On "Leave lor Study" with Weyerhaeuser

Forestry Reseasch Department

Centralia, Wash., Oct. 29-Dr. Michael Afanasiev, forestry professor at Oklahoma A & M college, is spending a three and onehalf month "leave for study" with Weyerhaeuser Timber company's forestry research department here.

The likeable 53-year-old professor will work for Weyerhaeuser until December 1, when he will return to the Oklahoma school and resume research activities and teaching forestry courses in mensuration (forest measurements) and seeding and l)Iantlng.

Afanasrev. who has been with Oklahoma A & M for 14 years, is enthusiastic about his present opportunity to visit and work in the Pacific Northwest and observe forestry and logging activities. Although he spends considerable time in the Centralia research offices, he gets plenty of outside work, too, recently spending two weeks at the company's Millicoma tree farm near Coos Bay, Oregon. He plans to see all the forestry he can before returning to Oklahoma and has been spending weekends visiting experimental forests and forest nurseries. is big business in all the northern to the Pacific with the exception

"It is good for teachers to work in the field as much as possible," says Afanasiev. "In this way we keep up with techniques and methods-remain close to practical forestry."

The professor has visited and worked in many forest areas in the U. S. and has this to say about Weyerhaeuser and the Pacific Northwest: "Everything is on a bigger scale out here. Weyerhaeuser Timber company is doing a splendid job in practical forestry and forestry researchand this isvery important with the variety of problems that foresters are facing today."

A 1933 grad'r*ate of Cornellrrniversity, Afanasiev majored in forestry and, after 3 years of graduate work, received his PhD. in that subject. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and Sigma Xi, honorary research society.

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