VI PREFACE 



Capitaine Fresson, Maurice, Officier de Liaison aupres du Delegue 

 Americain au Comite Interallie des Bois de Guerre. 



Capitaine Vantroys, Henri, Inspecteur Adjoint des Eaux et Forets, 

 Membre de la Commission Forestiere d'Expertises. 



Capitaine Oudin, Auguste, Inspecteur Adjoint des Eaux et Forets, 

 Membre de la Commission Forestiere d'Expertises. 



Capitaine Roux, Edgar, Inspecteur Adjoint des Eaux et Forets, Ad- 

 joint a M. le General Chevalier. 



Capitaine Rive, Andre, Garde General des Eaux et Forets, Membre de 

 la Commission Forestiere d'Expertises. 



Capitaine Hurteau, Henri, Garde General des Eaux et Forets, Membre 

 de la Commission Forestiere d'Expertises. 



Capitaine Coulon, Jean Pierre, Membre du Bureau de la Centre des 

 Bois de Bordeaux. 



Lieutenant Girault, Pierre, Garde General des Eaux et Forets, 

 Membre de la Commission Forestiere d'Expertises. 



Lieutenant Sebastien, Maurice, French Delegue, C. I. B. G. 



Lieutenant Detre, Leon, Adjoint au Bureau du Delegue Americain au 

 Comite Interallie des Bois de Guerre. 



Capitaine Fresson and Lieutenant Detre lal)ored assiduously in my 

 own office on the Executive Committee of the Interallied War Timber 

 Committee. Lieut.-Col. Parde and Commandant Hickel gave much per- 

 sonal help, and Commandant Hirsch, Director of the Bureau des Vege- 

 teaux Combustibles under the Ministre de I'Armement, assisted in the 

 purchase of manufactured cordwood. 



The local French officers in charge of forests and conservations at all 

 American operations everywhere in France gave the utmost help. 



During this allied campaign cooperation was the key to final victory. 

 To General Lord Lovat, K. T., K. C. V. O , K. C. M. G., C. B., D. S. O., 

 Director of Forestry of the British Expeditionary Forces; Colonel John 

 Sutherland, C. B. E., Assistant Director of Forestry and British Repre- 

 sentative on the C. I. B. G.; Major Viscount de Vesci, who served on the 

 C. I. B. G. after the armistice; General MacDougall, C. B., Chief of the 

 Canadian Forestry Corps; General White, C. M. G., in charge of C. F. C. 

 operations in France; Lieut.-Col. Lyle, the Canadian member of the 

 C. I. B. G.; and to Commandant Parlongue, Belgian delegate to the 

 C. I. B. G., thanks are due for hearty cooperation and assistance in a 

 campaign for timber supplies which overshadowed for the time being the 

 management and preservation of French forests. To those who worked 

 in the World War this spirit of cooperation has left the pleasantest of 

 memories. Many whose names are not given here gave freely to help 

 the American E. F. As a matter of fact these very efforts, which helped 

 to gain the victory for the allied cause, were detrimental to the forests of 



