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I decided that the best places to start were in the 

 South and Pacific Northwest. Organizationally the 

 project was within the field of activity of the regional 

 forest experiment stations, and their staffs were 

 available for advice and assistance, but the line 

 of direction was actually pretty straight from the 

 national director to the regional directors of the 

 Survey. 



First, I chose as my assistant director James 

 V. Girard, top logging engineer in the Forest Service, 

 with wide territorial experience. Then, for the 

 project in the South we got as regional director 

 I. F. Eldrddge, former member of the Forest Service, 

 then successfully managing a large sustained-yield private 

 forest in Georgia. In the Pacific Northwest we 

 obtained Horace J Andrews who had successfully 

 directed a forest land-use study in Michigan, and 

 who later became Regional Forester in Region Six. 



We first had to choose the method of conducting 

 the survey. In the South we decided to use the Finnish 

 type, consisting of parallel lines run across the 

 country with sample plots at stated intervals. As 

 I recall, in Finland the lines were seventeen miles 

 apart, but we chose a ten-mile interval, with sample 



