HILL

The Willits Redwood Products Company tooli over the former logging and sawmill operation of the Sage Land.& Lumber Co*p"ny at Willits, California, as of July l',196''

The Sage Company has retired from the lumber manufacturing business and will function hereafter'as a timber holding company onlY.

Wiliits Redwoo{ Products Company was incorporated on June lI,1946. 'I-ogging operations are now being car' ,ied on and construction of a new sawmill to replace the former Sage mill is now under way. The new company is not afifiliated in any way with Sage Land & Lumber Company. -

Murr"g"*ent of Willits Redwood Products Cor4pa4y is vested in Russell H. Ells as president and production manager, and Harold Robinson as secretary-treasurer and in charge of purchases and sales' The offrce of the company will be maintained at the plant site in Willits, California' Lumber production of the new company will be sold through Hobbs Wall Lumber Company of San Francisco'

U. S, Forest Service Crecrtes Sepcrrcrte Wildlile Division and Announces New Grczing Chiel

The creation of d separate Division of Wildlife Management to handle conservation problems related to game ani' mals, birds and fish in the seventeen National Forests of California has been announced by S. B' Show, chief of the U. S. Forest Service in this State. Mr. Show 'also announced that a new assistant regional forester will direct range management activities.

Fred P. Cronemiller, assistant regional forester who has been in charge of the present Division of Wildlife and Range Management for the past eleven years, will be chief of the newly-created wildlife division.

Charles A. Joy, assistant regional forester in the Nqrth' ern Region headquarters of the U. S. Forest Service at Missoula, Montana,' will succeed Mr. Cronemiller as chief of the Division of Range Management' the Western Pine industrY feet or about 11'2 Per cent ol 1945;' will approximate 1600 million more than in the third quarter