H. A. Green, '11, says: "Priest River 

 country and the white pine for me." 



He is an ardent letter writer (to ?) 



and now and then one sifts through 

 here. Seed collection and running a 

 seed extractor seem to be Green's 

 forte. But, on the quiet, he says: "A 

 good reconnaissance job and a bit of 

 trout fishing are far more inspiring." 

 Green is a little peeved, because the 

 seed year was good and all was wiell, 

 but a bushel of cones did not pan out 

 a pound of seed, as it should accord- 

 ing to Bulletin X. 



Farquhar, '09, writes more legibly 

 (whatever that means); at least he 

 says he can read his own hand. It is 

 one of those character hands and we 

 all knew Farquhar had the "stuff," 

 character and spun'k to spare. He 

 has tackled the big job, that grave- 

 yard of "rep" in the service, Sllvics, 

 and is compiling, reporting, planning 

 and incidentally he is going to put 

 some trees on the land. Stick to it 

 Farquhar; your plans are good, and 

 the trees are needed. 



Clyde X.eavitt, '04, has quit the 

 Service to start one himself as For- 

 ester to the Conservation Commission 

 of Canada. Incidentally he will or- 

 ganize a fire service for the Railway 

 Commission. A big job for a big man. 

 Leavitt always liked to have a chance 

 at running his job himself, and he can 

 do it. The congratulations of the 

 Club, Leavitt; our thanks and well 

 wishes. Headquarters, Ottawa, Can- 

 ada. 



J. W. Stephen, '07, has accepted 

 the position of assistant professor of 

 forestry with Syracuse University, to 

 help teach in the new College of For- 

 estry. He will have charge of the 

 nursery work the remainder of this 

 year, and will teach silviculture next 

 year. Best of luck to you, Stephen. 

 Mr. Stephen has had considerable ex- 

 perience in teaching, and has been 

 with the New York state forest com- 

 mission since 1908. 



S. W. Strothman, '10, thinks a cor- 

 ner on the "California" National For- 

 est is a lot more attractive than a 

 1,000 miles of "muskeag" up in the 

 Hudson Bay country, dog sleds, 

 "pamigan," Indians and all. Good 

 taste Strothman; general agreement 



on that point, in spite of all the "in- 

 exhaustible" supply of the far North 

 Spruce. Strothman feels quite chesty 

 about his timber sale, and invites tile 

 Club to make an inspection tour to 

 verify. He claims all rules in silvicul- 

 ture, including la and IV-1-b, were 

 carefully adhered to, and if natural 

 reproduction does not come now, and 

 on the run at that, he is going to re- 

 model Gayer and add four more chap- 

 ters. We all hope the reproduction is 

 starting, and in any case the inspec- 

 tion is safe at this distance. 



Love joy went off again and mixes 

 "gosh all hemlock" with some excla- 

 mations of the Norwegian forest ex- 

 pert when he dodged brush along the 

 "donkey" line in Washington, as the 

 big log came sliding "quietly" through 

 the forest. Well, always glad to hear 

 from Lovejoy and the only right solu- 

 tion of the matter is that he come for 

 a visit, help celebrate and put the 

 case verbatim. Some of us are plan- 

 ning a tour of inspection for the 

 Olympic, so better get out the halibut 

 hook and a line for 25 Ib. salmon, 

 for they say that these animals even 

 crawl into the balsam brush and 

 spoil reproduction. 



J. R. Dickson, '08, is still clinging 

 closely to the brush in the "Riding 

 Mountains." Incidentally he likes to 

 go down to the metropolis (Winni- 

 peg) and watch the 50 Scotchmen 

 fresh from the old sod, teach the 

 "folks" of the N. W. "the Roarin' 

 Game" of "curling/ Of course these 

 good Scotchmen went home sadder 

 but wiser, for the international man 

 of the N. W. is it every time. Dick- 

 son says work is going nicely and they 

 are trying to make a lot of poach- 

 ers, timber thieves, etc. "perform in 

 captivity," just to make them feel 

 more at home. Incidentally he phi- 

 losophises whether the Anglo-Saxon 

 temperment is capable of developing 

 a forest policy. Ask Lovejoy and 

 his ranger, Dickson. Personally and 

 editorially, I think we can, as soon 

 as we can break up the combination 

 of politicians and (other) rascals. 



D. C. Birch upset some of the good 

 feeling over the latest efforts in "pea- 

 nut vender" statesmanship. The great 

 (?) protectors of the poor and be- 

 nighted people and stanch represent- 



