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associations of lumber manufacturers have had committeemen with power to act 

 in close consultation with the government departments for the last two months. 

 Practical specifications and reasonable requirements have been worked out and 

 agreed upon and arrangements made to give government orders the right of way. 

 Competent authorities estimate that this has resulted in a saving of millions of 

 dollars to the Government and contributed greatly to the national defense," 



A. W. Schorger has resigned from the Madison Laboratory to go into private 

 work along similar lines. 



3. Northern Rockies 



Fred R. Mason, lumberman, resigned from the Forest Service on July 25, 1917, 

 to enter the employ of the Polleys Lumber Company, of Missoula, Mont. Mason 

 has been with the Service since his graduation from Yale, in 191 1, and since 

 1914 has been a member of the logging engineering staff in the district office in 

 Missoula. His new duties will be along similar lines. 



H. N. Knowlton, in charge of products. District i, with headquarters at Mis- 

 soula, has been indefinitely detailed to the Washington office to assist on extra 

 work being done for the War Department. His place in the district office is 

 being temporarily filled by C. N. Whitney, of the Deerlodge Forest. 



4. Southwest, including Mexico, Central and South America 



H. H. Chapman, who holds the chair of Forest Management at Yale Uni- 

 versity Forest School, has been granted leave of absence on account of his wife's 

 health. He is now at Albuquerque, N. Mex., in charge of the district office of 

 silviculture. 



Forest Supervisor Don P. Johnston, who has been in charge of the Chiricahua- 

 Coronado National Forest for more than a year past, with headquarters at 

 Tucson, Ariz., was transferred about June 15 to the district forester's office 

 at Albuquerque as assistant district forester in charge of operation. Before 

 going to Tucson Mr. Johnston had been Supervisor of the Santa Fe and Gila 

 National Forests of New Mexico. He succeeds Assistant District Forester A. O. 

 Waha, who, after an experience of many years in the National Forests of the 

 Southwest, has been transferred to the Forester's office in Washington, D. C. 

 Mr. Johnston is succeeded at Tucson by Forest Supervisor Paul P. Pitchlynn, of 

 the Sitgreaves National Forest, with headquarters at Snowfiake, Ariz. Mr. 

 Pitchlynn, before being appointed Supervisor of the Sitgreaves Forest, had a 

 wide experience in various branches of technical work throughout the National 

 Forests of the Southwest. 



5. Pacific Coast, including Western Canada 



W. J. Van Dusen (B. Sc. F., Toronto, 1912), for the past four years in the 

 service of the B. C. Forest Branch at Victoria, and of late acting as assistant 

 forester, has been transferred to Vancouver to become district forester at that 

 point. 



C. A. McFayden (B. Sc. F., Toronto, 1912), formerly with the Dominion For- 

 estry Branch in British Columbia, is now district forester for the B. C. Forest 

 Branch at Fort George. 



