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Additional Members 



S. L. Moore, Florida R. S. Kellogg, New York 



Walter Mulford. California E. G. Cheyney, Minnesota 



P. S. Lovejoy, Michigan H. H. Chapman, New Mexico 



Alfred Gaskill, New Jersey A. K. Chittenden, Michigan 



A. B. Hastings, New Hampshire A. B. Recknagel, New York 



R. S. Maddox, Tennessee. F. E. Olmsted, California 



J. E. Rothery, New York W. T. Cox, Minnesota 



J. W. Sewell, Maine -Hugo Winkenwerder, Washington 



^^'ith such a large committee, with its members so widely scattered, 

 it was apparent that it would be necessary for its members to work 

 more or less independent of each other. Early in iSIay a communica- 

 tion was sent to each member of the committee, enumerating certain 

 kinds of work and investigation that might have a direct or indirect 

 bearing upon the war or on reconstruction after peace terms were 

 signed. Suggestions and recommendations were also asked for. It 

 was urged that each member of the committee undertake and encour- 

 age other foresters in their locality to undertake lines of work bearing 

 upon war activities afforded by their own immediate vicinity. The 

 replies to this communication showed that much work relating to for- 

 estry and bearing upon war activities and war industries was already 

 under way by members of this Society. Although it has been imprac- 

 tical for your committee to meet as a whole, there have been meetings 

 of the executive committee and two specific lines of work directly bear- 

 ing upon war needs have been ptirsued with considerable success. 



Soon after the reorganization of the committee your chairman turned 

 his attention to what he believed most useful at that time, namely, the 

 bringing of foresters seeking employment in war work in communica- 

 tion with army officers needing trained foresters for inspectors and 

 other work. The committee has been instntmental in helping to secure 

 a number of trained men for much-needed war work. 



Soon after the declaration of war, difficulties arose in locating avail- 

 able supplies of standing timber of various species and kinds in eastern 

 United States suitable for use in local war industries. Your War 

 Committee believed that if the war continued into the following year a 

 timber census of New England and New York would be of substantial 

 value in the conduct of the war industries located therein. The plan 

 at first was to confine the work to New York and Maine, but later it 

 was extended to all the New England States and New Jersey as well. 

 The work was started by Messrs. Recknagel and Kellogg and Mr. 

 Colby, the Forest Commissioner of Maine, following a conference in 



