PERSONAL 



At a meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences on December 

 1 and 2, 1916, Frank Rush, supervisor of the Wichita National Forest, 

 read a paper on "The Past and Future of the Buflfalo." At this meet- 

 ing a committee was appointed to secure the passage of better laws in 

 Oklahoma for the protection of wild life. Mr. Rush was made chair- 

 man of this committee. 



William H. Kobbe, Yale Forest School, 11)1 4. later of the Philip- 

 pine Forest Service and of the Coconino National Forest, is now a 

 successful oil-well owner and dealer at Tulsa, Oklahoma. A paper by 

 him was presented at the January meeting in New York of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Mining Engineers. 



A tour is being organized by the Bureau of University Travel for 

 the Massachusetts Forestry Association for the coming summer. The 

 tour will cover all the National Parks of the United States, as well as 

 typical National Forests in each of the six western forest districts. 

 It will start from Boston on June 28, and last forty-four days. 



D. M. Lang, formerly lumberman in the Fourth District, has been 

 transferred to the Southwest District and assigned to the ofifice of 

 silviculture in Albuquerque, New ]\Iexico. 



Ranger W. L. Scofield has been assigned to a study of brush dis- 

 posal in the Southwestern District. At present he is conducting the 

 work on the large sale areas on the Coconino National Forest. 



Thomas P. Reid, scaler on the Tusayan National Forest, resigned 

 on March 3 to accept a lucrative position as forester with the Inter- 

 national Lumber Company of Minneapolis. Mr. Reid graduated at 

 Yale (Academic) in 1911 and at the Yale forest school in 1913 and has 

 had considerable experience in the Southwest where he made an en- 

 viable reputation as a Federal forest officer. He passed the scaler's 

 examination in 1916 and has had charge of a large sale on the Tusayan 

 Forest for the past two years. 



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