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commercial tree studies in the Southern Appalachians. July 1, 
1905, to November I, 1906, was inspector of timber sales in . 
National forests in California. During that period, I directed 
the preparation of silvicultural working plans on portions of 
the Santa Barbara, Sequoia, Sierra and Tahoe National forests 
and supervised the marking and other timber sale activities on 
those forests. From November 1, 1906, to May 1, 1908, I had 
charge, as supervisor, of the Sequoia National Forest, California, 
area over three million acres. The work was chiefly organization 
of the administrative force and of fire protection in a vast, 
inaccessible, mountainous region.” 
He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and of 
the Graduate Advisory Board of the Yale Forest School. 
He has written: (With W. W. Ashe) White oak in the 
Southern Appalachians, Bull. U. S. Forest Service, about Jan. 
I, 1906. 
Walter B. Hadley 
Redlands, Calif. 
Walter Brooke Hadley was born September 7, 1877, in Dayton, Ore., 
the son of William Macy Hadley and Harriet (Fuson) Hadley. His 
father graduated from Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., in both the 
classical and scientific courses, was a professor of languages and sciences 
and held many positions of public trust. On his father’s side he is of 
English ancestry, being the grandson of Thomas Hadley and Lucinda 
(Macy) Hadley, both Quakers of early colonial stock. On his mother’s 
side he is of English and Welsh descent. He has two brothers: Ellis 
Fuson Hadley and Louis F. Hadley; and one sister, Elizabeth Macy 
(Hadley) Newhouse. 
He was prepared at the public schools of Dayton, Ore., and at the 
Academy, Newberg, Ore. In 1901 he received the degree of B.S. from | 
Pacific College, after which he took one year’s commercial work at 
McMinnville College, McMinnville, Ore. 
He was married September 30, 1907, in McMinnville, Ore., to Miss 
Amba Irene Daniels of McMinnville, daughter of Charles Franklin 
Daniels and Malissia Minerva (Kuns) Daniels. They have one daugh- 
ter, Mildred May Hadley, boérn March 19, 1909. A son, Macy Daniels 
Hadley, born October 29, 1910, died November II, 1910. 
Hadley was employed as forest assistant in the United States 
Forest Service from July 1, 1904, to September 15, 1908. Since 
leaving the Service he has been in very poor health, which has 
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