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often with a ranger, slept out under a giant hemlock or huge 
Douglas fir overnight and lived for the most part on trout and 
wild blackberries. In October, 1909, I went to Los Angeles 
with my mother and was best man at the wedding of my 
brother Henry. In December of the same year I estimated 
timber on snowshoes on the Whitman Forest in eastern Oregon. 
In the spring of 1910 I inspected timber sales and seed sowing 
operations on the Oregon National Forest near Mt. Hood. 
“In May, 1910, I went east to New Haven, Conn., where I 
was married on June 11. On the honeymoon trip west we 
stopped off at Salem, Ohio, and Cashmere, Wash., visiting 
relatives, before returning to Portland. During August, 1910, 
while the forest fires were at their worst, visited most of the 
National forests in Washington in a seed collecting campaign. 
In the fall of the same year inspected seed sowing operations 
on the Olympic, Columbia, and Oregon forests. In February, 
1911, lectured on timber sales at the Ranger School of the 
University of Washington at Seattle. While inspecting timber 
sales on the Colville Forest in northeastern Washington in June, 
I9II, received the offer of a position in Honolulu from the Gov- 
ernor of Hawaii. On July 25, 1911, entered upon the duties of 
commissioner of public lands and president and executive officer 
of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Territory of Hawaii. 
“During September, 1911, made the circuit of the Island of 
Hawaii on an official automobile trip with the Governor and 
Attorney General of the Territory and on the way back to 
Honolulu stopped off for some goat hunting on the almost 
uninhabited desert island of Kahoolawe. As president of the 
Board of Agriculture and Forestry, began a campaign for the 
' control of a serious infestation of the Mediterranean fruit fly 
and was instrumental in passing a dog quarantine regulation 
to prevent rabies from getting to the Islands. 
“Returned to Portland, Ore., during March, 1912, and 
resumed duties with the Forest Service as assistant district 
forester, District 6.” 
He was a messenger in the Citizens’ Guard of Hawaii during 
the revolution of 1905 and a trooper in the Mounted Reserves, 
Republic of Hawaii, at the time of annexation to the United 
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