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A year later he was transferred to the Coeur d’Alene National 
Forest, and in January, 1913, received his present assignment. 
Early in 1911 he wrote: 
“Since the career of mechanical engineer and of naval architect 
had ever seemed, throughout my college course, so equally entic- 
ing that a decision between them was exceedingly difficult, it was 
perhaps only natural that after graduation I should have clutched 
eagerly the birchen rod of the school teacher. For two years I 
was instructor of mathematics and physics at Williston Seminary, 
Easthampton, Mass. Having thus given myself ample time for 
choosing between the above-mentioned careers, I promptly entered 
the Yale Forest School, where I spent another two years in trying 
not to remember with what contempt I had, as an undergraduate, 
looked upon all members of the graduate departments of the Uni- 
versity. Last March I passed through the ordeal of Civil Service 
examinations with sufficient success to be ordered westward, in 
July. Ever since I have been contentedly busy on the Helena 
National Forest, a very scattered area of some nine hundred 
thousand acres, lying anywhere from one to forty miles from the 
city of Helena, Mont. My work has been as diverse as is usual 
in this line of activity—including timber-estimating, land classifi- 
cation, surveying, mapping, and trying to remember which side 
of a horse it is more orthodox to attempt to ascend—but the 
major part of my time has been devoted to the Boulder Nursery, 
where I serve as chief nursemaid to some four million infant pines 
and firs.” 
He is a Republican—“probably progressive.” He is a member 
of the Episcopal church. 
He has written: A new method of constructing volume tables, 
For. Quart., June, 1912. 
Charles R. Clark 
Business address, Dillon, Mont. 
Home address, Carthage, II. 
United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Charles Rollin Clark was born December 13, 1881, in Carthage, IIl., 
the son of Lot Bozarth Clark, who was in the first class graduated at 
the University of Illinois, and Matilda Jane (Jackson) Clark. His father 
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