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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



LOUISIANA'S FORESTRY SUPERINTENDENT 



RD. FORBES has been appointed Superintendent of 

 Forestry of Louisiana by the Department of Con- 

 servation. 



The duties of the Superintendent of Forestry will be 

 to acquaint himself thoroughly with the forest conditions 

 of the state, and with all concerns in the lumbering busi- 



R. D. FORBES 



The newly appointed Superintendent of Forestry of the State Department of 

 Conservation of Louisiana. 



ness. As soon as the work can be organized, it is in- 

 tended to establish some form of fire protection in the 

 state, and to bring about co-operation between the De- 

 partment of Conservation and lumbermen and wood-lot 

 owners, and to encourage reforestation of denuded lands. 

 Mr. Forbes is a graduate of Williams College, Massa- 

 chusetts, 191 1, and of the Yale Forest School, 1913. He 

 has spent three years in the United States Forest Serv- 

 ice in Arizona, New Mexico and North Carolina, and 

 for the past fifteen months has been assistant forester of 

 New Jersey. 



JO. SETH, Assistant to the Solicitor of District No. 

 3, has resigned from the United States Forest Serv- 

 ice to accept appointment as Assistant United States 

 District Attorney at Santa Fe. Mr. Seth has been con- 

 nected with the District for six years. 



PENNSYLVANIA'S FORESTER SOLDIERS 



NATURAL pride is taken by the Pennsylvania Depart- 

 ment of Forestry in the patriotism of its foresters as 

 shown by enlistment in the army. The claim is made 

 that the Department has a larger proportionate showing 

 than any other branch of the state government. The 

 total number of foresters who have gone into military 

 service is 32, which is 43 per cent of the foresters who 

 were in the employ of the department when war was de- 

 clared. The operation of the draft will probably take 

 nine or ten more, which will leave the department with 

 less than 40 per cent of its normal field force of foresters 

 In addition to those enlisted three of the state's foresters 

 are serving as listing officers for the 20th Engineers (For- 

 est) and two ex-foresters are already in France with the 

 10th Engineers (Forest). 



E. A. Ziegler, formerly director of the State Forest 

 Academy, where state foresters are trained, holds a com- 

 mission as captain in the Coast Artillery and is instructor 

 in military mapping at Fortress Monroe. W. Gardiner 

 Conklin, formerly in charge of reforestation and nursery 

 work, has a commission as first lieutenant with the 20th 

 Engineers (Forest) now in process of formation. J. W. 

 Seltzer, formerly forester in charge of the state forest at 

 Coburn, is a first lieutenant with the 10th Engineers 

 (Forest). E. H. Smith, formerly in charge of the Bald 

 Eagle State forest near Williamsport, is a first lieutenant 

 with the 316th Infantry. 



NAVY DEPARTMENT NEEDS GLASSES 



1%/T EMBERS of the American Forestry Association 

 *"* are asked to donate to the Navy Department any 

 binoculars, spy glasses, or telescopes they wish to give. 



No supply of these glasses can be purchased in the 

 country and although some 3000 were given by citizens 

 in answer to a recent appeal, many thousands more are 

 needed. 



Glasses should be securely tagged, giving the name 

 and address of the donor and sent to Hon. Franklin D. 

 Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, care of 

 Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. 



Those accepted will, if possible, be returned after 

 the war. 



Q TRIKING evidence of the lasting qualities of wooden 

 S' ship comes in the following Associated Press dis- 

 patch from Copenhagen : "In the Danish sailing fleet are 

 16 vessels each more than a hundred years old. The 

 oldest is the Constance, registered at Nalskov, and built 

 at Aroe in 1723. This vessel has seen ten generations 

 of Danish kings, and was already 100 years old when the 

 first steamer was built." 



HP HE Extension Service of the New York State College 

 * of Forestry is receiving numerous calls for help in 

 marking trees to be cut for fuel in the New York wood- 

 lots. In accordance with its agreement announced early 

 in the fall, men are being sent throughout the state on 

 this work. 



