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Volume 26 Article 13 1-1-1938 Alumni Ames Forestry Club Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/amesforester Part of the Forest Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Ames Forestry Club (1938) "Alumni," Ames Forester: Vol. 26 , Article 13. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/amesforester/vol26/iss1/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ames Forester by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ALUMNI IO4 Nineteen Thirtry-ehght VIho9s Who And Why C. Svendby-1926 the wood pulp industry. I started in 1930, in a plant which was in Graduating from Iowa State in the construction stage and had the March 1926, Svendby went directly enviable opportunity of actually to the Mast Nursery Company in growing up with a new manufac- Davenport, Iowa where he was turing unit. From mill labor my employed until the late months of work progressed thru the labora- that year. He next collaborated tory control of manufacturing into with the Empire Forestry Com- engineering, construction, and fin- pany at Albany, N. Y. while with ally operation of one' unit of the this company he cruised extensive plant; after five years of produc- timber holdings in Newfoundland. tion work I took over the timber In 1928 he went nearly half way operations of the plant. around the world to Pullman, In 1937 I resigned to take a posi- Washington where he became an tion with National Gypsum Com- instructor in the Department of pany, to supervise the design of a Forestry and Range Management. $1,500,000 plant to manufacture in the State College. wood fiber board. In July 1934, Mr. Svendby ac- I believe the wood fiber board cepted a position with the Soil Con- field has a tremendous possibility servation Service, with which or- for any forester. A man who can ganizationttl am in he charge is now of employed. the Section combine forestry with engineering will find this game both interest- of Woodland Management and act- ing and gainful. ing in charge o£ the Section of Wildlife Management in the Soil + Conservation Service for Region L. R. Lessel-1912 ll, which comprises the States of Upon graduation in 1912, Mr. Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Lessel worked for a year as en- I am intensely interested in the gin,eer with the Milwaukee Rail- work which our Service is doing, way company. However, the "pine and especially the woodland phase, fever" got the best of him, and in because I feel that it has a very June, 1913, he went to Arizona as definite place in the coordinated Assistant Forest Ranger with the land-use program for every farm U. S. Forest Service. He now in the Pacific Northwest.9' holds the position of Forest super- + visor on the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. George Pecaro "Region Three, especially the My work sincle finishing school southern forests, are principally has been entirely associated with watershed forests, and upon looking C. Svendby G. Pecaro L. R. Lessel ¥iiii --¥= illap+_=T¥#ife=-ngi:- I. E. Farmsworth C. R. Toune Lyle F. Watts at the Roosevelt Lake I had an and its graduates shows clearly -estsawakening mean toward as to conservation what the for- for that it may be successfully applied in this country7'. watershed control.'9 "The Gila National Forest, with + its two large wilderness areas, is C. R. Towne-1925 unique in that it was the first na- Mr. Towne received his first ap- tional forest to recognize and s,et pointment in the U. S. Forest Ser- aside an area of this kind." vice soon after graduation. From + Timber Sale Ranger, he progressed C. Eugene Farnsworth-1926 through the positions of Timber Cruiser, Junior Forester, District Immediately after graduation, Forest Ranger, Senior Forest Ran- Mr. Farnsworth was appointed ger, Associate Forester in charge Junior Forester on the Targhee of planting shelterbeJt project, to National Forest in Idaho. He took Assistant Forest Supervisor, Sam leave o£ absence in old,er to attend Juan National Forest, the position Yale Forest School to obtain an which h,a now holds. M. F. degree, and after completing "My main interests in the Forest this work, again reported to the Seivice at the present time are Targhee Forest. In 1930, he re- administration of the National signed from the For,est Service to Forest and planting. Planting, I accept a position as instructor at am inclined to believe, will play a the New York State Ranger School more important role on the Na- and now holds the position of As- tional Forests and on our denuded sociate Professor and Acting Di- areas outside the forest boun- rector of that institution. "After spending almost eight daries as