PROFESSOR DUDLEY'S WORK FOR STANFORD ABRAMS 21 



his thoroughness and enthusiasm in his work, his broad interests and scholarly 

 attainments moulding the lives of his students. For none can come under 

 his influence without, at least unconsciously, acquiring higher ideals and 

 more serious purposes. 



During the summer vacations the pursuit of his botanical studies took 

 him into the mountains and forested areas of the state, where he was con- 

 stantly confronted with the great and shameless waste of our forest resources. 

 He thus became one of the pioneers in the movement toward conservation, 

 and rendered valuable service to the state and nation through suggestions 

 and advice to the Forest Service and other authorities. The establishment 

 of the California Redwood Park, a beautiful tract of forested land in our 

 neighboring mountains, set aside by the state primarily for the purpose 

 of preserving a forest of the coast redwood in its primitive conditions, was 

 accomplished largely through his efforts. And as secretary of the first park 

 commission he labored for its betterment and the establishment of a per- 

 manent policy in its management. 



But Professor Dudley saw that if the conserving of our forests was 

 to be placed on an intelligent and permanent basis it was essential that 

 young men be trained for the work, and that the people of the states 

 where the forests abound be educated to the necessity of scientific forestry; 

 he saw that fully nine-tenths of the nation's forests lay west of the con- 

 tinental divide, yet in all this region not one of the educational institutions 

 was training men for the scientific management of this vast wealth. He 

 therefore directed his energies toward the establishment of courses in forestry 

 at Stanford. For a number of years he planned toward this end, and finally, 

 just as success seemed probable, the fateful April 18th wiped out every 

 promising hope of immediate realization. Soon afterward he contracted a 

 serious illness which left him physically weakened. This hampered his 

 work, but not his enthusiasm, and he is now retiring from the regular 

 routine departmental duties in the hope that he may regain his health 

 sufficiently to complete his research studies on the western flora. 



Professor Dudley's students and his many other friends who have 

 known and followed his courageous and uncomplaining struggle against 

 disheartening obstacles hope that he may not only live to complete his 

 own studies, but that he may yet see young men trained at Stanford for 

 the scientific management of the vast forests of the West. 



