Seottle to Host 5th World Forestry Gongress, Aug. 29 - Sept. lO

Two-thousand forestry experts from more than 50 nations will meet for two weeks in Seattle, Wash., starting Aug.29, for the Fifth World Forestry Congress. This international meeting is the first Congress for which the United States has been host and the first ever held in the Western Hemisphere.

The foresters will hear 200 authorities speak on every aspect of forestry from surveying virgin timber lands to developing new uses for woods already reaching world markets. The Congress seeks to advance the science and practice of forestry through exchange of information and development of personal associations among' the professionals of forestry throughout the world. It seeks also to