undertaken, definitely and aggressively. This became the major objective 

 of the Committee. Initial emphasis was to be directed toward restoration 

 of commercially important white pines for medium and high -hazard rust 

 areas. Attention was also to be directed toward those white pine species 

 important to watersheds and wildlife, as well as toward those of great 

 aesthetic and ornamental value. 



Next, an 18-man committee embodying wide coverage of the world's 

 white pine species was assembled. 



Finally, the time and place of the Advanced Study Institute on 

 Biology and International Aspects of Rust Resistance in Forest Trees, 

 set for August 1969, at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, U.S.A., 

 was chosen as a particularly advantageous time and place to hold first, 

 organizational meetings of the Committee. 



The report on Committee and Subcommittee organization, meeting 

 preparations, meeting action, and Subcommittee recommendations follows: 



COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 



As mentioned above Chairman Bingham was appointed by Working Group 

 Chairman Gerhold in late 1967. Bingham, working with a volunteer nucleus 

 of Committee members, then established two Subcommittees; (1) a Sub- 

 committee on Procurement and Exchange of (white pine) Breeding Materials, 

 H. B. Kriebel, U.S.A., Chairman, and (2) a Subcommittee on International 

 (white pine blister rust) Resistance Test Facilities, J. Gremmen, 

 Netherlands, Chairman. Then, working with the two subcommittee chairmen 

 additional Committee Members, each with special qualifications for per- 

 forming subcommittee functions, were appointed. Present Committee 

 staffing is as shown below; additional members may be added as needed. 



A. Committee Chairman 



R. T. BINGHAM, U.S. Dep. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain 

 Forest £ Range Exp. Sta., Forestry Sciences Laboratory, P.O. Box 

 469, Moscow, Idaho 83843, U.S.A. 



B. Subcommittee on Procurement and Exchange of Breeding Materials 



1 Editor's note: Later in 1969, E. Z. Callaham, Leader of IUFEO 

 Section 22, with the concurrence of E. Bj'drkman, Leader IUFRO Section 24, 

 E. D. Gerhold, Chairman of the Inters ectional Working Group, E. T. Bingham 

 and E. B. Kriebel, elevated the Subcommittee on Procurement and Exchange 

 of (white pine) Breeding Materials to full Section 22 Committee status, 

 as a new IUFEO Section 22 Committee on Breeding of White Fines. Eere, as 

 well as serving needs of the White Pine Blister Rust Committee of 

 Gerhold' s Inters ectional Working Group on Genetic Eesistance of Forest 

 Insects and Diseases, the new Committee will also serve white pine seed, 

 pollen and other needs of S other IUFEO Section 22 Working Groups. 

 are the Working Groups on (1) International Provenance Trials, 7. F-ouvarel, 

 Chairman, (2) Procurement of Seed for Provenance Eesearch, E. Bar- 

 Chairman, and (3) Eybridization among Species and Provenances , 

 A. deJamblinne, Chairman. 



