WARD SHEPARD CALLED TO FOREST CAPTAINCY

As Director of the Harvard Forest for one year, beginning May 1, the University has appointed Ward Shepard '10, formerly of the Government Forest Service, and now special adviser on Indian affairs, land policy, and soil erosion.

The forest over which he will have charge consists of 2,300 acres of woodland in Petersham, about 70 miles from Cambridge.

It was acquired by Harvard in 1907 as an experimental station and laboratory for instruction and research in forestry and allied subjects, and is the oldest continuously cultivated tract of its kind in America.

Shepard was with the United States Forest Service from 1913 to 1930, serving as a forest ranger and supervisor in the Southwestern District of the U. S. Forest Service, as Assistant Chief of the government forestry research laboratories in Washington, and as Assistant Chief of the Branch of Public Relations of the Forest Service.