SERVICE NOTES 



Lieut. Clifford A. Laflin, who prior to the war was 

 draftsman in the State Forester's office, is now with the 

 Army of Occupation at Bendorf, on the Rhine. On 

 January 27, 1919, the Croix de Guerre was awarded to 

 Lieut. Laflin. 



Sergeant L. R. Beatty, formerly ranger at Orr, Minn., 

 writes from Arveyres, Gironde, Prance, that his com- 

 pany is still awaiting orders to sail for the States. After 

 two months of patient waiting, the boys are becoming 

 restless, and the one big question is "Where are all 

 those ships that Uncle Sam built in 1918?" 



Lieut. H. C. McDuffee has had some interesting ex- 

 periences with the Commission appointed to estimate 

 the forest damage in France. He traveled all over 

 northern France, and reported to Paris the results of 

 the examination. Lieut. McDuffee has been with the 

 Balloon Service in France; he expects to sail soon for 

 "the good oldU .8. A." 



Practically all of the boys who left with the 10th 

 Engineers (Forest) later combined with the 20th En- 

 gineers have now returned to this country, after 

 eighteen months service in the forests of France, get- 

 ting out timber products for the Allies. They have 

 nothing but praise for the systematic, business-like 

 manner in which the French manage their woodlands; 

 but in all other respects "there's no place like home." 



The legislature at this writing has passed one forestry 

 measure, the leasing of Douglas Lodge and cottages 

 by the Forestry Board for a term of years. The addi- 

 tion to the Park of fourteen sections has a good pro- 

 spect of being enacted into law. The bills with refer- 

 ence to appropriations have not as yet been acted on. 



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