taineer's and forester's viewpoint, is a 

 paradise which the boys know how to 

 handle. They have maps that can be 

 relied upon, timber cruises that are 

 of the best, and a lire protection sys- 

 tem that is a model. But this is not 

 all: the "Trinity Forester" shows 

 plainly, from cover to cover, that 

 there is something- more, a spirit of 

 good fellowship and work, and a real 

 interest which is at the bottom of it 

 all. They are getting ready for tim- 

 ber sales up in the Trinity and when 

 these come, the office will find the 

 Trinity all in apple-pie order for busi- 

 ness, from marking to scaling. 



Boerker, '11, is on the Lassen and 

 is not willing to let the Trinity crew 

 beat him without a struggle. He has 

 a notion of the scientific in forestry, 

 and is even bringing Mayr's "Wald- 

 bau" into the discussion of forest 

 types. His views on properly nam- 

 ing these types as "zones" deserves 

 some attention. They are doing things 

 on the Lassen, too, to get ready for 

 up-to-date timber sales and they are 

 developing the best there is of fire 

 protection. 



Kollman, '12, is with the boys and 

 enjoying his ranger work. Better 

 come back and spend another winter 

 with us, Kollman. 



Z. L. Bliss, '05, for years the lost 

 man, is now located at Houston, Tex- 

 as, has nursery business down pat, 

 and is in City Park work. 



On New Years, a telegram brought 

 greetings from S'an Francisco, signed 

 by Peck, '05, 'Smith, '05, Strothman, 

 '10, Jotter, '09, Boerker, '11, Evans, 

 '10, Kotok, '11, Hill, '05, and S. S. 

 Stewart, '09. It was addressed to 

 Professor Roth, but that means all 

 of us; iso here's thanks and best wish- 

 es in return. 



Peck is still in District 3, holds 

 forth at Albuquerque, is married and 

 has a forester junior of which he has 

 good reason to be proud. He says he 

 just has to get off to San Franciisc-o 

 to get rid of "Manana" and the Mex- 

 ican spirit of rebellion. 



C. S. Smith is in charge of the Of- 

 fice of Products in District 6, and be- 

 lieves in Euca.lypts seasoned on the 

 Tiemann hot and cold plan (steam up 

 at the end); but lately his leaning has 

 been towards timber sales and 'more 



lively subjects, and the Club has rea- 

 son to believe that Smith has made 

 good in getting the timber people and 

 the foresters together on a common 

 basis. 



Kotok, '11, dropped in on his way 

 East. He is a real forester, in love 

 with the Shaista, is alert to everything 

 that is going on, and has forgotten 

 nothing. His experience in cruising 

 and survey on the Shasta Forest has 

 put a lot more self-confidence into Ko- 

 tok, regardless of the bronco who has 

 a particular love for sumimer saults' 

 and a little circus whenever Kotok 

 wants to mount. His crew made a 

 fine map, and cruised a large part 

 of the forest, and is getting ready for 

 sales of timber. Kotok has a new 

 plan for testing pine seed; put out 

 in the back-yard one peck of seed, 

 measure what the squirrels leave and 

 you have the per cent of poor seed per 

 peck. He tsays the beasts never make 

 a mistake. Kotok is careful and not 

 over confident about artificial seeding, 

 and in his talk to the Club he stuck 

 cloe to Se as the safe criterion to go 

 by. He also remembered the rela- 

 tion of Gc and Ge, and en'oyis the 

 application of his mathematics to the 

 problems of the "brush." "No, I am 

 not sorry," he says, "and if I did not 

 practice forestry for another day, my 

 experience would repay my having 

 taken the course." 



'Moody, '06, is still Assistant State 

 Forester of Wisconsin, but he is also 

 Professor of Forestry, teaching the 

 new Ranger School recently opened 

 at the University of Wisconsin. He 

 came over for a conference, told us of 

 the good work of reforestation and 

 protection, and of the excellent chan- 

 ces which Wisconsin has for building 

 up a valuable State Forest. Wiscon- 

 sin believes in forestry. She is buy- 

 ing up her waste and idle lands, and 

 converting them into forests. The 

 course at :he Ranker School is to be 

 a simple two year course with three 

 and one-half months at the college 

 and three and one-half months in 

 the woods making one school year, 

 the course beginning January 7. This 

 course under a man like Moody is go- 

 ing to make a bunch of valuable men. 



Hill, '05, is on the Sierra. He has 

 had a busy summer surveying and 



