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The academy was rebuilt and today has about 650 students and is famous for its long traditions of educating students from all over the world in forestry (including a programme in tropical forestry), resource management and sustainable land use.
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Among the oldest arboreta in the world, the Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt, was established by Cotta in the same year as the Academy. Five years later, in 1816, it was integrated administratively with the College.
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In Saxony, as in other parts of Germany, there were concerns that forests might be over-exploited and needed to be properly managed. In 1810, Heinrich Cotta was appointed to a government forestry post under
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Today it belongs to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of the Dresden University. It is open to the public from April to October, and the admission is free of charge.
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The school lives on today as a campus of the Dresden University of Technology, and site of its Department of Forestry, which continues to train foresters.
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In 2002, a severe flood destroyed many of the academy buildings and the library, including some of its more-than-500-year-old books.
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in 1990, the College of Forestry (Forstliche Hochschule) had already been integrated into the
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in 1811. Established in conjunction with the school, and later integrated with it, was the
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and varieties of woody plants. Its museum is housed in the Schweizerhaus Tharandt.
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The arboretum was expanded most recently in 1998. Today it contains some 2,000
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Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Environmental Sciences
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and site of that institution's Department of Forestry.
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