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Sitka spruce. This project also was in my field 

 of jurisdiction. Frank Heintzlemann, Regional 

 Forester in Alaska, was given the job and he put his 

 assistant, Charles Burdick, in charge. They con 

 tracted with a logger in Seattle to carry on the 

 operation. The logs were rafted to Puget Sound 

 sawmills and there sawed into suitable dimensions for 

 airplane construction. All told about seventy 

 million board feet of spruce logs reached Puget 

 Sound. The hemlock logs and inferior spruce logs 

 were sold to Alaska sawmills. 



Fry: Newton Drury tells in his interview how, in 

 patriotic fervor, lumbermen tried to get the 

 national parks opened for oitka spruce production 

 for airplanes in World War II. In the Forest Service 

 was there excessive pressure to cut more spruce in 

 Alaska during the war? 



Granger: ITot that I recall. 



Third Y/orld Forestry Congress 



Having been denied by a penurious Secretary 

 of Agriculture the privilege of ^oin/r to Scandinavia 

 to study forest survey methods in 1930, I suddenly 



