The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
|. WATTS HEADS
FOREST REGION
Succeeds Earl w. Tinker, as
Regional Forester in North
Central Region.

The appointment of Lyle F. Watts as
regional forester for National Forest
Region Nine, with headquarters at Mil
waukee, Wis, was announced by F. A.
Silcox, chief of the forest service, u. S.
Department of Agriculture. Mr.. Watts
has been serving as director of the
Northern Rocky Mountain Forest Ex-
pertinent Station at MiSsoula, Montana
Mr.. Watts appointment climaxes an
outstanding career in forest work Born
November 18, 1890, in Cerro Gordo
gion which he now heads, for Region
Nine embraces the states of Iowa, Ill
inois, Minnesota, Missouri, N. Dakota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
He succeeds Earl W. Tinker, recently
named assistant chief of the forest SER
vice, in charge of state and private
forest cooperation, at Washington, D. c.
Regional Forester Watts is a graduate
of the School of Forestry at Iowa State
College, having received there the de-
grees of B. S. in Forestry and Master
of Forestry Since his graduation he
has been constantly engaged in forestry
work, including II years in the Federal
service, during which time he has had
a wide experience in scientific and adj
ministrative work. Before his per-
manent appointment to the forest SER
vice in 1913 he saw wide service in the
western forests in scientific research and
was in charge of the laboratory in forest
rNlo fo,.t 70 Ctoto COI1ocro 10
entered the forest service July l, 1913 as
a technical assistant on the Wyoming
National Forest
In 1915 and 1916, Mr. Watts directed
timber survey work on the Wyoming and
Wasatch National Forests In 1917 he
was assigned to the Cache National
Forest, Idaho, as forest examiner in
charge of forest planting at the Poca-
tello nursery. From May 1918 to April,
1920 he was deputy supervisor and later
forest supervisor on the Boise National
Forest, Idaho. From 1920 to 1926 he
served as supervisor of the Weiser and
Idaho National Forests, and on March
l, 1926 he was transferred to the re-
gional office at ogden, Utah as assist
ant in forest management.
Mr.. Watts left the forest service in
1923 to accept a position as Dean of the
School of forestry of the Utah Agricul-
tural College, a department which he
In 1929 he re-entered the
forest service to serve at the Inter
mountain Forest Experiment Station
On August l, 1881 he was named direc-
tor of the Northern Rocky Mountain
Forest Experiment Station.
AS regional forester for Region Nine,
he will be in charge of a region in
which a large program of forest re-
habiliation work is being carried on.
Last year, Region Nine led the nation
in the number of acres reforested-an
important phase of the task of putting
back into production vast areas of
timberland devastated by fire and axe.
Bookings, S. D.. RegiSter-Some idea
of the waste in some of the New Deal
can be gained from the eX-
ample of New York. The relief staff
there used 500 automobiles every day at
a rental of $500 per day. The cars
could have been paid in less than a
hundred days and still the second hand
value of the cars would remain. 1t
shows the business ability of some Of
Tho roIiof urnrEarc