Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-05
R|NGLANO APPOINTED 10
ALBUQUERQUE
DISTRICT
Assistant Forester TO Take
Charge OF Forests Win
Headquarters
Here.
ARRIVAL EXPECTED
WITHIN SHORT TIME
Assignments OF Men Who viii
Have Charge of Six Districts In
the West Are Announced
From Washington
Office Today.

washington, Oct. 5.--The district |
foresters who will be in charge of the |
six field districts of the forest SER
vice. beginning January /, 1908. have |
been selected by United States Forest |
er Clifford Pinchot. They are as fol- |
lows: District 1, w. Il. Greeley, Mis- |
soula. Mont; District 2, Smith Riley, |
Denver. Colo; District 3. A. c. Ring |
land. Albuquerque. N. NJ; District 4, |
Clyde Leavitt, Ogden, Utah; District
5. f. E. Olmsted. san Francisco |
Calf; District 6, L. T. Allen, Port |
land, Ore.
1t was the original intention to To-
cate the headquarters of District 4 at
salt Lake. The change to Ogden was
made on account of advantages as
regards convenience and economy Of
living afforded by that city.
All the district foresters are men
of technical training and tried practi-
cal ability in forest matters. Most
of them have been members of the
! have zisen In the sArvlce through
successive promotions. They are ia
miliar with national forest work, with
the west and with the western people.
| Recently they have been dealing in
| their daily work with the technical
| 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 Cali
fornia, which is still his legal resi-
dence. He Is a graduate of the Uni
| versity OF California and of the yale
forest schools, receiving the degree of
mastery of forestry from the latter
in 1904. After working with the Unit
ed States geological survey he entered
the forest service through civil SER
vice examination July l, 1904. His
last position was that Of supervisor
of the Sequoia national forest, Califor-
MIA.
Mr.. Riley was born In Maryland In
lists. He received his education in
the Sherwood Friends school IN
Montgomery county and in the pubic
schools of the District OF Columbia.
He entered the forest service as a
student assistant in May. 1900, and
. has since held successfully the posi-
ms of forest assistant. forest In
t~. forest supervisor and asso'
ciate ckiel - 'A' '
Mr.. Rlngla.ia was born in Ne"
York in 1882. After graduating IRON
the Montclair high .sehooi ne pecan.'
student assistant in ne lo,eS' ~
vice in 1900. He has sil
positions of assistant fore. saI" =
forest assistant, chief OF the sac
reserve boundaries. chief of the "a,
tion of settlement. chief of the OF.
of lands and assistant forester.
Mr.. Leavitt is a native of Michigan,
where he was born In 1879. He en-
tered the forest service as a student
assistant In 1903, and has since passed
through the grades of forest assist
ant, assistant chief of the office of
, organization and chief of the office
OF organization.
Mr.. Olmstod was born in Hartford,
Conn. He was graduated from Yale
university In 1894. After followin Z
engineering and Typographical work
he spent the year 1S97-9S in the Har-
ward graduate school of forestry and
continued the study of forestry in
Germany and Indian in 1898 and 1899.
lie was appointed agent in the for
est service in 1900. Since then he
has held the positions of forest as
, sistant. chief of the division Of prod
ucts, chief of boundaries, chief in
} spector for the service and chief in
, spector for District g.
Mr.. Allen entered government ser
vice as a ranger under the general
} land office in 1898, the first year that
the reserves. as they were then
called, were under administration. In
1899 he entered the forest service as
a student assistant and became a field
assistant through civil service exam
} ination in 1900. In 1901 he was trans
} ferred TO the department OF the in
} terror and became special inspector
} OF timber sales and trespass cOntro-
? versies in the Black Hils. South Da-
, kota. In 1903 he was transferred
, back TO the forest service. when, N
) 1905. the forests were placed under
, the administration of the forest ser
, ~Ice, ne became assistant chief OF the
, sctlon OF reserve ooundaries In Ju' y
, the same year he accented the posi-.