time goes on. Large areas adjacent to our National ye`ars at the Ranger School, I find Forests in the west are potential myself very much interest,ed in tdust bowls' if present abuses of forestry education, and especially our timber and grazing resources in the particular phase of it re- are continued" . presented by this school. During the 25 years the school has been + in existence 609 men have been Lyle F. Watts-1913 graduated. At present, the enter- Holding at present the position ing class is limited to 50 men. of Regional Forester in the North Although the idea of an intensive Central Region, Mr. Watts started one year course in forestry pro- with the U. S. Forest Service as bably developed from observations Field Assistant, moving through of the European educational sys- the duties of Timber Cruiser, F'or- ten, the experience of this school est Nurseryman, Forest Examiner, IO6 Nineteen Thirty-ehght Assistant Forest Supervisor, Forest been stationed at the Chippewa Supervisor, Regional Forest In- Branch station, the Upper Miss. spector, head of the School of For- Soil Erosion Experiment Station, estry of the Utah Agricultural Col- the Northern Plains Branch Station, lege, Research Silviculturist, and and the Prairie States Forestry Director of the Northern Rocky Project. Mountain Forest and Range Ex- His work in these various fields has included forestation, nursery perimentttAt present Station. the problem which problems, grazing management re- interests me most is that of mak- search, soil erosion and stream ing the National Forests of the flow studies, shelterbelt influences, North Central States fulfill their and ecology. He is at the present obligations in recreational use for time assigned to nursery and for- that Region. Thirty-five million estation studies in the Lake States, people, all potential users of the chiefly on the Nicolet, and Che- outdoors and all needing the bene- quamegon and Ottawa National fits of outdoor relaxation presents Forests. a problem in land use which is big 1\ enough for any one. That recrea- M. L. Merritt-1904 tional use must be had with a minimum of sacrifice of othe]- For a year after graduation, Mr. equa11y legitimate uses is clear. Merritt served an instructor in Timber production, wildlife r,es- Horticulture at Iowa State College. toration, watershed protection, use In 1905 he was appointed Assistant of domestic live'stock, and recrea- Forester in the Phillipine Bureau tion are all involved in the pro- of Forestry in the Phillipine gram. The highest form of land Islands, where he assisted in mak- use dictates that with few excep- ing the timber reconnaissance and tions such multiple us,~- will con- special studies of several timber tribute most to our national life.'' tracts of the Islands. In 1909, he + was transferred to the U. S. Forest S:rvice on the Mt. Baker National I. H. Stoekeler-1930 Forest in Washington and held the After receiving his masters de- position of Ass't Supervisor of the gree in 1931 Stoekeler worked Whitman National Forest in 1911. with an extensive timber survey From 1912 to 1916 he was Super- and grazing reconnaissance on the visor, Deschutes National For-est. Deschutes National Forest, in Ore- In 1921, Mr. Merritt was trans- gon. From there he went to the ferred to Juneau, Alaska, where Lake States Forest Experiment he held the position of Ass't Re- Station and Consolidated Water gional Forester in charge of Opera- Power and Paper Co., Wisconsin tions and Land. He returned to Rapids, Wis. Since July 1931, he Region 6 in 1934 as Ass't Regional has been with the Lake States Forester in Operation, in which Forest Experiment Station. He has position he is now working. J. H. Stoekeler R. McKinley M. L. Merritt "Right now my chief efforts are the Harney National Forest, Senior directed towards completing the Ranger on the Roosevelt National physical improvements most neces- Forest, and Chief of Acquisition sary for proper forest resources party on the Kisatchie in Louisiana, management in the National For- he finally became Ass't Supervisor ests of Region 6. Much o£ this ef- o£ the South Carolina and Croatan fort is aimed at maintaining the National Forest in South Carolina. high standards of conduct, per- His work at present is of General formance, and morale of which the Administration and Management Forest Service is so justly proud''. of Forest areas. Fire control and structural improvements are under + his supervision. ttThe major and most immediate Raymond M. McKinley-1927 problem on these Forests, the sol- One o£ Iowa State's very ,i-hter- ution of which is under my direct esting alumni is Raymond M. Mc- supervision, is the development of Kinley, o£ the class o£ 1927.