822 JOURXAL OF FORESTRY 



C. A. Lyford has resigned from the firm of Clark & Lyford, Ltd., of Van- 

 couver, B. C, to become the chief forest engineer of James D. Lacey & Co., 

 with headquarters at Seattle, Wash. 



The University of California's Division of Forestry has been hard hit by the 

 war. D. T. Mason and Donald Bruce have gone to France with the Tenth 

 Engineers. M. B. Pratt has resigned, leaving only Mulford and Metcalf of the 

 original stafif. 



C. Stowell Smith, hitherto Chief of Products in District 5 of the Forest Serv- 

 ice, has been appointed Secretary of the Cahfornia Sugar and White Pine As- 

 sociation, with headquarters at San Francisco. 



Engineer R. R. Randall has been detailed to District 6 from the Washington 

 office, to handle water-power business in the absence of Mr. Lundgren, and 

 assist in road work. 



Among the forest officers of District 6 who have enlisted in the loth Reserve 

 Engineers (Forest) are the names of Deputy Supervisor W. K. Ramsdell of 

 the Wenatchee, Rangers Raymond Thompson and Harry Elliott of the Colville, 

 and C. J. Kraebel of the Columbia. 



Captain Leonard Lundgren and H. S. Ward, Master Engineer Junior Grade, 

 of the District 6, have been called into active service with the First Separate 

 Battalion Oregon Engineers. 



Forest Examiner W. H. Gibbons of District 6 left for Washington, D. C, 

 in July, on his way to France for professional forestry work in connection with 

 the loth Reserve Engineers (Forest) Regiment, which is made up of foresters 

 and woodsman. 



Forest Examiner C. W. Gould, of District 6, has been detailed to the Forest 

 Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. Moritz L. Mueller, formerly of 

 Portland, has also gone to Madison for special work in the laboratory. 



6. Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Orient 



A. S. Fisher is holding down the position of Director of Forestry in the 

 Philippines. W. F. Sherfesee is still in China (June 29). 



L. R. Stadtmueller, who is with the China Import and Export Lumber Co., 

 Shanghai, is on a three months' trip in the interior of China investigating the 

 lumber situation. 



A Forest Regiment to France 



The roster of commissioned officers in the "forest regiment," or, as the War 

 Department designates it, the Tenth Reserve Engineers (Forest), has been 

 announced and includes two regular army officers, fifteen foresters from the 

 U. S. Forest Service and two from the Forest Branch of British Columbia, one 

 lumberman from the Indian Forest Service, and thirteen foresters and lumber- 

 men taken from private or institutional work. 



The War Department has designated Lieut. Col. James A. Woodruff, of the 

 Engineer Corps, to organize and command the regiment, and Beverly C. Dunn, 

 Captain of Engineers, as Adjutant. W. B. Greeley, Assistant Forester, in charge 

 of the Branches of SilvicuUure and Research, U. S. Forest Service, has been 

 commissioned as Major in charge of lumber operation and supervision of the 



