Forester Retires

After completing over 40 years of federal service, Crosby A. Hoar 'OB, Assistant U.S. Regional Forester for 14 northeastern states, retired in December.

He was well known to many of the early forestry leaders, in the Middle West as well as the East. Upon receiving his master's degree in forestry at Yale in 1910, he joined the Forest Service, and after experience in the far West, in 1922 became senior district forest inspector in Duluth, Minn. Later he was made an assistant regional forester there. For the past 14 years he has headed up the cooperative statefederal forest fire prevention programs from Kentucky to Maine. After the hurricane of 1938 his headquarters were in Boston, where he helped to organize extensive fire-prevention operations. In 1945 Mr. Hoar was appointed assistant regional forester in charge of all the forestry programs in which the federal government cooperates with state forest services in the northeast.

A senior member in the Society of American Foresters, he resides in Philadelphia. He is married and has a daughter Nancy and a son John.