PERSONAL 



Carlile P. Winslow has been appointed director of the Forest 

 Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., to succeed Howard F. Weiss, 

 resigned. 



Forest Assistant Wyman, who looked after the meteorological rec- 

 ords, insect control, and the herbarium at the Fort Valley Experiment 

 Station, was transferred to Missoula, Montana, March 22, where he 

 takes charge of insect control work for District 1. 



Numerous changes have been made in personnel in the Southwest- 

 ern District recently, especially as regards deputy supervisors. Deputy 

 Supervisor James H. Sizer has been transferred from the Apache to 

 the Tonto Forest ; Fred Arthur from the Manzano to the Gila Forest ; 

 Robert Munro from the Gila to the Datil Forest; Forest Examiner 

 Wales from the Datil to the Manzano; Deputy. E. G. Miller from the 

 Datil to supervisor of the Prescott; Ira T. Yarnall from the Santa 

 Fe to the Coconino Forest; and L. B. Maxwell, promoted from grazing 

 assistant on the Coconino to deputy supervisor on this Forest. 



Supervisor Jno. D. Guthrie is taking an active part in the forma- 

 tion and training of the Flagstaff Home Guards. He is adjutant- 

 captain of the troop, of which former Supervisor Fred Breen is 

 colonel and commanding officer. Many of the local forest officers are 

 members of the organization. 



Prof. A. B. Recknagel, of the Department of Forestry at Cor- 

 nell University, has been granted a year's leave of absence from 

 his university duties in order to accept the position of Forester to the 

 Empire State Forest Products Association. He will take up his new- 

 duties on the first of July, and will establish headquarters for the 

 association at Albany. The work which Professor Recknagel will 

 undertake marks a new departure in the practice of forestry by private 

 owners in the United States. The Empire State Forest Products 

 Association is made up of prominent lumbermen and paper manufac- 

 turers in New York. The members of the association own upwards 

 of one million two hundred thousand acres of timberland in the State. 

 The association at its last annual 'meeting decided to establish a 



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