1914)
"Forestry and Reconstruction in New York"
(1919)
"The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper as an American Industry"
(1920)
"Fundamental Silvicultural Measures Necessary to Insure Forest Lands Remaining Reasonably Productive After Logging"
co-authored by Edward F. McCarthy, Journal of Forestry, Vol. XVIII (1920)

Honors

* A dormitory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Baker Hall, is named in his honor. * Baker Laboratory (formally, the Hugh P. Baker Memorial Laboratory) at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, successor to the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, is named after him."Baker Laboratory,"
SUNY-ESF website. Accessed: 20 August 2018.

References

External links

located in the Archives of the SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Hugh P. State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry faculty Leaders of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry New York State College of Forestry Michigan State University alumni Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni History of forestry education American foresters Leaders of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Iowa State University faculty 1878 births 1950 deaths Scientists from New York (state) American expatriates in Germany