East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-07
NEW FORESTERS
ARE NAMED.
MEN IN CHARGE OF
SIX FIELD DISTRICTS.
Chief Forester Clifford Plnchot Names
Six SubOrdinates-All Said 10 BE
Men of Technical Iralning-E. Il.
Allen VIII BE In Charge of District
In Which Oregon Is Located.

The district foresters who will be
I'm charge Of the six field districts OF
the forest service, beginning January
!. 1908, have been selected by United
States Forester Clifford Pinchot. They
are as follows: District /. w. b.
Greeley, Missoula, Mont; district 2,
Smith Riley, Denver, Col. district 3,
A. Ringland, Albuquerque, N. NJ;
district 4, Clyde Lesvltt, ogden.
Utah; district 8, F. Il. olmsted, San
Francisco, Cal; district 8. e. T. AL
len, Portland, Ore.
1t was the original intention to To-
cate the headquarters Of district at
Salt Lake. The change to Ogden was
made on account Of advantages as re-
CARDS convenience and economy Of
living afforded by that city.
Men OF Training.
All the district foresters are men
of technical training and tried prac
teal ability in forest matters Most
OF them have been members OF the
forest service for several years. They
have risen I'm the service through
successive promotions. They are ia
miliar with national forest work, with
the west, and with the western peo-
pie Recently they have been dealing
In their daily work with the techni
cal and business problems over which
they will have larger and more re-
sponsible supervision under the new
assignments.
Mr. Greeley was born in New York
In 1879 and In 1890 moved to Califor-
mia, which Is still his legal residence.
He is a graduate Of the University OF
California. and OF the Yale Forest
school receiving the degree Of Master
OF Forestry from the latter. in 1904
After working with the L. 5. geolog-
ical survey he entered the forest SER
vice through civil service examination
July /, 1904. His last position was
that of supervisor OF the Sequoia
national forest, California.
Mr. Riley was born in Maryland
in 1878. He received his education
In the Sherwood Friends school in
Montgomery county. and In the pub
lie schools Of the District OF Column
bia. He entered the forest service
as a student assistant in May. 1900.
and has since held successfully the
positions Of forest assistant, forest in
spector, forest supervisor and associ-
6te chief of the office OF forest man
aEoment
Mr.. Ringland was born I'm New
York in 1882. After graduating from
the Montclalr high school he became
student assistant in the forest serv-
ice in 1900 He has Since held tho
positions Of assistant forest expert !
forest assistant, chief Of the office of
reserve boundaries, chief of the sec
tion of settlement, chief of the office |
OF lands and assistant forester.
Mr.. Leavitt is native OF Michigan |
where he was born in 1879. He en- |
tered the forest service as a student !
assistant in 1903, and has since pass
ed through the grades Of forest asis-
tant, assistant chief of the office of |
organization, and chief of the office !
of organization.
Mr.. Olmtead was born i'm Hartford, |
Conn. He was graduated from Yale |
University in 1894. After following |
engineering and Typographical work, |
he spent the year 1S97-9S I'm the Har- |
ward Graduate school of Forestry |
and continued the study of forestry |
in Germany and India In 1858 and |
1899. Since then he has held the |
positions of forest assistant. chief of !
the division of products, chief of
boundaries, chief of Inspector for the
service, and chief inspector for dis
trict 3.
Mr.. Allen entered government SER
vice as a ranger under the general !
land office in 1898, the first year that
the reserves as they ware then call
ed were under administration. In
a student assistant and became a
field assistant through civil service
examination in 1900. In 1901 he was
transferred to the department of the |
interior to become special Inspector
Of timber sales and trespass contro-
versies in the Blask Hills, South Da-
kota In 1903 he was transferred |
back to the forest service when, in
1905, the forests were placed under
the administration of the forest SER
vice, he became assistant chief of the
section of reserve boundaries In
July OF the same year he accepted
the position of state forester of Call
iforna. He returned to the forest
service in July, 1906, as district In
srector. afterwards called chief in
spector, for oregon, Washington and
Alaska.