Society of American Foresters to Hold Meeting in Calilornia

California will this year be host to the Society of A.merican Foresters at their thirty-second annual conference to be held in San Francisco, Dec. 12-16, followed by field trips from Los Angeles into the mountains of southern California on Dec. 17-18, according to announcement by Dr. E. P. Meinecke, chairman of the committee on arrangements.

The Society of American Foresters, which was organized in 190O, is 'composed of more.than 1,600 technically trained foresters and scientists of the United States and Canada in the employ of Federal and State forestry departments, private organizations and companies and forest schools and associations. The last time the annual meeting was held in the West was in California in 1927.

The first two days of the conference, on which'the Council meets, offer an opportunity for trips of great scenic and professional interest into the redwood and Sierra Nevada regions. The program for the general meetings on'Dec. 14-15, will bring together nationally known leaders for a frank discussion from all angles of the present status of the idea of conservation in forestry and of the outlook for the future. Dec. 16 will be devoted to a discussion of Society affairs. The annual banquet will be held in San Francisco.

Field trips in southern California will take the delegates into the timbered and chaparral regions of the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests where they will obtain first-hand information on the pressing water conservation and fire problems of the southland.

Many leading foresters from all parts of the United States have signified their intention to come to California for the annual conference.

F. S. Wallwork

Frank S. Wallwork, retired lumberman, died at his home in San Gabriel, Calif., early Friday morning, October 21. He was a native of Massachusetts and was 75 years of age. Funeral services were held at San Gabriel on Monday afternoon, October 24.

Mr. Wallwork was aonnected with the Boyle Heights Lumber Co. in Los Angeles for twenty-five years; the last fourteen years he was the owner of the business. lfe retired from business about three years ago when he sold the yard.

He is survived by his wife, and a work, who resides at Zearing,.Iowa.