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entire work. Geo. L. Wood has been commissioned as Major in the capacity of 

 lumber operator. Swift Berry, of District 5, as a logging engineer. W. H. Gib- 

 bons as assistant logging engineer. Prof. Donald Bruce, of the University of 

 California, is in charge of a party of six forest assistants to do timber recon- 

 naissance work in France. Professor Woolsey has been designated as timber 

 negotiator. A. S. Peck, of the Forest Service, has been commissioned as Major 

 to act in the capacity of organization expert. Fred B. Agee as trained (main- 

 tenance) clerk. Coert Du Bois, district forester in charge of the National Forests 

 of California, has been selected to serve as Major on the regimental staff and to 

 aid in the organization and equipment of the regiment. The remaining officers 

 are as follows : 



Majors in command of battalions: R. E. Benedict, assistant forester in the 

 Forest Branch of British Columbia, and C. S. Chapman, manager of the private 

 timber protective associations of western Oregon. 



Captains : Edward S. Bryant, forest inspector, U. S. Forest Service, stationed 

 at Washington, D. C. ; Inman F. Eldredge, forest supervisor of the Florida Na- 

 tional Forest, stationed at Pensacola, Fla. ; J. D. Guthrie, forest supervisor of 

 the Coconino National Forest, stationed at Flagstaff, Ariz.; Evan W. Kelly, 

 forest examiner, U. S. Forest Service, stationed at San Francisco; John Lafon, 

 assistant forester in charge of timber operations, Forest Branch of British Co- 

 lumbia; David T. Mason, professor of forestry at the University of California; 

 W. N. Millar, professor of forestry at the University of Toronto; Barrington 

 Moore, a private forester from New York City; Arthur C. Ringland, forest 

 inspector, U. S. Forest Service, stationed at Washington, D. C. ; Dorr Skeels, 

 logging engineer and professor of forestry at the University of Montana. The 

 three captains taken from university professorships are, it is stated, chosen be- 

 cause of their extensive past experience in practical lumbering and other woods 

 work. 



First Lieutenants: Risden T. Allen, of the Allen-Medley Lumber Company. 

 Devereux, Ga. ; M. S. Benedict, forest supervisor of the Sawtooth National 

 Forest, stationed at Hailey, Idaho; Robert L. Deering, forest examiner, U. S. 

 Forest Service, stationed at Albuquerque, N. Mex. ; Clarence R. Dunston, lum- 

 berman, U. S. Indian Service, stationed at Dixon, Mont. ; D. P. Godwin, forest 

 examiner, U. S. Forest Service, stationed at San Francisco; J. G. Kelly, lumber- 

 man, of Portland, Ore. ; Eugene L. Lindsay, forest examiner, U. S. Forest Serv- 

 ice, stationed at Washington, D. C. ; E. C. Sanford, forest supervisor of the 

 Idaho National Forest, stationed at McCale, Idaho ; H. C. Williams, who recently 

 resigned from the supervisorship of the same forest; Stanley L. Wolfe, forest 

 examiner, U. S. Forest Service, stationed at Washington, D. C. ; J. B. Woods, 

 of the Arkansas Land and Lumber Co., Malvern, Ark. ; Herman Work, deputy 

 forest supervisor of the Caribou National Forest, stationed at Montpelier, Idaho. 



Second Lieutenants : H. R. Condon, forester with the Pennsylvania Railroad, 

 Philadelphia ; S. H. Hodgman, logging camp foreman with the Potlatch Timber 

 Co., Potlatch, Idaho; W. H. Gallaher, forest examiner, U. S. Forest Service, 

 stationed at San Francisco ; J. W. Seltzer, forester with the New Jersey Zinc 

 Co., Franklin, N. J. ; H. B. Shepard, forester with the Lincoln Pulp Co., Bangor, 

 Me. ; E. F. Wohlenberg, forest examiner, U. S. Forest Service, statrioned at 

 Flagstaff, Ariz. 



