Facts: - residence: australia - known for: scientific forestry - death date: 22 november 1970 - workplaces: transvaal papua , new guinea province , sierra leone , western australia , - author abbrev bot: lane-poole - birth date: 16 august 1885 - name: charles lane poole - death place: sydney , new south wales - birth place: sussex , england - alma mater: french national school of forestry , 1906 . Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of charles lane poole .
charles lane poole -lrb- 16 august 1885 -- 22 november 1970 -rrb- was an english australian forester who , introduced systematic , science-based forestry to western australia .he was the first superintendent of the western australian forests department , commonwealth 's first inspector-general of forests and trained many of australia 's professional foresters at australian forestry school which he established in canberra .when the western australia authorities would not heed his advice , he resigned in protest .the australian timber industry pressured the national government to hire lane poole to survey the existing timber resources in papua , then an australian territory , and later in new guinea .he spent three years surveying the papuan and new guinea forests , from the lowlands to the highlands ; he surveyed the country , measured trees , and collected specimens .although he did not find the stands of timber that could be harvested on a large scale , his extensive notes on such forest products as resin , oils and nuts helped identify other possible avenues of commercial development .after the missionary christian keyser , he was one of the first europeans to climb the saruwaged massif .