land owners may even furnish a considerable part of 

 the cost. These annual clean-up days which can be 

 applied to organized as well as unorganized settle- 

 ments will add to civic pride in other directions if 

 (nee started. 



Col. W. B. Greeley to be Chief of Forest Service 



Secretary of Agriculture Selects Assistant Forester to 

 Succeed Henry S. Graves May 1. 



Secretary .Meredith has selected Col. W. B. Greeley, 

 Assistat Forester in the Forest Service, for chief for- 

 ester to succeed Col. Henry S. Graves on the latter 's 

 retirement May 1. 



Colonel Greeley is from California, a graduate of 

 the rniversity of California and the Yale Forest 

 School, and lias been in the Forest Service continu- 

 ously since 1904 except for two years of military 

 service with the American Expeditionary Forces. He 

 is 40 years old. 



In the Forest Service he has had long and varied 

 administrative experience. He has been advanced 

 through all the technical grades from the lowest to 

 his present position as assistant forester. His first 

 assignment was in the Southern Appalachians. From 

 1906 to 1908 he was Supervisor of the Sequoia Na- 

 tional Forest in California. 



After a short period of service in the Washington 

 office he was appointed District Forester in charge 

 of the National Forests of Montana and northern Ida- 

 ho, with headquarters at Missoula, Montana. In this 



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