Greetings from the world’s oldest forestry school. For about four months now I’ve been tramping the woods, sitting in the classrooms, and working over management plans that all date back to the time of Cotta, Pressler, and Judeich. The village of Tharandt is situated in the bottom of a very narrow, damp, and foggy three-pronged valley. Upon the heights overlooking these is the grave of Cotta.