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MEMBERS OF THE FOREST REGIMENT 



These men, many of whom are newly arrived, lined up for inspection at the camp on the grounds of the American University, Washington, D. C. 

 They come from all parts of the United States and are keen, efficient and skilled in forestry and lumbering. 



age. In the third place, the field force of the Forest 

 Service wanted to go. 



The last-named reason furnished a considerable 

 problem. At first it was understood that Mr. Graves 

 didn't care to have members of the Service leave their 

 work on the National Forests. They represented a 

 fundamental need at home. The organization so ably 

 started by Gifford Pinchot, upon whose broad founda- 

 tions Henry S. Graves had continued to build, had 

 become a permanent structure which had withstood a 

 good many storms. It was strong and no one who 

 had anxiously watched its growth wanted to see it 



weakened. To put its best men overseas threatened 

 just this weakness. 



It may be said, therefore, that Mr. Graves desired 

 to hold it intact. He had had a chance, during the 

 very earliest stages of the trouble with Mexico three 

 years before, to see what would happen. Then the 

 Forest field force, almost to a man, wanted to organize 

 itself into cavalry to sweep across the border. A 

 roster of available men with the records of the special 

 service for which each was fitted was in the hands of 

 the authorities at Washington. Only a word was 

 needed to put into the field a well-mounted, hard- 



Majo C. S. Chapman Captain Donn Skeels Fiust Lt. John B. Woods First Lt. Robert L. Deering 



Manager of the Private Lumber I-ogging Engineer and Professor of Of the Arkansas Land and Lumber Forest Examiner, United States 



Protective Associations of Western Forestry at the University of Mon- Company of Malvern, Arkansas. Forest Service, stationed at Albu- 



Oregon. tana. querque, New Mexico. 



