Diary, 1911 October 1-December 31

File — Box: 2, Volume: 10

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

In addition to his routine duties of patrolling, tallying cattle and office work, Woodbury assisted in a large reseeding project in the Forest. Attempts to organize a stock association continued and Woodbury helped draft a constitution and by-laws. The final weeks of the month were spent in St. George preparing annual reports.
6 October. After patrolling the range, Woodbury concluded that "by far the majority of the stock I saw [was] not permitted on this district."
10 October. Woodbury prepared a report on "Salting as a means of the Distribution of Cattle on a Range for the Protection of a Watershed."
11 October. "In the evening, I typewrited the answers to the questions in the Ranger's Correspondence Course on Schwappach's Forestry."
23 October. In preparation for the reseeding Woodbury modified a corn planter for use with pine seeds.
25-30 October. A crew of rangers including Woodbury planted pine seeds and one and two-year old seedlings.
31 October. While preparing to seed, Woodbury's horse fell on him. "Instead of backing he rared [sic] up and fell over backwards with me, lighting on my thigh and causing a bad flesh wound and hurting my hip some." The other rangers carried him to the ranger station where he remained in bed for three days.
22 November.. "I ...wrote a letter to [John] Raphael regarding the work done for the Forest Herbarium and began packing the specimens. "
29 November. Walter Bowler and Woodbury discussed the overgrazed condition of the district. They agreed the condition was not caused by wild stock and mustangs as many stockmen asserted. Woodbury estimated that only 75 head of mustangs could be found in the district. Bowler said "that the main trouble was the cattle owned in excess of what was permitted."
13 December. While in the St. George office Woodbury received his first Forest Service uniform.
16 December. A meeting of the grazers in St. George appointed a committee to draft a constitution for the stock association.
18 December. The constitutional committee met in the Forest Service office. Woodbury, who was working in the office, was not officially participating but the committee interrupted his work so often with questions that he finally "went in with them to help what I could." The committee was successful in drafting the constitution.
26 December. Woodbury "wrote a letter on the typewriter to the state fish & game commissioner" concerning elk range in the forest.

Dates

1911 October 1-December 31

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