52 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Wallace I. Hutchinson 
Business address, 519 Majestic Building, Denver, Colo. 
Residence, 1715 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colo. 
United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Wallace Irving Hutchinson was born January 30, 1881, in Wolfville, 
Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of John Robert Hutchinson and Charlotte 
Hutchinson. On his father’s side he is of English, and on his mother’s 
of Scotch descent. 
He was prepared at Horton Collegiate Academy, Wolfville, and in 
1901 received the degree of B.A. from Acadia University, Wolfville, 
Nova Scotia. 
He was married April 12, 1911, in Denver, Colo., to Miss Leila Collom 
of Denver, Colo., daughter of Martin H. Collom and Augusta L. Collom. 
Hutchinson entered the United States Forest Service July 1, 
1901. Upon graduation from the Yale Forest School in 1903 
he was appointed forest agent, which position he held until 
1905, serving in California, Nebraska, North Carolina, New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania. During that year he was forest 
assistant in the Service, and from then until 1909 he held the 
position of forester in the Philippine Bureau of Forestry in 
charge of the southern administrative district, which embraces 
the island of Mindanao and Jolo Archipelago. During 1909 he 
studied forest management, extension, etc., in the Federated 
Malay States, Burma, India, Ceylon, France, Austria~Hungary 
and Germany. In September, 1909, he received his present 
appointment of forest assistant in the Pike National Forest, 
Colorado. 
He is a member of the Baptist church. He is a Republican 
and a member of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
He has published: A Philippine substitute for lignum vitae, 
Bull. 9, Bur. For., Manila, P. I., 1908. 
Elers Koch 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Missoula, Mont. 
Residence, 420 Beckwith Avenue, Missoula, Mont. 
Elers Koch was born December 12, 1880, in Bozeman, Mont., the son 
of Hans Peter Gyllemburg Koch and Laurentze Koch, daughter of 

