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Forestry Meeting in San Francisco

More than 200 federal, state and private foresters attended the annual meeting of the Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters, at the Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco, on January 21 to hear a program on the "Outlook and Trends in Forestry for Cali{ornia."

Melvin E,. Barron, Goose Lake Box Co., Reno, Nevada, vice chairman of the section, presided.

The follorving subjects \\rere discussed : "The Outlook for C:rlifornia's Timber Supply," by S. B. Show, regional forester, U. S. Forest Service, San Francisco; "The Outlook for the Redwood Industry," by Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco; "The Outlook for the Pine Industrv," by Waller Reed, forester, Collins Pine Co., Chester, Calif., and "Utilizaticttt Trends," by Walter S. Johnson, president of the American Box Corporation. San Francisco.

Other speakers on the program were: Stephen N. Wyckoff, director, California Range and Experiment Station, Berkeley; Rolland Vandergrift, legislative auditor, Sacranrento; De Witt Nelson, state forester, Sacramento; W. S. Rosecrans, chairman, state board of forestry, Los Angeles; arid Prof. Myron E. Krueger, department of forestry, University of California, Berkeley.

Following the sessions, a banquet was held and De Witt Nelson presided.

Appointed Mcncrger

H. A. Collins, Captain in the United States Army Air Corps, who has been on active duty for the past five years, and has seen combat service in both the European and Pacific theatres, is norv released from service and will take charge of the Southern California interests of the Rockport Redwood Company and Kilpatrick & Company, beginning February 15.

He is well known in the Pacific Northwest from his pre\,r'ar days, and has a large acquaintance with lumber producers in that area: wheel, and used a muley sarv. On his mother's side several ancestors were in the sawmill business in Pennsylvania.

W. D. "Charlie" Haskell is manager of Brush Industrial Lumber Co. Bill Dugan is yard superintendent.

& JOHNSON,

I Montgomery Street 1800 Mcrshcrll Ave. SAN FRANCISCO 4, CALIF. STOCKTON. CAIIF.

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