Oil: AMIJL'ICAy fUh'E^T Vi.VG'/.VA'A'A'.S L\ /•'A'.LVCA' 415 



work that the author of tliis article Wii.< Woolscy. Jr.. mid sudi cxjR'rienced 



sent to France in the summer of 1917. lumhcrmm ,i> Majms (i. A. Kclh'v and 



He was accompanird hy Caiitain r)ar- IJ. A. .InhiiMin.i>r ( )rc_:()ii. 1 1 has lu'ovcd 



i-iiiL:1nn Miiort' who is (•(Uincctrd wiili |)(i>>ilil(' to ndapt 1 he mililai'v ni'^iini/.a- 



ihc Auii'rican Mummiiii n\' Natural His- tinii to thr imhistrial iircd> of lund)er' 



tory, and wlio rendered very valuahlo iii^;. so tliat onr liiid> t hi' coniiuissioned 



service hotli in this ])r('liminai'y work in olliccrs lillini:' tlir \ariou> supervisory 



Fraiu-c. and since in hamlliuL:' inipoi'- posit ions in charizc of |()^■li■inL;■ and niill- 



taiit worl-: as a niondirr of the forr-try in.Li' <iprration>. and tlio noncommis- 



statf there. sioiicil olliccrs and pri\atc> acting," as 



I'odav there are in France ahout >aw\-cr> and cd^crs in the mill: or as 



Coiirti/.Si/ of Undi'Twijod and i nderwuud 

 Roadside trees near tlie French battle front, somewhere between the Marne and the Ourcq, afford 

 shelter for American cavalry 



9000 skilled forest workers in addition 

 to several thousand men organized as 

 hiiihway engineers and as lahor troops 

 to aid in the forestr}' operations. The 

 forestry troops are organized as a part 

 of the Corps of Engineers. The senior 

 officers of the regiments are regular 

 army officers, Colonid J. A. Woodrulf, 

 Colonel ^Mitchcl. an<l Lientenant Colo- 

 nel Marks. The other officers were se- 

 lected for their skill and experience in 

 forestry and lumhering. In the head- 

 quarters office one finds such distin- 

 guished foresters as Lieutenant Colo- 

 nel ^^'. 1>. Greeley and ^lajor T. S. 



sawyers, swampers, and drivers in the 

 woods: or as l)lacksniiths. stahlemen, 

 and sup})ly men at the camps. 



These are the men who are producing 

 the ])iling for our great dock extensions 

 at several of the ports placed at our dis- 

 ]»)sal hy the French, the hundreds of 

 thousands of railroad ties for the main 

 lines of communication and the tem- 

 porary lines behind the l)attle front, the 

 many thousands of ttdephone poles 

 needed to perfect the communications 

 between our different fighting units, 

 the almost limitless ([uantity of heavy 

 road pla]d<s used in repairinu- roads for 



