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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1907 167 

He writes: “Porto Rico presents unusual interest for the 
forester just now, for, unless all signs fail, both the Forest 
Service and the Government of Porto Rico will soon need one 
or more trained foresters to direct the forestry operations which 
each seems destined to institute in the near future. Conditions 
in Porto Rico are ripe for the practice of intensive forestry 
from the start. Formerly well timbered, the Island is now only 
sparsely wooded. Not only have its inhabitants,—now number- 
ing 1,116,000 or 325 persons per square mile,—drawn freely 
upon this resource in the past, and even destroyed it to make 
way for agriculture and cattle raising, but considerable timber 
has also been exported. 
“A dense population, geographic isolation, short hauling dis- 
tances, a productive soil, a year round growing season, and an 
abundant native tree flora, not to mention exotics, constitute 
the materials at hand. The forest fire menace is negligible and 
frosts are unknown, although excessive precipitation, the trade- 
winds, and an occasional hurricane will have to be given con- 
sideration. The production of cabinet woods for export will 
have no place in Porto Rican forestry, since local consumption 
will take care of all that the lands available for forestry will 
produce. Wood for fuel is most urgently needed, also for posts 
and house piling, structural materials for native use, and for 
boxes and crates for the shipment abroad of the fruit and other 
products of the Island. 
“Altogether the working out of a successful forest policy to 
meet these various needs, as well as the demands for a protective 
cover to aid in the control of erosion, for shade along roads 
and in cattle pastures, and the like, holds out alluring possibili- 
ties for those who would enter a pioneer field.” 
He attends the Unitarian church and in politics is a Repub- 
lican. From December, 1902, to June, 1905, he served as 
private in Troop A (National Lancers), 1st Battalion Cavalry, 
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. At Yale he received an elec- 
tion to Sigma Xi. He is a member of the American Forestry 
Association and the Society of American Foresters, is a Mason 
and belongs to the Somerville Lodge, 917, Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks. 
