Complex sentence: He was chairman of a commission to examine the Adirondack forests and devise measures for their preservation in 1885, and in 1888 became editor and general manager of "Garden and Forest", a weekly journal of horticulture and forestry.
Split into simpler sentences: He was chairman of a commission to examine the Adirondack forests and devise measures for their preservation in 1885. In 1888 he became editor and general manager of "Garden and Forest", a weekly journal of horticulture and forestry.