Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-29
HENRY s. GRAVES
KNOWS THE TREES
BY FIRST NAMES
Forest Guardian Here on Tour of
inspection of National
Reserves
BUSY ON PINCH0T POLICY
Leaves Today to Look Over Nur-
Sery Work on the An
geles Grounds
BUSY ON PINCH0T POLICY

IT ENRY S. GRAVES, chief forester
of the United States, friend of
Clifford Pinchot, and who just at
present is busily engaged in carrying
out the Pinchot policies, arrived in Los
Angeles yesterday, making this city
stopping place on his tour of the ma
tional forest reserves Of the west. He
was met here by f. e. Olmstead, dis
trict forester of California, whose head
quarters are in San Francisco, and by
r. II. Charlton, supervisor of the An
geles forest This morning he will
leave for the Angeles reserve to in
spect the planting work, Mr.. Olmstead
ana Mr.. Charlton accompanying him.
Only one day will be given to this in
spection, and tonight Mr. Graves and
Mr. Olmstead will go on to the Cleve-
land forest, returning later to visit the
various reserves in the northern part OF
the state.
IL it is true, as a recent writer de-
clared, that Clifford Pinchot knows
more trees by their first names than
any man in the country, it is also true
that Henry 5. Graves knows their gene
alogies-their family trees. so to speak.
His Introduction to forestry was gained
where Clifford Pinchot gained his-in
Germany, at the University of Munich,
and through practical work in the Ger
man forests.
APPEARANCES DECEPTIVE
Mr.. Graves doesn't look like an OUT
of-dOors man. That's where appear
| ances are deceptive, for he himself
would be first to admit that his knowl-
edge of tree-craft came not so much
from perusing the leaves of text books
as through studying the leaves of the
trees themselves. He Is below medium
height, of slight build, wiry and alert.
His eyes are unusually large, dark and
clear He gives the impression of q.
man who is sure of himself and who
gets what he wants, instead of content
ing himself with wanting what he gets.
| Mr.. Graves is a Yale man, havi1g
| graduated from that university jus
three years after Clifford Pinchot le
| it. He and Pinchot were friends tn n
and have remained friends ever since.
| Following his graduation he Went
abroad to study scientific forestry,
subject which at that time was not in
cluded in any American universities.
Returning to this country, he passed
two years in private work with Pinchot,
and subsequently went with him into
the government service, where he re-
mained until the Pinchot family en-
doWed a chair of forestry in Yale uni
versity. Upon the recommendation Of
MIR. Pinchot, to Graves was entrusted
the task of organizing the Yale forestry
school, and this he did with conspicu-
Gus success, remaining as the sci oofs
head until, following Clifford Pincnots
retirement, ne was made chief forester
by presidential appointment. He was
succeeded at Yale by Prof. j. w. Tou-
mey.
ATTENDED CONVENTION
This is his first visit to the Pacific
coast in his official capacity, though he
| ta fxYra aa nc
went into the government forests to
study the work in progress and the
possibilities of the future. Mr.. Graves
came here from Washington by way OF
New Orleans, where he stopped TO at
tend the convention of the Natlonai
Lumber Manufacturers association.
Between the Crescent and Angel cities
he stopped at Albuquerque, one of the
district offices, and at the Grand cam
yon of the Colorado
The time between now and next June
Mr.. Graves purposes to devote TO IN
specting the various national forests on
the Pacific coast and in the northwest.
on June he will be in Madison, Wis.
where he will formally open the new
| laboratory for forest service at the
| University of Wisconsin. This build
! ing was erected by the university, but
will be occupied by the national gov
ernment, Which will operate 1t in con-
nection with the university course IN
forestry. Lumbering is an important
industry in Wisconsin and nearby
states, and it is expected that the open
! ing exercises will be largely attended
Inv lumbermen as well as by students
of afforestation.
FOREST STUDY GROWS
At the Hayward hotel last night Mr..
Graves spoke of the growth of the
forestry idea in the United States with
in the past few years, saying that
when he had come out of college ana
| had decided to study forestry he had
found himself compelled to go abroad
for the simple reason that there was
then no recognized school of forestry
in the entire country. He added that
there are now a dozen or more uni
versities in which schools of forestry
are being conducted, Yale, Harvard,
the Universities of Michigan, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Washington, the
Michigan Agricultural college, the Col
lege of Colorado and Pennsylvania
state university among them. Despite
the fact that forestry is tremendously
important to California, however there
is none of these schools within TINS
state. Speaking of the plans for his
present trip, Mr.. Graves said;
Mr. Olmstead, Mr.. Charlton ana
myself will leave in the morning for
San Bernardino, where we Shall look
over the planting in the san Bernar-
dino nursery of the Angeles forest.
The trees recently planted there are
mostly eucalyptus, yellow pine, JEFF
frey pine, cedar and deodar, tree inn
norted from the East Indies. The work
in progress is largely experimental,
though some of the planting has been
done with an idea to conservation or
the water supply The Angeles forest
extends over about 100000 acres. 1t
was formed two years ago by the con-
solidation of the old San Gabriel and
San Bernardino forests.
GOING SOUTH
''From these Mr.. Olmstead and myself
will go on south to the Cleveland for
est, where we are experimenting with