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winters working in town. Was also connected for a short time 
with the Imperial Oil Company of Vancouver, B. C.” 
He is a member of the Unitarian church and in politics is 
a Progressive Republican. He is a member of the University 
Club of North Yakima. 
Nils B. Eckbo 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Ogden, Utah 
Home address, Slemdal per Kristiania, Norway 
Nils Bonnevie Eckbo was born February 4, 1885, in Kristiania, Norway, 
the son of Nils Henrik Eckbo and Martha (Jensen) Eckbo. He is a 
descendant of the Vikings. He has four brothers and a sister: Evind 
Eckbo, a graduate of Aars and Voss’s College and Kristiania University, 
a supreme court lawyer; Axel Eckbo, a graduate of Kristiania Business 
College; Leo, a graduate of Hauges Minde College and a military col- 
lege, now a captain in the army; Olaf, a graduate of Aars and Voss’s 
College and the University of Berlin, now an electrical engineer; and 
Gunnvor Eckbo. , 
He was prepared at Aars and Voss’s and attended Ragna Nielsen 
College, Norway, spent one year lumbering and then graduated from the 
Stenkjar Forest Academy, Norway, in 1904. Later he was engaged in 
lumbering in Maine and New Hampshire. 
He is unmarried. 
Eckbo has been in the United States Forest Service since 
July, 1907. He is now forest examiner on Uinta National 
Forest, with headquarters at Provo, Utah. He writes: “From 
July, 1907, to July, 1908, did forestry work in the Northwest 
and California. From July, 1908, to July, 1909, studied forestry 
in Japan, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. From July, 1909, 
to July, 1912, did forestry work in various parts of District 
4—in Idaho, Utah and Arizona. My experiences since leaving 
Yale have been in forestry lines and in the study of Mormonism, 
the Bible, creative evolution and down to the ‘Fearsome 
Creatures of the Timberwoods’ by Cox.” 
He is a member of the American Forestry Association. 
He introduced the peavy or cant hook into Norway by an 
article in Tidsskrift for Skogbrug (a forestry professional 
paper) in 1904. He has also written short articles for the 
Forestry Quarterly and some of the lumber journals. 
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