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work and in the best utilization of wood are pressing, as shown in the recent call 

 of the Arm}' for at least 16,000 men proficient in the inspection of wood, in work- 

 ing in wood, in lumbering, and in other vocations relating directly to the handling 

 and utilization of forest products in the conduct of war. It has been found 

 desirable to extend the original war committee of the Society of American For- 

 esters to include a wide representation of all the interests of the profession, such 

 as national and State forestry, schools of forestrj', and private forestry. I have 

 been appointed chairman of this enlarged committee and have been charged with 

 its organization. The members of the Society selected for this committee are 

 drawn from widely separated parts of the country and represent all fields of the 

 profession. They are as follows : 



Executive Committee 



James W. Toumey, Connecticut, Chairman 



Raphael Zon, Washington, D. C, Secretary 



Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania Irving W. Bailey, Massachusetts 



E. H. Clapp, Washington, D. C. C. R. Pettis, New York 



General Committee 



Sydney L. Moore, Florida R. S. Kellogg, Illinois 



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. Rothcry, New York W. T. Cox, Minnesota 



J. W. Sewall, Maine Hugo Winkenwerdcr, Washington 



"The chairman will arrange to give considerable time to making the work of 

 this general committee effective. The executive committee is selected in refer- 

 ence to the members being able to meet at reasonably frequent intervals. 



"The center of all war work is now in Washington. It is deemed important, 

 therefore, to have a small executive committee of members either resident in 

 Washington or who can attend necessary meetings on short notice. Questions 

 arise in war time which must l)e settled at once, and it would be impossible to 

 transact business with a large and scattered committee, as ours must naturally be 

 in order to represent all the forestry interests of the country. 



".\n important function of the war committee is to be the spokesman on matters 

 of national importance in which the profession of forestry is concerned. The 

 need of such a committee was recently voiced in a resolution of the Society at 

 the recent Pittsburgh meeting. Our main object should be to bring together 

 every member of the Society in war work. If the vSociety is to be most useful, 

 it must be prepared for concerted action. We are confronted at this time with 

 a number of big problems, one of which is the wood-fuel campaign; another, the 

 vocational training of forest engineers and timber workers for the needs of the 

 .A.rmy. By means of this committee the Society of .Xmerican Foresters can work 

 with the Forest Service in much that the latter is now called upon to do. 



