"John Eugene Sass, Ph. D., Assistant professor of botany," is the way the catalogue of Iowa State lists the man known to foresters as "Doc" Sass, or better still as just "Doc."

One section of a key to the personalities of the Botany Department might run something like this: Man; hair curly, blond; Dendrologist; Ecologist; jovial Scotsman: J. M. Aikman.

A quite detailed forest and waste land survey has been made in the state of Iowa through the influence of a man who is both an expert and an enthusiast.

The ten Civilian Conservation Corps camps on the Pisgah National Forest are scattered through its four ranger districts. Their location in each case has been determined by the major project assigned to that particular camp. In some instances the blocks of territory needing timber stand improvement take the camps to isolated mountain spots of high elevation. In others where road construction is the principal job one finds the camps on main highways and such accessible locations.